Quotes about writ
writing play wish
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.' Barbra Streisand
writing winning thinking
There's been no nepotism in my acting artistic life, but I think it's been pretty clear in my writing life. I knew what a pantoum was at age 11 - I knew form - therefore I would win the poetry contest. But I also realized that I would never be a great writer. Aya Cash
writing lines want
I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing. Avicii
writing hard-times writing-music
I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour. Avicii
writing levels lasts
I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it. Axl Rose
writing grandmother iron
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious.... The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
writing people realizing
I don't know if people realize how much I tour and how much time I spend writing, but I really enjoy it. Avril Lavigne
writing home piano
Whenever I'm done with an album cycle, I still wanna write music. If I'm bored when I'm at home, which never happens, my first instinct is to go to the piano and bang something out. Avril Lavigne
writing thinking worry
I'm just coming out and I'm going to clearly be myself - I write what I feel, I never worry what others think. Avril Lavigne
writing who-i-am years
Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage. Arthur Godfrey
writing past men
As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past. Arthur Golden
writing simple men
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing. Arthur Golden
writing done facts
Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else. Arthur Conan Doyle
writing want copies
If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are. Arthur Conan Doyle
writers-and-writing writing-by-writers
Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words. Arthur Bryant
writing thinking people
Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think. Arthur Brisbane
writing sadness goal
There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends. Arthur C. Clarke
writing thinking answers
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. Arthur C. Clarke
writing play judging
Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one. Anton Chekhov
writing literature young
It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook. Anton Chekhov
writing artist two
Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author. Anton Chekhov
writing paper should
A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious. Anton Chekhov
writing play theatre
The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard. Anton Chekhov
writing long mind
I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks. Anton Chekhov
writing important eternal
Write only of what is important and eternal. Anton Chekhov
writing play judging
One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions, Anton Chekhov
writing communes conscience
I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write. Anton Chekhov
writing simple men
When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me. Anton Chekhov
writing want example
Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers. Anton Chekhov
writing break fingers
Write, write, write-till your fingers break. Anton Chekhov
writing foolish thinker
He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things. Anton Chekhov
writing thinking soul
It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul. Anton Chekhov
writing intelligent men
If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am lost, I am lost; there is no doubt of that. Anton Chekhov