Quotes about writ
writing influence
I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor. Carole King
writing people feel-good
I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.
writing kind process
I enjoy writing. I enjoy that kind of process. Caroline Kennedy
writing trying scripts
As hard as you try to write a good script and you have great intentions, this alchemy has to occur. Carlton Cuse
writing voice incense
...you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: 'Write this down' Carlos Santana
writing stories letters
A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise. Carlos Ruiz Zafon
writing tales died
I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
writing tools literature
The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will be.
writing expression lines
I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write. I wrote and rewrote every line as if my life depended on it, and then rewrote it again.
writing night dragons
I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of dragons (I have 400 of them). I only use Macintosh computers, which I name in dynastic order. Right now I'm using MacDragon 5. Only the devil is able to decipher my handwriting.
writing novelists human-nature
Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.
written
The average American doesn't realize how much of the laws are written by lobbyists. Eric Schmidt
writers
If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works. John Dos Passos
writers-and-writing
Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it. Jean Paul
writing who-i-am wind
I gasp, because Isn't that just exactly what I've been doing too: writing poems and scattering them to the winds with the same hope as Gram that someone, someday, somewhere might understand who I am, who my sister was, and what happened to us. Jandy Nelson
writing people mouths
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. Jane Austen
writing
I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.
writing practice style
It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.
writing laughing people
I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.
writing aunt letters
And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.
writing
How can you contrive to write so even?
writing effort style
I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.
writing style
My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.
writing suspense ends
Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.
writing worry stories
Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just go. Jan Brett
writing home choices
Whenever I started writing music, it just naturally led itself there. As I started to tell my story, it's where my home was. It's just a very natural choice. Jamie Lynn Spears
writing people faults
I write because it makes God happy that I write. I sing because it makes God happy that I sing. And if it makes God's people happy, then all the better. But if it fails to do so, it's probably my fault. Jamey Johnson
writing sitting-still wish
I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still. Jami Attenberg
writing emotional historical-novels
I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.
writing thinking contemporary-fiction
Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There's much to be said. We're on it, chief.
writing romance great-american
Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead. Jasmine Cresswell
writing play two
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven. Jascha Heifetz
writing work-out messages
And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's message into the writing process. It's like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it. Jason Bateman