Quotes about writ
writing blood people
The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel. Joni Mitchell
writing guitar frustrated
At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.
writing play interesting
Once I got the open tunings for some reason, I began to get the harmonic sophistication that I heard that my musical fountain inside was excited by. Once I got some interesting chords to play with, my writing began to come.
writing years laughing
When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something. Jonathan Stroud
writing thinking years
When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.
writing yesterday rejection
You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday Jonathan Swift
writing years people
People have been telling me I'm a failure and that I'm doing it all wrong for 20 years now. Never trust anybody when they tell you how your story goes. You know your story. You write your own story. Kevin Smith
writing intelligent interesting
Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.
writing people acting
Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.
writing heart men
I'm not a writer. I marvel at writing. I am sometimes absolutely astounded when I read something and I think how in the world did that man or that woman sit down at a typewriter, a computer or a pen and an ink well, and seemingly have nothing come between their heart and that pen. Kevin Spacey
writing taught ifs
If writing has taught me anything, it's that you don't actually understand anything until you can express it in words. Kevin Bleyer
writing long effort
What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own consciousness. I kept expecting that sooner or later the effort would come to seem like second nature to me, but it never did. Kevin Brockmeier
writing creating atmosphere
With every sentence she writes, Davis freshens the senses. Her novels achieve a tone that’s unlike anyone else’s, creating an atmosphere you don’t so much interpret as breathe.
writing fire burning
A visual experience is vitalizing. Whereas to write great poetry, to draw continuously on one's inner life, is not merely exhausting, it is to keep alight a consuming fire. Kenneth Clark
writing years law
The Practice I was on for seven years and it was a law show, so I really - a lot of objections and things like that, lots of long, long monologues that David Kelly used to write me, which were great. I was really lucky to have my first show go that long. Kelli Williams
writing worry borrowing
I don't read much of what I write because I worry about unintentionally borrowing something. Kelley Armstrong
writing style needs
Young writers need to be encouraged to write - just write - with no restrictions on form, style or content.
writing reality alternate-realities
The best user experiences are enchanting. They help the user enter an alternate reality, whether it's the world of making music, writing, sharing photos, coding, or managing a project. Kathy Sierra
writing hygiene it-takes-a-village
Ahh! Lady Pillows. So much fluffier than mine.” He took a giant whiff. “Why does everything girlie smell so delightful?” “Because we acknowledge the importance of basic hygiene. And periodically clean our bathrooms.” “Brilliant. I should write that down. After all, it takes a village. Kathy Reichs
writing fiction problem
One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in front of the public. Some writers aren't comfortable with that. I don't have a problem with that.
writing intimidating novel
I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one. Kurt Busiek
writing listening-to-music manuscripts
I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting. Khaled Hosseini
writing credibility aspiring-writers
The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read.
writing rewriting
Writing for me is largely about rewriting.
writing literature tradition
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
writing thinking romance
The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
writing stories way
I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.
writing nuts medicine
I don't know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I know about writing is very instinctive.
writing eighteen
Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it.
writing novel short-story
Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.
writing work-out worry
It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out.
writing successful whole-life
By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of my whole life, which was to write for a living.
writing choices waiting
All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.