Quotes about writ
writing play long
People often ask me how long it takes me to write a play, and I tell them 'all of my life.' Edward Albee
writing creative intense
I find that in the course of the day when I'm writing, after three or four hours of intense work, I have a splitting headache, and I have to stop. Because the involvement, which is both creative and self-critical, is so intense that I've got to stop doing it.
writing reality opposites
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it.
writing two life-and-death
There are only two things to write about: life and death.
writing optimism matter
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter.
writing men adequate
I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music. Edgard Varese
writing want draws
I dont want to write, Id rather draw. Eddie Campbell
writing browsing dictionary
Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank. Eddie Cantor
writing progress world
I was interested in writing about gender in this future world where progress has not only halted but turned backward. On another note, sometimes the personal is not so politically correct, and what we are turned on by can't be made to behave. Edan Lepucki
writing thinking needs
have a much harder time writing stories than novels. I need the expansiveness of a novel and the propulsive energy it provides. When I think about scene - and when I teach scene writing - I'm thinking about questions. What questions are raised by a scene? What questions are answered? What questions persist from scene to scene to scene?
writing thinking long
At Ucross I learned that I am capable of focusing deeply for long periods of time. I love to write. I don't think I would have said that before this trip.
writing want matter
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
writing play written
I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me. Holland Taylor
writing occupation consuming
Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming. Holly Johnson
writing littles biographies
I feel I have to live a little longer before I write a sequel to my auto biography which covers my experiences up until October 1991.
writing
You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more. Holly Black
writing eye voice
The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them. Hermann Ebbinghaus
writing challenges artistic
I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge. Herman Wouk
writing pages add
Write a page a day. It will add up.
writing broken trying
I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.
writing blue black
Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones. Hermann Hesse
writing feet able
If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet, my life would have no meaning and I would not have been able to write anything.
writing literature growing
Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.
writing superfluous
Many a poem is marred by a superfluous word. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
writing biographies
A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.
writing people world
The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write. Joseph Addison
writing lapses genius
The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.
writing convenience
Each one writes history according to his convenience. Jose Rizal
writing feet four
Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet. Jose Saramago
writing men wisest-man
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
writing past men
Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels.
writing trying
I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.
writing example novel
When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.