Quotes about writ
writing mean dark
The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side is rising. Things could not have been more odd and frightening in the Middle Ages. But the tradition of artists will continue no matter what form the society takes. And this is another reason to write: people need us, to mirror for them and for each other without distortion-not to look around and say, 'Look at yourselves, you idiots!,' but to say, 'This is who we are. Anne Lamott
writing parent ifs
Write as if your parents are dead.
writing giving goes-on
You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have to give from the deepest part of yourself, and you are going to have to go on giving, and the giving is going to have to be its own reward. There is no cosmic importance to your getting something published, but there is in learning to be a giver.
writing use want
You just have to keep getting out of your own way so that whatever it is that wants to be written can use you to write it.
writing being-positive stories
Dialogue that is written in dialect is very tiring to read. If you can do it brilliantly, fine. If other writers read your work and rave about your use of dialect, go for it. But be positive that you do it well, because otherwise it is a lot of work to read short stories or novels that are written in dialect. It makes our necks feel funny.
writing needs wake-up
Writing can be a pretty desperate endeavor, because it is about some of our deepest needs: our need to be visible, to be heard, our need to make sense of our lives, to wake up and grow and belong. It is no wonder if we sometimes tend to take ourselves perhaps a bit too seriously.
writing artist editors
The best thing about being an artist, instead of a madman or someone who writes letters to the editor, is that you get to engage in satisfying work. Even if you never publish a word, you have something important to pour yourself into.
writing helping-others thinking
This is our goal as writers, I think; to help others have this sense of--please forgive me--wonder, of seeing things anew, things that can catch us off guard, that break in on our small, bordered worlds.
writing artist bricks
You simply keep putting down one damn word after the other, as you hear them, as they come to you. You can either set brick as a laborer or as an artist.
writing being-the-best force
That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.
writing sheep needs
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 why they write so little.
writing way firsts
For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.
writing giving surprise
Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises.
writing thinking years
I wasn't sitting around years ago thinking, 'I really want to write a novel. Amy Waldman
writing said wanted
I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway. Amy Winehouse
writing past self
I only write about stuff that’s happened to me.. stuff I can’t get past personally. Luckily, I'm quite self-destructive.
writing young young-women
I'm a young woman and I'm going to write about what I know.
writing challenges writing-music
I really started writing music to challenge myself, to see what I could write.
writing wonder found
Once in a while I catch myself wondering whether I would have found the courage to write if I had not started to write when I was too young to know what was good for me.
writing english-grammar letters
My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. A. A. Milne
writer
What I try to capture as a writer is the feeling of being alive, of being awake. Jenny Offill
writing guitar play
I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing. Alexander Ludwig
writing guitar computer
My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.
writing people albums
I'm releasing a single. It's called 'Live it Up.' It was based on my Euro trip. I only write my own music. I don't let other people write it at all. So I've been working on that a lot. There's three singles coming out. The producer of The Fray who did their double-platinum album 'How to Save a Life,' I'm working with him. He's producing me.
writing thinking negative
Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both. Alexander McCall Smith
writing goddess
And write about it, Goddess, and about it! Alexander Pope
writing way doe
No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.
writing parent ink
Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
writing criticism censure
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
writing men scribbles
But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
writing men names
Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
writing thinking littles
When you finish writing the scripts they have time to take a breath and think about everything. There's just a little more time to think. Network does not allow for that. Alex Graves
writing fighting iceland
No, my favorite scene was Brienne finding Arya and The Hound. I thought that the writing and the dialogue and the confusion that spirals into the fight was such a cool scene. I knew I was gonna film it in Iceland and I did a lot of - I really scouted and climbed around Iceland to find those locations and I just couldn't wait to do that.