Quotes about writ
writing order firsts
In order to write poetry, you must first invent a poet who will write it. Antonio Machado
writing soul sin
The unpublished manuscript is like an uncon-fessed sin that festers in the soul, corrupting and contaminating it.
writing piano play
I play the piano and write music. Anwar Robinson
writing mind fiction
Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction, for me, is about putting on paper my obsessive interest in something mysterious. I may figure out the source of the mystery, the things that brought some action or image to my mind, but to make an equation of it would ruin the story. Antonya Nelson
writing thinking years
I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days. Anurag Kashyap
writing suggestions opinion
Having had the good fortune to serve beside her on both courts, I can attest that her opinions are always thoroughly considered, always carefully crafted and almost always correct (which is to say we sometimes disagree). That much is apparent for all to see. What only her colleagues know is that her suggestions improve the opinions the rest of us write, and that she is a source of collegiality and good judgment in all our work. Antonin Scalia
writing thinking self
Life is better lived than conceptualized. — This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I’ve come to understand that life is best to be lived — not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand. Bruce Lee
writing happens
I only write about what I do, what happens to me. Brownie McGhee
writing soldier calendars
I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars. Brooke Burke
writing blow mind
It blows my mind the way Frank Miller can write. Brittany Murphy
writing bridges lucky
Im very excited to work with everybody on The Bridge - the cast, the writing staff, the executive producers - the show is really good. Im very lucky to be a part of it. Brian Van Holt
writing discovery long
After writing fiction for so long, I like the discovery element of nonfiction, in the sense that when you find the right information, it feels like gold. Edwidge Danticat
writing interesting people
It's interesting to see people overcome things. Because if you didn't overcome, you wouldn't be writing it.
writing dark hair
No, women like you don't write. They carve onion sculptures and potato statues. They sit in dark corners and braid their hair in new shapes and twists in order to control the stiffness, the unruliness, the rebelliousness.
writing practice stressful
The more practice you have, the less stressful writing is.
writing melancholy
I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing.
writing knowing people
Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may risk his or her life to read them.
writing hair unity
When you write ,it's like braiding your hair. Taking a handful of coarse unruly strands and attempting to bring then unity.
writing one-direction mind
Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. Edmund Burke
writing self aquariums
If a fish is born in your aquarium and you call him John, write out a birth certificate, tell him about his family history, and in two minutes he gets eaten by another fish - that's tragic. But it's only tragic because you projected a separate self where there was none. You got hold of a fraction of dynamic process, a molecular dance, and a separate entity out of it. Eckhart Tolle
writing language-words language
You cannot write in more than one language. Words don't come out as well. Elie Wiesel
writing opposites routine
Writing should not be routine; writing should actually be the opposite of procedural because otherwise the written word would become a routine word.
writing order mad
Did I write it so as not to go mad or, on the contrary, to go mad in order to understand the nature of madness?
writing reap
And to write is to sow and to reap at the same time.
writing order sculpture
Writing is like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate, in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain
writing musical needs
I listen to music when I write. I need the musical background. Classical music. I'm behind the times. I'm still with Baroque music, Gregorian chant, the requiems, and with the quartets of Beethoven and Brahms. That is what I need for the climate, for the surroundings, for the landscape: the music.
writing understanding literature
I write to understand as much as to be understood.
writing men due-process-of-law
We're not descended from fearful men - not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular. Edward R. Murrow
writing past order
Part of the main plan of imperialism... is that we will give you your history, we will write it for you, we will re-order the past...What's more truly frightening is the defacement, the mutilation, and ultimately the eradication of history in order to create... an order that is favorable to the United States. Edward Said
writing phones government
Every time you pick up the phone, dial a number, write an e-mail, make a purchase, travel on the bus carrying a cell phone, swipe a card somewhere, you leave a trace, and the Government has decided that it's good idea to collect it all, everything, even if you've never been suspected of doing a crime. Edward Snowden
writing self equal
Our founders did not write that We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all US Persons are created equal.
writing thinking anthropologists
I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist Clifford Geertz
writing luxury liberty
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing. Dwight Yoakam