Quotes about writ
writing thinking trying
The truth is that every writer, whether it's fiction or nonfiction, is trying to write something truly original and that's what I think I'm doing. Lisa Scottoline
writing thousand
I write a thousand words a day. Lisa See
writing people
People write to me all the time, and I write back.
writing ungrateful feelings
Our words had to be circumspect. We could not write anything too negative about our circumstances. This was tricky, since the very form of a married woman's letter needed to include the usual complaints -- that we were pathetic, powerless, worked to the bone, homesick, and sad. We were supposed to speak directly about our feelings without appearing ungrateful, no-account, or unfilial.
writing want
I just want to start writing, whether or not any of it is useable or marketable. Lisa Kudrow
writing asking-questions style
I learn so much from writing with other musicians, asking questions about their playing style and gear, and hanging out, too. Lisa Loeb
writing thinking goal
Mostly singing was cathartic, writing was cathartic, therapeutic. I don't think I had a goal, particularly, to sing or put it out there for anybody. Lisa Marie Presley
writing records intention
I sit with the intention to write a record.
writing writing-music process
I was always writing music anyway. I just sort of fell into it. Writing for me is a therapeutic process.
writing purging process
When I write, it's purging for me. It's a therapeutic process.
writing thinking ideas
I want to write, I want to sing. I want to do the same thing for others, have my music, hopefully do that for others one day, not realizing what I sort of had to climb. I had an idea a little bit, but I think that I underestimated the whole thing.
writing singing together
I always loved singing and writing poetry. I always loved music, and I've loved writing my whole life. When I put them together, it was probably in my early 20s where I put words to music for the first time.
writing night white
The Thickety is a sinister, magical debut with a marvelous and shocking heroine. J.A. White’s elegant writing and masterful plot kept me turning pages late into the night. Lisa McMann
writing thinking people
It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think. Johnny Cash
writing home next-day
An actor shouldn't have to leave the set and go home and write a bunch of stuff for a bunch of other people, the next day. I found it very unpleasant. Johnny Depp
writing guy want
When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads. John Turturro
writing people observation
A lot of my writing is basically about observation, and things that I've seen, either through personal experiences or the experiences of people around me, or society at large. John Trudell
writing thinking waiting
I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again. John Updike
writing eggs chickens
Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.
writing should-have voice
Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.
writing something-new
There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.
writing sea sailing
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
writing merit artistic
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.
writing trying busy
Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.
writing constant rewriting
Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
writing people personality
Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many people it's the height of, what they see, of ecstasy and poetry is in their sexual encounters. And furthermore, personality - human personality does not end in the bedroom, but persists.
writing humanity may
The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.
writing men doctors
A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature. John Taylor
writing way scripts
You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script. John Taylor Gatto
writing sunday opportunity
What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.' John Sentamu
writing men speak
Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak. John Selden
writing audience
You've got to write for your audience. John Ratzenberger
writing decision trying
I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling. John Ridley