Quotes about writ
writing talking voice
Dialogue saves me. I love writing the conversations between my paper people. For some reason, that is the easiest thing for me. It's like I am a transcriptionist for the voices in my head. I can hear them talking (mentally) and have a gift for getting it on the page. Kim Smith
writing emotional feelings
My experiences always influence my writing, but usually only on an emotional level. I have experienced death of a family member and it's easy to dredge up those feelings and get them on the page.
writing ideas creating
My advice to would-be young authors is to read a lot, write a lot, and not worry about creating a finished product. Keeping a journal is not a bad idea either. Kevin Henkes
writing lunch hours
Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too. Kevin J. Anderson
writing issues office
For a feature in next month's issue of Prog magazine, the photographer spent many hours setting up a photo shoot of me with part of my music collection in my writing office. Since I do most of my writing outside in nature, we felt this shot was most representative.
writing literature firsts
We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.
writing years income
My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way.
writing wife promotion
My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life.
writing character stories
Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it. Kevin James
writing trying adequate
Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns. Kevin Hart
writing moguls produce
I wanna produce, write, and direct my own projects, and eventually fund them. I wanna be a mogul.
writing trying anxious
As soon as we try to write the simplest sentence about God, we find ourselves in anxious perplexities, but when we stop trying to write about God and talk with God, God is there and we can talk with God.
writing funny-things notes
I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.
writing two long
After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework that first draft on a computer. Usually that involves expansion: filling in and adding to, but trying not to lose the spontaneous, direct sound. I use that first draft as a touchstone to make sure everything else in that section has the same sound, the same tone and impression of spontaneity. Kent Haruf
writing style fundamentals
However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world. Kenzaburo Oe
writing thinking cosmos
I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society — with the cosmos. To link me with my family to the cosmos, that is easy, because all literature has some mystic tendency. So when we write about our family, we can link ourselves to the cosmos.
writing thinking perfect
Right now I think I'm the smartest I've ever been. I'm doing everything great now and everything perfect. Like with this taxes stuff. I'm getting better at that. I'm making sure everything is a write-off. Every single thing. Kendra Wilkinson
writing pyramids slave-ships
I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs Kendrick Lamar
writing rights
My rights, my wrongs, I write ‘til I’m right with God.
writing pyramids write-your-own
Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.
writing hands people
If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen...where can I get a pen like this so I can write great stories?' Well, I am just a pen in the hands of the Lord. He is the author. All praise should go to him. Keith Green
writing thinking appreciate
I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it. Katy Perry
writing people paint
... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them. Kathleen Winsor
writing passion world
What I used to do with a passion, foolishly and vainly imagining I would change the world for the better, I no longer tolerate in myself or anyone else. But draw, always draw - and WRITE. Ralph Steadman
writing
I blundered into writing. Ralph Ellison
writing acceptance agony
I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.
writing past shadow
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
writing people serial-killer
I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things. Ralph Fiennes
writing feelings feeling-great
I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great. Raine Maida
writing done saws
Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
writing character creating
You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio choices and producer choices, but when you're writing it, you're creating your own little world in your head, peopled with your little characters. No one is in there monkeying with it, at least not at first - though they will. With this and the other projects I'm working on, it'll have to be given away, and it'll have to be someone else's property. Rainn Wilson
writing hands too-much
But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write--he was too much to lose. Everything she felt for him was too hot to touch. Rainbow Rowell
writing anxiety stories
I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.