Quotes about writ
writing quality literature
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out. Virginia Woolf
writing prose-and-poetry poetry-is
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
writing men hygiene
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
writing voice people
What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.
writing doe finals
Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.
writing plot rhythm
I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.
writing eye practice
The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.
writing darkness existence
When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
writing way wells
The way to write well is to live intensely.
writing people silence
I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.
writing together crafts
If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.
writing world
All the time she writing the world had continued.
writing skills keys
It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen. William Bernbach
writing play needs
anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play. Wendy Wasserstein
writing successful intelligent
I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women of my own generation who were successful, intelligent, coming to power and suddenly in the public arena. I started to think about what they are allowed and what they are not allowed.
writing character long
I very much write from characters. Those people start speaking, and then I have them in the house with me and I live with them. Then at some point, it's time to get them out of the house. You can only live with someone like Dr. Georgeous Teitelbaum from THE SISTERS ROSENSWEIG for so long, and then it's time for her to go. But it is very like having the company of these people and trying to craft them in some way into a story.
writing organization together
There's more substance in my prose and my poetry than in all my films together. Writing is a more direct way of expressing yourself because, in cinema, you always have finances, organization, actors, technical apparatus and all that stuff coming in between. Werner Herzog
writing editing creating
I like and I love everything that has to do with cinema: writing, directing, editing, creating music, and even acting.
writing writing-music connections
I'm learning more about life when I'm playing too, and writing music. I'm learning more about life, the connection. Wayne Shorter
writing play want
Play and write music the way you want the world to be.
writing wanted
I wanted so much to write that I couldn't write a word. Walker Evans
writing thinking people
I think I'm trying to write truthfully about life, and naturalism, or the way people normally talk in movies, is a convention. It's not the way people talk in life at all. Wallace Shawn
writing thinking average
I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
writing views years
I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwrights never need to write from the place where they are.
writing play ideas
When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
writing thinking years
I don't have an idea for a play until after I've finished writing it. I write first, and come up with what it's about later. My technique could be compared to having a large canvas and coming in every day and putting a dot on it somewhere, and after several years - literally - I begin to say, That reminds me of an elephant, so I think I'll make it one.
writing common instance
Who says one instance of writing has anything in common with another instance?
writing thinking play
For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.
writing physicians medical
But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of. Walker Percy
writing titles metaphor
A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
writing materials ifs
Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to. Wallace Stegner
writing heart cutting
A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.
writing fiction peculiar
It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.