Quotes about writ
writing looks able
I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the courage to look happiness in the face and write about it,' which is what I wanted to be able to do. Kenneth Koch
writing joy missing
The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour. Ken Bruen
writing character thinking
I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult. Ken Follett
writing stories spare-time
I started writing stories in my spare time.
writing cutting long
We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.
writing love-is views
I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is great. But then, when I do stand-up, I love getting my own point of view out there. Kathy Griffin
writing different letters
Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail. Keanu Reeves
writing thinking literature
What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now. Kazuo Ishiguro
writing ivory people
I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.
writing doe energy
There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.
writing past thinking
There's still a part of me that thinks I have to write a really good novel. I'm not trying to say I'm not happy with the novels I've written in the past. But it always feels to me like there's another one that I have to write that will really say what I want to say, and really paint this world that I can see hazily in my head.
writing ifs
I prefer writing for myself to perform, I guess. But if I had to choose, I'd rather perform in someone's movie than write a movie for someone else. Kristen Schaal
writing talking actors
It's weird talking about projects as an actor because you're so in them. I would prefer to write a paper and deliver it to everyone via e-mail. Kristen Stewart
writing skills want
I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell.
writing feelings ambitious
I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged. Koren Zailckas
writing ideas cracks
I dont know where the idea originated that memoir writing is cathartic. For me, its always felt like playing my own neurosurgeon, sans anesthesia. As a memoirist, you have to crack your head open and examine every uncomfortable thing in there.
writing hard
It's hard to write music for specific things, because I'm always writing just to write. Kris Allen
writing forever
Writing music and playing guitar was really what I wanted to do forever.
writing thinking rapper
I think I write more outspoken than the average rapper. Kool Keith
writing men sides
I'm not against women. I'm not against men. I just write about me telling my side of how I would say something.
writing records sexiest
I write the most sexiest records out.
writing people focus
I try not to focus on what people say too much because there's nothing I can do about it. All I can do is focus on staying true to the style of music I write and sing because that is the only way it's going to come off as honest. Kip Moore
writing littles annoying
If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing. Kingsley Amis
writing simple government
Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was lost through hopelessly obscure wording. When a person writes to the Veterans Administration, he is entitled to an easily understood, frank, and courteous reply. If our replies cannot be understood, they are not only not worth writing, but they simply create additional work. Omar N. Bradley
writing men arabia
For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it. Omar Sharif
writing positivity people
You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script. Oprah Winfrey
writing process writing-process
I love the writing process. It's something that I'm interested in personally and something I always do on every movie. Olivia Wilde
writing criticism world
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. Oliver Goldsmith
writing waiting mood
Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing. Margaret Atwood
writing together may
Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth flow to hear or read, and it's easier to memorize.
writing people depth
The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read: to live a double life; to go places I haven't been; to examine life on earth; to come to know people in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible; to be surprised.
writing cuneiform
Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.
writing mean events
A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means whatever you say it means.