Quotes about writ
writing self oxygen
And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it? William McDonough
writing reality thinking
Now the writer, I think, has the chance to live more than other people in the presence of ... reality. It is his business to find it and collect it and communicate it to the rest of us. Virginia Woolf
writing feels
I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.
writing thinking effort
The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
writing
To write is to inform against others. Violette Leduc
writing gigs firsts
I write in English. My first album came out in Italy, and I toured and did gigs. Violante Placido
writing happens
I like to write about wherever I happen to be. Woody Guthrie
writing
All you can write is what you see.
writing two long
Wilson was once asked how long it took him to write a speech. He answered, 'That depends. If I am to speak 10 minutes, I need a week for preparation. If 15 minutes, 3 days. If half hour, two days. If an hour, I am ready now.' Woodrow Wilson
writing men hands
The men who act stand nearer to the mass of man than the men who write; and it is in their hands that new thought gets its translation into the crude language of deeds.
writing writing-history lightning
Movies are like writing history with lightning.
writing giving zenith
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next. Saint Augustine
writing voice use
While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument. Yanni
writing speech able
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
writing frustration waiting
I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.
writing looks emotion
When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out. Yael Naim
writing special doe
There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Wole Soyinka
writing thinking play
Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
writing important gestation
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
writing down-and lessons
But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.
writing able sometimes
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work! Wislawa Szymborska
writing people rooms
I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it.
writing writing-poems absurdity
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
writing guts
All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content. Winston Graham
writing men forgiving
Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose. Winston Churchill
writing tyrants mistress
Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.
writing historical firsts
To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.
writing people inarticulate
People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing. William Trevor
writing
I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
writing people needs
I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.
writing opportunity fake
The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant. Will Shetterly
writing bad-writing firsts
It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.
writing principles throwing
There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.