Quotes about writing
writing house chocolate
It used to be with chocolate. I would put chocolate in my studio and say, "You know, Nat, there's this chocolate you can have if you get over there." And usually if I got over there, I would start writing. Sometimes I need get out of the house and go to a café and write. Sometimes I'll write with other friends to get myself going. And sometimes I just say "Ok, Nat, enough. Go one hour. Keep your hand going." I'll do whatever it takes. Natalie Goldberg
writing want firsts
When you write what you know, you stay in control. One of the first things I encourage my writing students to do is to lose control - say what they want to say, break structure.
writing voice people
It’s much better to be a tribal writer, writing for all people and reflecting many voices through us, than to be a cloistered being trying to find one peanut of truth in our own individual mind. Become big and write with the whole world in your arms.
writing goal anxiety
My goal is to write every day. I say it is my ideal. I am careful not to pass judgment or create anxiety if I do not do it. No one lives up to his ideal.
writing acceptance order
We have to accept ourselves in order to write. Now none of us does that fully: few of us do it even halfway. Don’t wait for one hundred percent acceptance of yourself before you write, or even eight percent acceptance. Just write. The process of writing is an activity that teaches us about acceptance.
writing quality doe
The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
writing way
When I wrote and got out of the way, writing did writing.” (p.90)
writing discovery
Writing is the act of discovery.
writing play fearless
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
writing computer pens
I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.
writing down-and shut-up
Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.
writing waiting speak
Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
writing thinking practice
What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind...The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mann ered, congenial.
writing heart secret
The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.
writing shut-up
Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.
writing meditation mind
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
writing thinking tennis
Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.
writing bothering-you hands
If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
writing waiting stories
Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.
writing kind all-kinds
You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write, you physically have to do it.
writing hands joy
There's an old adage in writing: 'Don't tell, but show.' Writing is not psychology. We do not talk 'about' feelings. Instead the writer feels and through her words awakens those feelings in the reader. The writer takes the reader's hand and guides him through the valley of sorrow and joy without ever having to mention those words.
writing secret religion
Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever. Sigmund Freud
writing wealth fame
Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.
writing letters something-new
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.
writing voice persons
Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.
writing long pages
A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing -- articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence. Shirley Hazzard
writing thinking pages
I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing.
writing needs nervous
It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.
writing here-i-am imperfection
My personal relationship with music is an imperfect harmony because I never studied music, but here I am not just writing for bands but full orchestral sections and doing all this composition, and I never learned the right way of doing things so I have a lot of dissonant sounds and things that are brought to my attention, and generally I leave them that way because I like those imperfections. Serj Tankian
writing goal different
I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that.
writing passion simple
If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with the passion to write. The number of people wanting to be novelists is probably not going to decline - but certainly the number of people who are going to be able to make a living as authors is going to dramatically decrease. Scott Turow
writing opportunity water
When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single. Scott Weiland
writing thinking musical
When I'm writing a lyric, I totally forget about the music. I'm just looking at the lyric and thinking about it almost as a separate entity. And then I'll go to my keyboard with all the lyrics printed out and try to think of how to make this a complete musical thing. I've got a very basic keyboard with some presets. Scott Walker