Quotes about writ
writing cells long
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive-then don't be a writer. Graham Swift
writing years stories
Ive tried to write deep and serious. I spent years working to write a story that would make my writing group cry. Jim C. Hines
writing wizards littles
When I started, I was pretty sure I was going to be writing some goofy little wizard novels that might make me some part-time money and would hopefully lead to something I could do better. Jim Butcher
writing littles becoming
Life is easier when you can write off others as monsters, demon, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared the thing is you can't do that without becoming them, just a little.
writing piano hymns
It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write. Jessi Colter
writing
I don't have the patience to sit and write. Jesse Ventura
writing actors want
Good actors never use the script unless it's amazing writing. All the good actors I've worked with, they all say whatever they want to say. Jessica Alba
writing self expression
There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression. H. P. Lovecraft
writing drug tonight
I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.
writing people ordinary
I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them.
writing ambition literature
Nothing leads so straight to futility as literary ambitions without systematic knowledge. H. G. Wells
writing ideas
I write to cover a frame of ideas.
writing
After so many deaths I live and write; George Herbert
writing two praise
To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.
writing thinking mind
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Jean de la Bruyere
writing may kind
Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.
writing men merit
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.
writing genius mere
It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
writing simple expression
A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.
writing justice perfection
He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.
writing advice pedants
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
writing kind knows
What's kind of weird is that when I'm writing I don't know where I'm going to go. Jazmine Sullivan
writing kind curious
As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the listener, too.
writing talent
Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write. Jean Anouilh
writing secret life-is
The writing life is a secret life, wither we admit it or not. Jayne Anne Phillips
writing wish more-time
I wish I had more time to write.
writing weight lines
I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.
writing suspense-novels violence
I read what I like to write: romantic suspense. I also love thrillers and novels of suspense, but I can't handle extreme violence and torture. Jayne Ann Krentz
writing records firsts
I am a big Brian Eno fan - the first few Brian Eno records are just absolute gibberish and he came up with a lot of lyrics by writing down loads and loads of random sentences and streams, and I find meaning in that music, even though he'd probably say it's absolute gibberish. Jay Watson
writing i-can
I can't write - out of all the things it takes to make music, lyrics are the thing I'm by far the shittiest at.
writing piano play
I cannot write music. I cannot play the piano. Jayne Meadows
writing challenges wake-up
For me, the challenge is just making great albums, because talent - and writing in general - is not tangible. There's no expiration date on it. At the same time, you might wake up tomorrow and be unable to write music. Jay-Z
writing men why-not
Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?