Quotes about writ
writing bars cows
A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar. Arthur Koestler
writing wind play
As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about, clearly I am sensitive to the winds that are blowing in the culture. At the same time, I have always felt that the issue was not to deal with the problem in the abstract, but to deal with the people who are in that problem. The emphasis is on the people. The general problem begins to resolve itself even before the play is finished. Arthur Miller
writing play trying
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
writing i-can ifs
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
writing years play
My plays are always involved with society, but I'm writing about people, too, and it's clear over the years that audiences understand them and care about them. The political landscape changes, the issues change, but the people are still there. People don't really change that much.
writing son bed
Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.
writing mad long
One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives.
writing embarrassing best-work
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
writing fighting wife
I'm working when I'm fighting with my wife. I constantly ask myself-how can I use this stuff to literary advantage. Art Buchwald
writing suffering failing
Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer.
writing thinking trying
Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best. Aziz Ansari
writing roles want
There are so many directors that I want to work with, but I can't tell you that there's one role. If I knew it, I would write it for myself. Ayelet Zurer
writing people tragedy
I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them. Ayelet Waldman
writing differences discipline
The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.
writing listening might
The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any particular point and have to question yourself; but normally, dialogue writes itself. Ayn Rand
writing agony sweat
I seldom know what I'm going to write when I sit down. There isn't much agony and sweat of the human spirit involved in doing it. The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult. Charles Bukowski
writing solitude splits
Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.
writing gun typewriters
There is only one place to write and that is alone at a typewriter. The writer who has to go into the streets is a writer who does not know the streets. . . when you leave your typewriter you leave your machine gun and the rats come pouring through.
writing said tenderness
Your writing", she said to me, "it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . .
writing people trying
Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious.
writing way ifs
If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead.
writing men cliffs
There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge.
writing gun typewriters
WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH.
writing wine men
the writing of some men is like a vast bridge that carries you over the many things that claw and tear. The Wine of Forever
writing sometimes easy
The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult.
writing drunk advice
It's hot tonight and half the neighborhood is drunk. the other half is dead. if I have any advice about writing poetry it's - don't. I'm going to send out for some fried chicken.
writing simple people
People just don't know how to write down a simple easy line. It's difficult for them; it's like trying to keep a hard-on while drowning - not many can do it.
writing past lines
If you can't write the next line, well, you're dead. The past doesn't matter.
writing sleep eye
There's nothing to stop a man from writing unless that man stops himself. If a man truly desires to write, then he will. Rejection and ridicule will only strengthen him. And the longer he is held back the stronger he will become, like a mass of rising water against a dam. There is no losing in writing, it will make your toes laugh as you sleep, it will make you stride like a tiger, it will fire the eye and put you face to face with death. You will die a fighter, you will be honored in hell. The luck of the word. Go with it, send it.
writing people desperate
writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.
writing insanity way
There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
writing bad-writing bad-woman
bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it
writing profound simplicity
Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity