Quotes about writ
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. Woodrow Wilson
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.
writing creativity academia
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because of various problems with the authorities I wasn't able to pull that one off. A lifetime of idleness in academia would have really suited me. So I was thrown out, as it were. Other than that, there seemed no possible idle occupations, so writing . . . although writing isn't exactly idleness. There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor. Will Self
writing thinking people
The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile.
writing waking firsts
I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.
writing driven feels
I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.
writing trying islam
I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at the face in the hijab - and try to imagine the one beneath the niqab - before you depersonalise its wearer.
writing fiction remember
I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.
writing dark landscape
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.
writing views play
In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays.
writing views might
I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y in view - whether it's a reader, a prize or a sale.