Quotes about writ
writing house magic
I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now. Jimmy Page
writing plot things-are-not-what-they-seem
There is only one plot-things are not what they seem. Jim Thompson
writing two plot
There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem. Jim Thompson
writing thinking stuff
I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it. Loudon Wainwright III
writing careers growing
I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority. Loudon Wainwright III
writing generations want
I write whatever shows up. That's good enough for me. I'm part of the first generation that wants to still do original material and not tour around as an oldies act. Lou Reed
writing play rocks
I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels. Lou Reed
writing rock-and-roll rocks
All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics. Lou Reed
writing quiet-moments waiting
A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing ... Lois Wyse
writing letters making-time
Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes. Lois Wyse
writing cells vanity
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. Logan Pearsall Smith
writing gay wings
What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach. Logan Pearsall Smith
writing self schedules
Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule. Lois Lowry
writing ignorance evil
...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge? Lloyd Alexander
writing reality novel
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. Manuel Puig
writing order imagination
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free. Manuel Puig
writing fantasy memoir
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs. Manuel Puig
writing film cases
I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer. Manuel Puig
writing thinking reader
Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader. Manuel Puig
writing simple ukulele
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood. Manuel Puig
writing creativity color
When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize. Madeleine L'Engle
writing thinking want
If you want to write . . . keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair. Madeleine L'Engle
writing
You learn to write by doing it. Madeleine L'Engle
writing want needs
If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Madeleine L'Engle
writing discipline effort
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness. Madeleine L'Engle
writing artist way
When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen to his work, and so he often wrote better than he could write; Bach composed more deeply, more truly than he knew, Rembrandt's brush put more of the human spirit on canvas than Rembrandt could comprehend. When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens. Madeleine L'Engle
writing half littles
Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write. Madeleine L'Engle
writing given form
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit Madeleine L'Engle
writing world paint
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth. Madeleine L'Engle
writing past style
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past. Lytton Strachey
writing men creation-of-man
Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing. Lytton Strachey
writing doe world
The rule is: the word 'it's' (with apostrophe) stands for 'it is' or 'it has'. If the word does not stand for 'it is' or 'it has' then what you require is 'its'. This is extremely easy to grasp. Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation. No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, 'Good food at it's best', you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave. Lynne Truss
writing lightning good-food
If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave. Lynne Truss