Quotes about writ
writing climate kind
Big writers become a kind of shared climate. Adam Gopnik
writing joy said
Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
writing letters knows
You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter. Ada Leverson
writing life-is unpredictable
The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance. Abraham Joshua Heschel
writing artist self
Musicians must make music, artists must paint, poets must write if they are to be ultimately at peace with themselves. What human beings can be, they must be. They must be true to their own nature. This need we may call self-actualization. Abraham Maslow
writing lazy sermons
I could write shorter sermons but when I get started I'm too lazy to stop Abraham Lincoln
writing people recycling
I prefer to write music for family films. I like people. Alex North
writing not-good-enough levels
I write music just for me. I'm certainly not good enough to do it on any kind of a level but I enjoy that time because it's quiet. Alex O'Loughlin
writing acting different
For me writing and acting all comes out of the same place, a compulsion to review and connect to something. For me they are more similar than different. Aleksa Palladino
writing ideas down-and
I've now learned how to do it, I can write anywhere. I'm the type of person that will get a random idea and then I'll have to write it down and then continue on it. It can be anywhere. It doesn't have to be a set place. Alessia Cara
writing film hard
It's very hard to write music for a film because you're writing about somebody else's experience. Alessandro Nivola
writing effort noble
No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming out of inner necessity. Aleksandar Hemon
writing literature assumption
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.
writing fighting different
For a fight to be productive, or at least relevant, writers should fight over different demands they put upon writing (as an individual, private act) and literature (a network of relations in which we are all involved).
writing thinking years
I'm not nervous if I think about something for nine years and then I don't write it. Even if it fades it doesn't concern me. It'll come back if it's worth it.
writing bad-writing language
There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.
writing agency different
Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of ethical or moral drive, even if you are unaware of it.
writing related
To write has to be related to a drive inside.
writing fiction literature
The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.
writing long retreat
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
writing sometimes said
Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."
writing brain fiction
I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.
writing secret firsts
The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
writer
I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh, that dialogue's wrong,' or 'That character doesn't look like that.' That would be insufferable. Alan Moore
writers
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness. Charlaine Harris
writers written
I think that fiction writers can write about anyone. If you are writing a character, and the only thing they are to you is their otherness, then you haven't written a character.
written
Something's that written out is okay, but it's not always a clear indication of what a person means. Debbie Harry
writing order obsession
I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing. Cynthia Ozick
writing humanity
Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.
writing secret lines
I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.
writing acts-of-courage ifs
If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.
writing watches world
A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out. Cyril Connolly
writing years promise
Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their promise. Promise is like the mediaeval hangman who after settling the noose, pushed his victim off the platform and jumped on his back, his weight acting a drop while his jockeying arms prevented the unfortunate from loosening the rope. When he judged him dead he dropped to the ground.