Quotes about writ
writing thinking oboes
I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder. Gavin Bryars
writing thinking turns
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work Gay Talese
writing college example
For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work
writing junkie
I'm like a junkie for writing. Gavin DeGraw
writing school college
I always knew when I graduated from high school I’d go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from . . . I just wanted to study literature and writing. Gaby Hoffmann
writing discovery feelings
When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings. Gail Carson Levine
writing bores-you ems
If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.
writing play ideas
You see, writing down your meanderings gets something started deep in the recesses of your brain. That distant part of your mind knows that you want to write stories or poems or plays and not endless jabber, and it will get to work. It may take a while. You may have to write this stuff for hours or days or weeks, but eventually that subterranean part of your brain will come through and begin to send you ideas.
writing sometimes my-favorite
I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing.
writing skills trying
Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It's not like a trumpet where you have to get some skill before you can even produce a sound. It's misleading because it's hard to make stories. It seems like it should be easy to do but it's not. The more you write, the better you're going to get. Write and write and write. Try not to be hard on yourself.
writing process hardest
I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
writing people narrative
Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative. Gail Collins
writing government sight
I write about how in Midland, the mayor instituted water conservation measures like restrictions on car washing. He made a point though that they were only "suggestions" and not government telling people what to do. But then his constituents got very ticked off at the sight of their neighbors breaking the rules and demanded that they be made into actual laws with penalties.
writing grandmother florida
Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. Gabrielle Zevin
writing people perfect
The most important thing in writing process is the vibe cause if you on a roll, if you feel it you just feel it. And it's all about the atmosphere, the people around you, you know, everything. You got to be clear headed in that and have a perfect atmosphere. French Montana
writing night keys
A secretary is not a thing Wound by key, pulled by string. Her pad is to write in, And not spend the night in, If that's what you plan to enjoy. Frank Loesser
writing produce i-can
Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct. Frank Langella
writing performing
I'm more interested in writing than in performing. Frank McCourt
writing
I like writing about friends. Julie Garwood
writing faces comfort
Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face. Joy Williams
writing wings reader
The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness — those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.
writing
One writes to find words' meanings.
writing process writing-process
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.
writing grace doe
Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.
writing care these-days
It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.
writing dark light
A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.
writing play want
It seemed like the right time. You reach a point when you say to yourself, ‘Do I want to keep doing this?’ There are other things on my plate I want to do — I’ve been writing a play, I’ve been neglecting my standup. Joy Behar
writing men cricket
I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man. Joseph O'Neill
writing want madness
If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.
writing parasites critics
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write. Joseph Priestley
writing self imagination
For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable. Joyce Carol Oates
writing light people
When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation. Justin Cronin
writing iowa fiction
I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.