Quotes about writ
writing thinking childhood
When I write about my childhood I think, oh my God, how did I ever get from there to here? Not that any great thing has happened to me. But I felt so tiny, so lost. Paul Theroux
writing sick long
People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.
writing persons activity
Writing ... is practically the only activity a person can do that is not competitive.
writing hong-kong stories
When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there.
writing former-friends former
You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.
writing order unhappy
I know there are writers who feel unhappy with domesticity and who even manufacture domestic turmoil in order to have something to write about. With me, though, the happier I feel, the better I write.
writing who-i-am people
I never stay with people and I never look people up when I travel. I depend more on just chance meetings. The advantage is that people don't know who I am. I meet people casually and they're not doing me a big favor because I'm going to write something.
writing kind surprise
The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks.
writing nerves
Writing is pretty crummy on the nerves.
writing capable
The more you write, the more you're capable of writing.
writing needs stories
Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story. Paul Kagame
writing cutting hair
If the guy that writes you checks says cut your hair, off to the barber shop you go. That's that. Paul Konerko
writing taught jazz
Writing is like jazz. It can be learned, but it can't be taught. Paul Desmond
writing trying asking
That was asking a lot of my readers, I realized, but I was trying to write the novel I would most enjoy decoding. Paul Di Filippo
writing men poetry
I do not see how a man can work on the frontiers of physics and write poetry at the same time. They are in opposition. In science you want to say something that nobody knew before, in words which everyone can understand. In poetry you are bound to say ... something that everyone knows already in words that nobody can understand. Commenting to him about the poetry J. Robert Oppenheimer wrote. Paul Dirac
writing thinking personal-things
I think writing is a much more personal thing. Patrick Stump
writing singing
He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.
writing self scary-stories
There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies) Patrick Carman
writing ears melody
I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs. Patrick Carney
writing reality tv-shows
I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
writing digging harder
Writing isn't hard - no harder than ditch digging. Patrick Dennis
writing kissing epic
whether they'll write the story of my life as a tragedy or an epic fantasy... I was wondering if it was going to be a kiss at the end, or sad music and a sweeping camera shot over the fields I once roamed freely. I'm hoping for the kiss, but expecting the sweeping camera shot. Maggie Stiefvater
writing people belief
I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.
writing like-you ends
In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
writing psychology actors
If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology. Maddie Hasson
writing studios
I write in the studio. Macy Gray
writing thinking film
I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing. Mackenzie Astin
writing thinking artist
I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line. Macklemore
writing guitar play
I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings
writing would-be genius
Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all. Madame de Stael
writing unique play
Each play I write has its own unique origin story. Lynn Nottage
writing needs release
I need a release from whatever I'm writing.
writing two long
I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags. Haruki Murakami