Quotes about writ
writing skills talent
I'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn. Anthony Hopkins
writing play piano
I wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was my limitation in life. I wanted to write music and I didn't know what I was doing and I never had the technique or the understanding of it. But I've always played the piano, and I can improvise on the piano. The problem is that I can't write down what I play. I can read music but I can't write it down.
writing long together
When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music. Anthony Kiedis
writing mind substance
Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.
writing
You can't live and write at the same time. Alison Bechdel
writing drawing wish
Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
writing drawing reason
For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
writing long feelings
I've always expressed myself best through writing. I've gotten out all of my deepest feelings that way for as long as I can remember. Alicia Keys
writing spirit focused
Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.
writing blood people
What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons they write, the exquisitely frustrating restrictions of their autonomy and the fact that no one listens to their cries, are all the reasons that mentally ill people, and even many normal people write. We write to escape our prisons. Alice Weaver Flaherty
writing men color
How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that...we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies.
writing voice plot
Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines that are already known entities, so for me, it's very different from writing fiction. Alice Sebold
writing poet novel
I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels. Alice Walker
writing people feelings
It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.
writing should-have want
I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.
writing kind bones
For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
writing sides jazz
There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
writing interesting violence
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.
writing thinking muse
I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.
writing hatred littles
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
writing violence sin
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
writing people understanding
Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.
writing thinking long
I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
writing stories
The writing itself is the thing that generates stories for me. Alice McDermott
writing order fiction
When I'm not writing, I can't make sense of out anything. I feel the need to make some sense and find some order, and writing fiction is the only way I've found that seems to begin to do that.
writing reflection thinking
I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations. Alice James
writing crafts want
You want in all cases for the story to get through the writing. Alice Munro
writing one-day towns
I knew I would be famous one day. That's because I lived in a very small town and nobody liked doing the same things I did, like writing.
writing mean men
Naturally my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men who write mostly about men. I'm not always sure what is meant by "feminist." In the beginning I used to say, well, of course I'm a feminist. But if it means that I follow a kind of feminist theory, or know anything about it, then I'm not. I think I'm a feminist as far as thinking that the experience of women is important. That is really the basis of feminism.
writing important alive
It's certainly true that when I was young, writing seemed to me so important that I would have sacrificed almost anything to it ... Because I thought of the world in which I wrote -- the world I created -- as somehow much more enormously alive than the world I was actually living in.
writing thinking somewhere-else
If I decided to send this to you, where would I send it? When I think of writing the whole address on the envelope I am paralyzed. It's too painful to think of you in the same place with your life going on in the same way, minus me. And to think of you not there, you somewhere else but I don't know where that is, is worse.
writing enjoy hard
Writing is hard, but the more you write, and enjoy what you write, the better it gets.
writing years practice
For years and years I thought that stories were just practice, till I got time to write a novel,