Quotes about writ
writing life-is solitary
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply. Will Self
writing thinking building-things
I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.
writing people woods
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing. Will Rogers
writing old-friends ems
I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends, you know 'em the minute you see 'em.
writing trying modern-life
Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft can make a living out of trying to figure out what he said. Course perhaps he really haden't said anything, that's what makes it so hard to explain.
writing trying want
It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want them to say because they didn't experience it. Wes Borland
writing awkward want
Then little writings and recordings that thankfully continue to come up. I'm in this kind of wonderful, kind of awkward, off-putting, and strange position where there's nothing I want to do more than continue to make music, but the ways that I do things are not in tune with how I can do them commercially. Will Oldham
writing differences people
My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting difference’s of accepting, while I can be even more complex in the photographs and people can usually accept them within the framework of their own limitations or lack of limitations – there is no dictionary meaning… they can look up for the photographic image and allow it to confuse them. W. Eugene Smith
writing
I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?
writing adversity goal
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is. If you're not clear about this, then write it down, and rewrite it until the words express precisely what you are after. Every disadvantage has an equivalent advantage - if you'll take the trouble to find it. Learn to do that and you'll kick the stuffing out of adversity every time. W. Clement Stone
writing scripts found
I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically. W. C. Fields
writing thinking essentials
[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down. Virginia Woolf
writing men land
The good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and justly weigh every motive. For such an audience there is need neither of affectation nor of restraint. Sincerity is what they ask, detail, and volume; skill with the pen comes in conveniently, but brilliance is not necessary; genius is a hindrance even; and should you know your business and do it manfully, posterity will let you off mixing with great men, reporting famous affairs, or having lain with the first ladies in the land.
writing men perfect
Mr. Beerbohm in his way is perfect ... He has brought personality into literature, not unconsciously and impurely, but so consciously and purely that we do not know whether there is any relation between Max the essayist and Mr. Beerbohm the man. We only know that the spirit of personality permeates every word that he writes ... He is without doubt the prince of his profession.
writing pleasure certain
As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.
writing thinking mood
I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.
writing mind excellence
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
writing sight personality
We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.
writing tricks novel
It’s such a confidence trick, writing a novel. The main person you have to trick into confidence is yourself. This is hard to do alone. Zadie Smith
writing thinking feelings
It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word.
writing thinking opposites
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
writing want who-we-are
We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.
writing might reason
The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.
writing enemy trying
Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.
writing pages matter
Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.
writing avid waiting
I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see. Zosia Mamet
writing magic nobody-knows
Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started. Zora Neale Hurston
writing science curiosity
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
writing space people
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
writing looks architecture
Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless Zaha Hadid
writing pages way
I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing. Zack Snyder
writing land people
I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony. Zach Galifianakis
writing night trying
I try to write three jokes every day. I don't sit down and write them, it's just things that pop into my head. Then I'll go watch it fail onstage that night.