Quotes about writ
written practicality
My things really are written with an appalling lack of practicality! Johannes Brahms
writing men creating
How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating.
writing trying purity
If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.
writing age occupation
Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23. Johanna Lindsey
writing doe lines
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
writing men light
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.
writing history sin
Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
writing originality said
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
writing past history
Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
writing busy idleness
Writing is busy idleness.
writing fiction problem
One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in front of the public. Some writers aren't comfortable with that. I don't have a problem with that. Kathy Reichs
writing intimidating novel
I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one. Kurt Busiek
writing listening-to-music manuscripts
I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting. Khaled Hosseini
writing credibility aspiring-writers
The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read.
writing rewriting
Writing for me is largely about rewriting.
writing literature tradition
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
writing thinking romance
The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
writing stories way
I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.
writing nuts medicine
I don't know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I know about writing is very instinctive.
writing eighteen
Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it.
writing novel short-story
Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.
writing work-out worry
It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out.
writing successful whole-life
By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of my whole life, which was to write for a living.
writing choices waiting
All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.
writing night genre-is
I would give them (aspiring writers) the oldest advice in the craft: Read and write. Read a lot. Read new authors and established ones, read people whose work is in the same vein as yours and those whose genre is totally different. You've heard of chain-smokers. Writers, especially beginners, need to be chain-readers. And lastly, write every day. Write about things that get under your skin and keep you up at night.
writing rights stories
I am co-writing a screenplay now and I'm working on the rights to another story I want to do. So I plan to produce and direct. So, for me, I don't really feel that I am vulnerable to that sad baggage that comes with the business of filmmaking. Kerry Washington
writing people choices
When you leave here today and commence the next stage of your life, you can follow someone else's script, try to make choices that will make other people happy, avoid discomfort, do what is expected, and copy the status quo. Or you can look at all that you have accomplished today and use it as fuel to venture forth and write your own story. If you do, amazing things will take shape.
writing entertaining my-friends
Everything I write is based on something I've personally experienced, or things that my friends have experienced that I just find horribly entertaining. Kesha
writing ideas caught
I still haven't quite caught on to the idea of writing without dialogue. I like writing dialogue, and there's nothing wrong with dialogue in movies. Kenneth Lonergan
writing boys men
And here I am, instead of there. I'm sitting in this library, thousands of miles from my life, writing another letter I know I won't be able to send, no matter how hard I try and how much I want to. How did that boy making love behind that shed become this man writing this letter at this table? Jonathan Safran Foer
writing ideas important
The hardest part of writing is not to get the ideas but to remember, why it is important to get them.
writing self editing
The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible.
writing grandfather would-be
Only a few months into our marriage," writes the grandfather, "we started marking off areas in the apartment as 'Nothing Places,' in which one could be assured of complete privacy, we agreed that we never would look at the marked-off zones, that they would be nonexistent territories in the apartment in which one could temporarily cease to exist.