Quotes about writ
writing melancholy
I'm just melancholy by nature, and a lot of that gets into my writing. Edwidge Danticat
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 political missing
Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point. Bob Woodward
writing men years
I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album. Bob Newhart
writing miracle planning
Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder Where there is a miracle- there is a God! Bliss Carman
writing
I just like to write and then perform. Bo Burnham
writing thinking ideas
When things [writing] are over, I always think, 'well, I'm never going to do anything again because I have no ideas so I'm going to go be a farmer'. Or else ideas will come and and if not then I become a farmer. Hopefully won't happen.
writing want realizing
Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously. Billy Gardell
writing hymns singing
Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of Christ in Hicksville. Billy Joel
writing goal stuff
I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.
writing bye tonight
If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.
writing blood hot
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
writing issues mind
I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.
writing reason wanted
That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor. Bill Kurtis
writing long-ago editors
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days. Bill Joy
writing editors satisfaction
Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love. Bill Keller
writing enjoy fourth
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all. Beverly Cleary
writing yellow pads
I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.
writing successful keys
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
writing want today
The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you're going before you even start. That's a tough audience to surprise, and a tough audience to write for. It's much more competitive now, because the audience is so much more - I want to say 'sophisticated.' Betty White
writing play laughing
So much of the humor on new sitcoms plays to the lowest common denominator. Wit isn't nearly given as much attention as slipping on a banana peel. So much of the writing is so coarse, so obvious that it doesn't provide a shock, never mind a laugh. What makes something funny is alluding to it without laying it out explicitly. You let the audiences fill in the gaps and that's where the laughs come.
writing thinking sick
When I hear a great new record, especially when it's by someone that I respect and admire, then a part of me is like, Why didn't I think of that? Why didn't I write that record? It makes you sick, but in a way it can be a great thing. It makes you want to go back to the lab and start writing again. Maybe it will inspire you to try a little harder. Beyonce Knowles