Quotes about writ
writing paper four
I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes. John Philip Sousa
writing character past
When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant. John Phillips
writing mirrors self
Since September 11, the Mirror has reached back to its roots, and decided, it seems, to be something of its old self again. I received a call asking if I would write for it again, which I've done. It's a pleasure to be able to do that. It's become an important antidote to a media that is, most of it, supportive of the establishment, some of it quite rabidly rightwing. The Mirror is breaking ranks, and that's good news. John Pilger
writing preacher knows
I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both. John Piper
writing stuff scripts
I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right. Martin McDonagh
writing thinking games
I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right.
writing beer loss
In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything. Martin Luther
writing appearance good-work
Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith.... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.
writing creative program
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. Mark Strand
writing want stuff
There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
writing thinking people
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
writing humor hard
It's very hard to write humor.
writing attention prove
Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.
writing numbers people
The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.
writing character people
When they do bring on new people, it's good for the show. It's like getting a new toy. The writers enjoy it because it's a whole new character that they can write for, one that they aren't used to writing for. They can try different things. Mark-Paul Gosselaar
writing thinking interesting
The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior. Marilyn Hacker
writing creative literature
Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.
writing giving energy
Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.
writing together different
Translation makes me look at how a poem is put together in a different way, without the personal investment of the poem I'm writing myself, but equally closely technically.
writing oddities ideas
The phenomenon of university creative writing programs doesn't exist in France. The whole idea is regarded as a novelty, or an oddity.
writing vocabulary example
There is a way in which all writing is connected. In a second language, for example, a workshop can liberate the students' use of the vocabulary they're acquiring.
writing law errors
Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway. Nick Harkaway
writing thinking together
My friends, we all improvise together usually. So we write what I think is a good script but always leave a lot of room to find stuff on the day; and we always do find something. That's the advantage to having actors who are, in their own right, writers. Nick Kroll
writing perspective important
I have things that I'm interested in, and I'm not really interested in writing about anything that I'm not interested in. But it's important to me to be able to see it from a different perspective, and add something new to the whole picture. Nick Cave
writing heart air
The writer who refuses to explore the darker regions of the heart will never be able to write convincingly about the wonder, the magic and the joy of love for just as goodness cannot be trusted unless it has breathed the same air as evil.
writing ideas people
Well, as anyone who actually writes knows, if you sit down and are prepared, then the ideas come. There's a lot of different ways people explain that, but, you know, I find that if I sit down and I prepare myself, generally things get done.
writing office long
I consider myself to be first and foremost a comic writer. The way I entertain myself - especially in those long and grim hours in the office - is to write stuff I find funny.
writing ideas scripts
I became a script writer with absolutely no idea of how to write a script whatsoever. I still feel a bit of an outsider in that regard. If I can maintain that approach to screenwriting, it can continue to be enjoyable.
writing equations ifs
If you took love out of the equation, I wouldn't know what else to write about.
writing levels beneficial
Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.
writing scene
You write a scene, and it works or it doesn't. It's immediate.
writing men mind
I get criticized for a lot of what I write about, but as far as I'm concerned I'm actually standing up and having a look at what goes on in the minds of men, and I have the authority to talk about it because I'm a man.
writing
I have to be able to see the thing that's going on that I'm writing about, or else it just doesn't make any sense to me.