Quotes about writing
writing mail letters
Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway? Sue Monk Kidd
writing thinking people
I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.
writing feelings keepers
I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.
writing heart talking
I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.
writing trying want
A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.
writing stories who-we-are
Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.
writing long people
I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies. Steven Zaillian
writing fantasy persons
There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write Stevie Nicks
writing belief conviction
I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me. Robert Browning
writing artist people
When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records. Rico Love
writing enough good-enough
I never thought I was good enough actually to write. Ricky Schroder
writing two would-be
The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies and I'm a better moviemaker than I a would be writer. Ridley Scott
writing process visceral
The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.
writing ideas blade-runner
Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great writing and great ideas. Blade Runner was full of them.
writing mind
A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript Richard Steele
writing skills done
I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it. Richard Stallman
writing justified software
You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.
writing names giving
GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it.
writing evil trying
If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it.
writing technology law
While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance in technology is an opening for them to further restrict its users.
writing mean simple
It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value".
writing islands java
I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.
writing thinking age
I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography. Richard Simmons
writing wrestling way
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
writing brain mind
A mind can be overthrown by words; that's the point. What is happening to the brain of a person who uses the passive, who writes, 'Delay should not be allowed to take place' instead of 'Hurry'? The user of the passive verb doesn't want a universe in which responsible agents do their acts. You see? Bad language ultimately is IMMORAL. Richard Mitchell
writing house true-life
I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in any of my plottings or in any of my valuations that doesn't ring true to life. I'm a novelist. I'm not a theoretician. Richard Grossman
writing unique levels
If there is anything unique about my writing it is the way that I combine poetry and prose, not just on the level of having a poem here, prose there, but that it really is a true amalgam.
writing plot fiction
I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot. Richard Hell
writing psychology firsts
I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.
writing thinking interesting
You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt like it would be an interesting challenge for me to write down what I'd seen and done and learned - all the convolutions captured in one item that I could look at and get some grip on what the hell happened.
writing interesting consciousness
Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting.
writing years people
I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People just indiscriminately say "memoir" now when it's a person writing about their own life.
writing artist people
Any true musician, true artist, knows that when they're in that point of total artistic creation, whether on stage or in the studio or writing or whatever, that's the closest moment [to creation]. And that's what keeps all these people addicted to getting back to that moment again. Richard Ashcroft