Quotes about writ
writing self recognition
one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others Allen Ginsberg
writing voice saint
To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness. Allen Ginsberg
writing listening care
Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening. Allen Ginsberg
writing voice design
To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard. Allen Ginsberg
writing mean current-events
Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events. Allan Gurganus
writing worry
Writers write about what worries them. Alistair MacLeod
writing thinking stories
I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it. Alistair MacLeod
writing born enjoy
I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing. Alistair Maclean
writing challenges different
I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge. Alison McGhee
writing play two-friends
I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together. Alison McGhee
writing together
Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word. Alison McGhee
writing comedian want
I'm not a comedy writer, I'm a comedian, so I only write stuff that I would want to say. Anthony Jeselnik
writing comedy wanted
I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing. Anthony Jeselnik
writing voice very-good
I enjoyed writing for someone elses voice, but I wasnt very good at it. Anthony Jeselnik
writing people tragedy
On Twitter, when someone would die, I would write a joke. Or if there's a tragedy, I would write a joke and tweet it. That was my thing, and then at a certain point, people started demanding it. Anthony Jeselnik
writing get-better said
I would write 100 jokes a day. Most of them were terrible. But I just said, 'I'll write more than everybody else, and that's how I'll get better.' Anthony Jeselnik
writing way retarded
Sure, retarded jokes write themselves. But the spelling is always way off. Anthony Jeselnik
writing
No one can write like Cheryl Strayed. Ann Hood
writing thinking world
To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world. Ann Brashares
writing ideas doubt
There are going to be moments of deep, deep doubts, and you have to have faith that your initial idea was good and just muddle through. Ann Brashares
writing reality play
The difficulty of writing a good theatre play set in new reality was even greater given that the level of similitude to life that is allowed in a film would not work on the stage. Andrzej Wajda
writing actors scripts
Great writing attracts great actors. It attracts money. Without a great script, you have nothing. Andy Garcia
writing mark huckleberry
If Mark Twain had had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn't have gotten around to writing Huckleberry Finn. Andy Borowitz
writing self breathing
Writing is mysterious, and it's supposed to be...any path that gets you there is a good path in the end. But one true thing among all these paths is the need to tap a deep vein of connection between our own uncontrollable interior preoccupations and what we're most concerned about in the world around us. We write in response to that world; we write in response to what we read and learn; and in the end we write out of our deepest selves, the live, breathing, bleeding place where the picture forms, and where it all begins. Andrea Barrett
writing carpe-diem people
It's hard to explain how much one can love writing. If people knew how happy it can make you, we would all be writing all the time. It's the greatest secret of the world. Andrea Barrett
writing fighting expectations
Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism. Andrea Hirata
writing
I am wrong more often than i am writing and even then i am often wrong Andrea Gibson
writing heart remember-you
Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in. Andrea Gibson
writing air practice
I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is a heavy weight to carry. I write to remember. I write to heal. I write to let the air in. I write as a practice of listening. Andrea Gibson
writing secret good-writing
Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. Mark Haddon
writer
I could never be the kind of writer who went to the set of the movie and fussed and fretted about, 'Oh, that dialogue's wrong,' or 'That character doesn't look like that.' That would be insufferable. Alan Moore
writers
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness. Charlaine Harris
written
I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern. Van Morrison