Quotes about writ
writing home past
If I'm at home on my own and the writing isn't going well, I clean my house. And there have been times in the past few years when my house has looked really clean. Peter Mullan
writing special disease
Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease. Peter Abelard
writing play guy
To be a writer was always my greatest aim. I remember writing a play about Guy Fawkes when I was 10. I suppose it's significant, at least to me, that my first work should be about a historical figure. Peter Ackroyd
writing piano division
Why should a novelist not also be a historian? To force unnatural divisions within the English language is to work against its capacious and accommodating nature. To expect a writer to produce only novels, or only histories, is equivalent to demanding from a composer that he or she write only string quartets or piano sonatas.
writing better-than-you felt
And I could write it better than you ever felt it. Pete Wentz
writing ideas long
I love writing, but I have that E. E. Cummings idea that as long as you stay inside the rules of your own world, it doesn't matter what it is.
writing rocks rock-and-roll
The problem for me, still today, is that I write purely with one dramatic structure and that is the rite of passage. I'm not really skilled in any other. Rock and roll itself can be described as music to accompany the rite of passage. Pete Townshend
writing thinking firsts
Good old Pete. That's me. But I find it hard to think of myself in the first person when I'm writing about The Who. So many times he has willingly sat down to write about the good old Who. Isn't he too old to masturbate?
writing men political
Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.
writing want knows
If you don't want anyone to know anything about you, don't write anything.
writing discipline finest
Songwriting is best. It's the hardest ... finest ... tightest. It also requires the most discipline.
writing ideas lucky
Songwriters can’t explain. You get an idea and you don’t know where it’s come from. And if you’re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down. Pete Seeger
writing luck alchemist
If I could, I'd write a huge encyclopedia just about the words luck and coincidence Paulo Coelho
writing thinking soul
I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.
writing naked form
Writing is a socially acceptable form of getting naked in public
writing situation print
But, right now, the situation is that almost all of my writing is out of print. Peter Sotos
writing thinking details
I think in any writing you're paying attention to detail. Peter Matthiessen
writing sweat people
I'm not one of those people who's so blinded by my own work and my sweat. It's kind of risky writing a memoir when you're really part of a larger universe. Questlove
writing writing-well wells
By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly. Quintilian
writing men hands
Men of quality are in the wrong to undervalue, as they often do, the practise of a fair and quick hand in writing; for it is no immaterial accomplishment.
writing doe results
From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.
writing impossible should
One should aim not at being possible to understand, but at being impossible to misunderstand.
writing language introducing
Prune what is turgid, elevate what is commonplace, arrange what is disorderly, introduce rhythm where the language is harsh, modify where it is too absolute.
writing wells
Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.
writing impossible should
We should not write so that it is possible for the reader to understand us, but so that it is impossible for him to misunderstand us.
writing character talking
Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales. R. A. Salvatore
writing adventure people
The most common criticism that I've seen is that I write "popcorn fantasy": lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
writing fantasy-novels fantasy
No one will ever write a fantasy novel better than The Hobbit.
writing quitting ifs
If you can quit, then quit. If you can't quit, you're a writer.
writing dna stuff
I got to trumpet, finally. That's why I love to write for brass, and [Count] Basie and [Frank] Sinatra and all that stuff, 'cause that's just like part of my DNA. Quincy Jones
writing realist ifs
If you describe things as better than they are, you are considered to be a romantic; if you describe things as worse than they are, you will be called a realist; and if you describe things exactly as they are, you will be thought of as a satirist. Quentin Crisp
writing hands brain
I try not to get analytical in the writing process. I try to just kind of keep the flow from my brain to my hand as far as the pen is concerned and go with the moment and go with my guts. Quentin Tarantino
writing men thinking
I'm very much a man of the moment. I can think about an idea for a year, two years, even four years all right, but what ever is going on with me the moment I write is gonna work it's way into the piece.