Quotes about writ
writing names earth
Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores. Dwight L. Moody
writing sometimes rhyme
Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with. Courtney Barnett
writing common said
Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century. Coventry Patmore
writing cat thinking
I keep social with everyone because I want to know what's going on at every level. At the same time, if I'm not alone a certain amount of time per day then I'll go nuts, because I can't write and I can't think. I can't deal with people all the time. I like being alone. I'm a bit of a cat lady in that way. Courtney Love
writing needs produce
You need to write on your own and produce your own life.
writing blow toilets
Remember, if you write anything nasty about me, I'll come around and blow up your toilet.
writing rocks scripts
Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.
writing ideas sometimes
I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively solitary thing, but I do like coming up with ideas. Colin Hay
writing thinking always-trying
As you get older you don't want to just do the same thing, otherwise there's not much point. I think it's more or less trying to write things that, perhaps, say more by doing less, or you're always trying to refine things, make things a little simpler, a little more essential.
writing thinking years
I tend to write pretty much by myself. I always did that anyway. I used to write with Ron Strykert 'cause he was the only guitarist and we played well together. We lived in the same place. I would play a certain style and he would kind of dance around what I did, in a sense. I learned from him and also vice-versa. With this band, I think I bounce ideas off everybody. Perhaps on the next album they'll be more collaborative stuff, but for the last 2-3 years, I've been pretty well writing by myself.
writing
I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write Colin Quinn
writing wanted
I always wanted to write as much as perform.
writing thinking want
You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.
written
Littera scripta manet - 'The written word will remain'. That's true, but it won't be that much comfort to me. Christopher Hitchens
written
When I die Dublin will be written in my heart. James Joyce
writing thinking people
There are moments when I am writing when I think that if other people knew how I felt right now, they’d burn me at the stake for feeling so good, so full, so much intense pleasure. Anne Lamott
writing people able
Jealousy is such a direct attack on whatever measure of confidence you’ve been able to muster. But if you continue to write, you are probably going to have to deal with it, because some wonderful, dazzling successes are going to happen for some of the most awful, angry, undeserving writers you know-people who are, in other words, not you.
writing giving looks
One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another is that writing motivates you to look closely at life, at life as it lurches by and tramps around.
writing voice effort
Almost all good writing begins with terrible first efforts. You need to start somewhere. Start by getting something—anything—down on paper. What I’ve learned to do when I sit down to work on a shitty first draft is to quiet the voices in my head.
writing men important
We all know we're going to die; what's important is the kind of men and women we are in the face of this.
writing sheep needs
The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about telling the truth. We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason they write so very little. But we do. We have so much we want to say and figure out.
writing publication cracked
Publication is not all that it is cracked up to be. But writing is.
writing should-have people
You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.
writing past emotional
Try to write in a directly emotional way, instead of being too subtle or oblique. Don't be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done.
writing giving people
I still encourage anyone who feels at all compelled to write to do so. I just try to warn people who hope to get published that publication is not all it is cracked up to be. But writing is. Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. That thing you had to force yourself to do---the actual act of writing---turns out to be the best part. It's like discovering that while you thought you needed the tea ceremony for the caffeine, what you really needed was the tea ceremony. The act of writing turns out to be its own reward.
writing night two
E.L. Doctorow said once said that 'Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.' You don't have to see where you're going, you don't have to see your destination or everything you will pass along the way. You just have to see two or three feet ahead of you. This is right up there with the best advice on writing, or life, I have ever heard.
writing thinking people
I'd think of a topic and just rant on it and transfer it to the computer, upload it. It's such a quick thing. You post it on your website and after an hour, 10 people write comments. Andy Milonakis
writing pilots tvs
I'm going to write a whole pilot and see if anyone's interested, and if not then I'll just live out the tortured life instead of showing it on TV.
writing thinking play
I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward. Alber Elbaz
writing thinking letters
I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.
writing college lynching
By the time I was at college, I became very alert to the question of racial discrimination, and I remember one of my first writing attempts had to do with a lynching. Albert Maltz
writing directors comedy
You know, I became a director out of necessity. I was writing comedies, and I couldn't find anybody to deliver it correctly. Albert Brooks
writing brain needs
If you paint, write, do mosaics, knit - if it's solving that part of your brain saying, 'I need to do this,' you've won.