Quotes about writ
writing attention answers
Since I speak and write about this a good deal, I am often asked at public meetings, in what sometimes seems to me a rather prurient way, whether I myself or my family have 'ever been threatened' by jihadists. My answer is that yes, I have, and so has everyone else in the audience, if they have paid enough attention to the relevant bin-Ladenist broadcasts to notice the fact. Christopher Hitchens
writing editors praise
Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.
writing thinking self
I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.
writing apologizing forget
Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.
writing eye depth
Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it." Here we have a passage that designates the phenomenological direction I myself pursue. The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold. Gaston Bachelard
writing sound divorced
In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.
writing want world
The words of the world want to make sentences.
writing texas play
Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its many incarnations and under various leaders, they have demonstrated the highest qualities of musicianship imaginable, plus a willingness to balance their big band tradition with creative exploration. Astounding ensemble work, insightful interpretations of the arrangements, imaginative writing, and above all, a loving attention to musicality . . . these people play beautifully. Gary Burton
writing poetry making-love
Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love. Gao Xingjian
writing reality self
If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his observations will far surpass objective descriptions of reality.
writing profound want
I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.
writing people survival
For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.
writing self literature
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
writing suffering ease
Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
writing thinking thinker
Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them. Friedrich Nietzsche
writing imagination might
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. Franklin P. Adams
writing speech abbreviations
Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing. Franz Grillparzer
writing imagination tragedy
I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.
writing land who-i-am
Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
writing law people
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Frank Zappa
writing oil needs
The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do now know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only know that they are not being met. If you want to find out the circumference of an oil drop, you can use lycopodium powder. That’s what I’ll find. A tub of lycopodium powder, and I will sprinkle it on to my needs and find out how large they are. Then when I meet someone I can write up the experiment and show them what they have to take on. Jeanette Winterson
writing self literature
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
writing written
Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
writing fables break
I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
writing cutting thinking
I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like the way the Arabs weave rugs. They don't stop. They just cut them off at a certain spot on the loom. There is no particular beginning or end.
writing discipline creative
Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
writing thinking years
I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.
writing self arrogant
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant.
writing goes-on
I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.
writing fiction stories
Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
writing thinking way
The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez, they're not bound in the same sort of way. They don't come out of the classic 19th-century novel, which is where all the problems start. 19th-century novels are fabulous and we should all read them, but we shouldn't write them.
writing two kind
...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.
writing band titles
For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles. Jim Capaldi