Quotes about writing
writing mean people
One theme of what I've been writing has been to get people to understand that "apolitical" means "you lose." It doesn't mean you live a utopian life free of politicians' influence. The destruction of the public domain is the clearest example, but it will only be the first. Lawrence Lessig
writing creative gardening
I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way. Lauren Bowles
writing dark order
A lot of my work comes from a place of despair or fear. I often write in order to gain some sort of control over aspects of my life or the world that seem too dark to look at directly. Lauren Groff
writing tasks fiction
Fiction is always a utopian task, in that there's an ideal you hold in your head as you write which inevitably fails in the moment of creation, in the insufficiency of words to convey meaning, or in the way the work is completed in the reader's head.
writing world layers
When I write new worlds, I work in layers, building and throwing out, and building anew.
writing fiction world
The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.
writing happy-life simple
At least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing.
writing actors should
Actors should ACT. Not sell perfume, or write cookbooks. Lauren Graham
writing night hours
At night I can write for hours. Lauren Conrad
writing great-things
That's one of the great thing about writing is that you get to be in someone's head.
writing magazines stories
I don't call magazines and let them know about things so they can write stories.
writing unseen results
I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing. Larry Norman
writing views seductive
Activism is very seductive, and writing is painful and hard. It's very scary to have a death threat living over your head. Activism is very sustaining. But I don't view myself as a political person. I'm just someone who desperately wants to stay alive. Larry Kramer
writing ashamed embarrassed
Never be embarrassed or ashamed by anything you choose to write. Larry Niven
writing stories mars
And every friend I've got has been writing Mars stories. It was pretty clear I'd never catch up.
writing sin cardinals
It is a cardinal sin to bore the reader.
writing stories story-writers
You learn by writing short stories. Keep writing short stories. The money's in novels, but writing short stories keeps your writing lean and pointed.
writing littles form
Writing is a form of herding. I herd words into little paragraph-like clusters. Larry McMurtry
writing men dating
Writing a record is like dating a few men at once. You take them to the same restaurants to see if they measure up, and at some point you decide who you like best. Lady Gaga
writing intellectual evolution
I started when I was really young. I was playing classical music when I was 4 and when I turned 11 I started to write pop music. I guess you could say it was my intellectual evolution and my love of music began to change.
writing
I write music every day.
writing want writing-music
I just want to keep writing music.
writing feminist culture
It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When the covers change, that's when culture changes.
writing stuff odd
I'm not a great joke writer, which is odd for a comic to say, but I'm not. So it's hard for me to come up with things, because I don't write stuff, I don't write my act down. Lewis Black
writing
I never write anything down. I write onstage.
writing exercise theater
Stand-up is the only thing in which you actually write it, act it and direct it simultaneously, so it's actually a great theater exercise.
writing should written
It's amazing what I could've written in my life if I had realized that I should keep writing and not masturbating.
writing ravens mad
Why is a raven like a writing desk? Lewis Carroll
writing ravens ideas
Why is a raven like a writing desk? - Mad Hatter I haven't the slightest idea. - Alice
writing trials letters
I have proved by actual trial that a letter, that takes an hour to write, takes only about 3 minutes to read!
writing ravens ideas
Mad Hatter: “Why is a raven like a writing-desk?” “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give it up,” Alice replied: “What’s the answer?” “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter
writing zest giving
Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write; And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!
writing autumn poetry
In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.