Quotes about writ
writing office
The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don't have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all. Nick Cave
writing
Anything that I'm doing I'm writing specifically for a particular project.
writing years want
I do what I want to do. I see where my enthusiasm is. Over the years, my techniques expanded. That's how the writing came out. Nick Bantock
writing long letters
Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts
writing stories
Don't ever let anyone else write your story for you. Nick Carter
writing effort paradox
All my writing has been an effort to sort out the paradoxes of my life. Nancy Friday
writing names who-i-am
The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about. Nana Visitor
writing brain down-and
I never sit down and write. I just sorta let things form in my brain. Mose Allison
writing first-love love-is
My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects. Missy Elliot
writing used
I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote that?" Ozzy Osbourne
writing people community
There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'
writing thinking scary
I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, Let's just write some scary music.
writing years notes
Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!
writing dark men
Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did. P. G. Wodehouse
writing stories feels
I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.
writing light sometimes
I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that - humorists they are sometimes called - are looked down upon by the intelligentsia and sneered at.
writing typewriters curse
I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
writing stories knows
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
writing thinking want
I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much for it as he can, but that is a very different thing from writing for money.
writing stories narrative
Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how many times I have reread the Wolfe stories, but plenty. I know exactly what is coming and how it is all going to end, but it doesn't matter. That's writing.
writing men careers
I was writing a story, 'The Artistic Career of Corky,' about two young men, Bertie Wooster and his friend Corky, getting into a lot of trouble, and neither of them had brains enough to get out of the trouble. I thought: Well, how can I get them out? And I thought: Suppose one of them had an omniscient valet?
writing men echoes
It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.
writing want
I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.
writing years agamemnon
Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti, Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.] Ovid
writing giving dumb
This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]
writing comedian trying
As a comedian, I'm like one of those on-the-scene reporters. I will actually go and try to find disasters so I can write jokes as the disasters unfold. Paul Provenza
writing littles wanted
I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat. Paul Engle
writing thinking water
Writing is like this -- you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth.
writing rewriting
Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.
writing college missing
But maybe it's up the hills or under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.
writing comedian kind
I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself. Paul Feig
writing sides thieves
Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade. Paul Bowles
writing interesting trying
When you start writing things to try to persuade someone who's not already part of your guild or your profession that something is interesting, it forces you to ask yourself, "Well, why is this interesting?" Paul Bloom