Quotes about writ
writing long madness
I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them. Clarice Lispector
writing my-own
I write to save someone's life, probably my own
writing long answers
So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
writing rocks steel
No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.
writing pigs self
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.
writing world way
Yes, writing is essential to me. It's my way of living in the world. Claire Messud
writing way groups
I'm not a writing group member, not a joiner in that way. I don't seek a wide swath of feedback.
writing voice missing
I wanted to write a voice that for me, as a reader, had been missing from the chorus: the voice of an angry woman.
writing thinking hands
I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand. Elizabeth Strout
writing thinking maine
In a way, I'm very interested in writing about Maine, because I think Maine represents its own kind of history. It's the oldest state, and it's the whitest state.
writing perfect bail
The banks lobbied Washington so they could write the rules that got us into this crisis. They then lobbied Washington to get the money to bail them out. And then they are lobbying Washington to write the rules so they can get us into the next crisis. It's perfect circularity. Elizabeth Warren
writing may firsts
It's one of the things writing students don't understand. They write a first draft and are quite disappointed, or often should be disappointed. They don't understand that they have merely begun, and that they may be merely beginning even in the second or third draft. Elizabeth Hardwick
writing research routine
I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully pure, integral relationship; the awkwardness is necessary and inevitable.
writing views government
If every nation gets the government it deserves, every generation writes the history which corresponds with its view of the world. Elizabeth Janeway
writing long favors
As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.
writing pressure headlines
If you only have one shot at writing a headline, there's a lot of pressure. Eli Pariser
writing giving people
Charity is just writing checks and not being engaged. Philanthropy, to me, is being engaged, not only with your resources but getting people and yourself really involved and doing things that haven't been done before. Eli Broad
writing night infinite
The process of writing has something infinite about it. Even though it is interrupted each night, it is one single notation. Elias Canetti
writing pages should
When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about
writing people buried
Truth gets buried, that's why people write autobiographies. Elia Kazan
writing waiting merit
Miller didn't write Death of a Salesman. He released it. It was there inside him, waiting to be turned loose. That's the measure of its merit.
writing people design
You have to write scenes and design scenes that are scary and horrific, but that are also watchable. I didn't want people to just feel like they got punched in the stomach. Eli Roth
writing self creative
Creative writing and shooting are muscles that atrophy. But when you work them, you become a self-generator who can branch out.
writing kind one-thing-at-a-time
I've realized that I can't multitask in the writing department; I can only kind of do one thing at a time.
writing thinking careers
I look at careers like Ben Stiller and think that's a great career to have where you're doing movies that you write and direct, and also act in films, although he's primarily an actor.
writing opportunity men
Many a man has walked up to the opportunity for which he has long been preparing himself, looked it full in the face, and then begun to get cold feet... when it comes to betting on yourself and your power to do the thing you know you must do or write yourself down a failure, you're a chicken-livered coward if you hesitate. B. C. Forbes
writing men years
A magazine editor recently asked me to sit down on my 40th birthday and write an article on the most important things I had learned in my first 40 years. I told him that the chief thing I had learned was that the copybook maxims are true, but that too many people forget this once they go out into the heat and hustle and bustle of the battle of life and only realize their truth once one foot is beginning to slip into the grave. The man who has won millions at the cost of his conscience is a failure.
writing able talent
I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally. Ashanti
writing creating albums
When I'm writing my album, it's totally my world. Even though it's myself and another producer creating the project, Conceptually it's more under my power and on my own terms. At the same time, it's a different type of pressure because I'm ultimately speaking, I'm solely responsible for the end result.
writing imagine careful
I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves. Asghar Farhadi
writing thinking want
When I decide to write a story, I don't think too much about what I want it to be, I just let things come naturally and this is how it turns out. It's just how my subconscious works.
writing thinking world
Whenever I write a part, I think there's this person somewhere in the world that this part is specifically for and all I have to do is go searching to find that particular individual.
writing weather track
I set myself 600 words a day as a minimum output, regardless of the weather, my state of mind or if I'm sick or well. There must be 600 finished words — not almost right words. Before you ask, I'll tell you that yes, I do write 600 at the top of my pad every day, and I keep track of the word count to insure I reach my quota daily — without fail. Arthur Hailey