Quotes about writ
writing
When I'm writing with just an acoustic guitar, it can be for anyone. Dan Auerbach
writing mind knows
You know, there's always someone in mind when I'm writing. You know, it's all comes from somewhere inside.
writing car motorcycle
The reason I'm here today, the reason I own a brand new Harley-Davidson motorcycle and the reason I have a big log cabin and I got cars and all kinds of stuff is because I'm a writer and writers own everything. So you learn how to write. Dan Aykroyd
writing stories storytelling
I make no distinction between writing and storytelling; I've always wanted to tell stories. Damon Lindelof
writing ideas feelings
Hindsight is 20/20, but the moral of the writing is that when you're feeling very scared about something and convinced that it could be a massive disaster, that's exactly the idea that you should do.
writing apology thinking
I stand by the Lost finale. It's the story that we wanted to tell, and we told it. No excuses. No apologies. I look back on it as fondly as I look back on the process of writing the whole show. And while I'll always care what you think, I can't be a slave to it anymore. Here's why: I did it for me. I liked it. I was good at it. And I was really … I was alive.
writing taught opinion
I am simply of the opinion that you cannot be taught to write. You have to spend a lifetime in love with words. Craig Claiborne
writing firsts different
One thing I have a tendency to do is not write choruses, or write choruses that have different words. The first chorus will have different words than the second chorus. Craig Finn
writing thinking people
My style of lyric-writing is very specific and has a lot of details, and I think people react most to that.
writing thinking littles
Sometimes things reveal themselves to you a little bit. I think it was Joan Didion that said, "We write to find out what we're thinking." And sometimes that happens.
writing law california
Here in California, we passed a law against texting while driving. But there's no law preventing you from writing a letter while driving. Craig Ferguson
writing thinking trying
I think I'll be Scottish in every movie I write. They always try to talk me out of it, but Woody Allen is always a nebbish New Yorker. Why shouldn't I be a goofy Glaswegian?
writing night stuff
Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up - that stuff is very similar.
writing london imaginary
And every place and time an author writes about is imaginary, from Oz to Raymond Chandler's L.A. to Dickens's London. Connie Willis
writing want share
Writing is what we do. What else could I want in a life partner than someone who knows and shares what I do? Clark Blaise
writing lasts way
I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest. Clarice Lispector
writing long madness
I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.
writing my-own
I write to save someone's life, probably my own
writing long answers
So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
writing rocks steel
No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.
writing pigs self
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.
writing world way
Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world. Claire Messud
writing way groups
I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.
writing voice missing
I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.
writing thinking hands
I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand. Elizabeth Strout
writing thinking maine
In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.
writing perfect bail
The banks lobbied Washington so they could write the rules that got us into this crisis. They then lobbied Washington to get the money to bail them out. And then they are lobbying Washington to write the rules so they can get us into the next crisis. It's perfect circularity. Elizabeth Warren
writing may firsts
It's one of the things writing students don't understand. They write a first draft and are quite disappointed, or often should be disappointed. They don't understand that they have merely begun, and that they may be merely beginning even in the second or third draft. Elizabeth Hardwick
writing research routine
I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully pure, integral relationship; the awkwardness is necessary and inevitable.
writing views government
If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world. Elizabeth Janeway
writing long favors
As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.
writing pressure headlines
If you only have one shot at writing a headline, there's a lot of pressure. Eli Pariser
writing giving people
Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before. Eli Broad