Quotes about writing
writing pieces kind
I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant..Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre. Richard Aldington
writing paint i-can
I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose. Richard Attenborough
writing bricks bricklaying
Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick. Red Smith
writing typewriters veins
Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.
writing educated civilized
The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write. Red Cloud
writing changed
I guess my writing has changed as my life has. Raymond Carver
writing trying world
In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.
writing judged
Writers will be judged by what they write.
writing want poet
Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.
writing has-beens been-in-love
You have to have been in love to write poetry.
writing imagination littles
A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
writing thinking littles
I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.
writing world very-good
Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.
writing expression talking
It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There's plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.
writing admire wells
You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.
writing literature crafts
There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.
writing insightful stories
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.
writing heart character
If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.
writing
That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.
writing secret knows
Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?
writing thinking people
For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.
writing thinking brave
You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.
writing
I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it. Sammy Hagar
writing together pieces
I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.
writing law order
Write me up for 125, poster my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license all that jive, I can't drive 55.
writing care stuff
Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care, I just do comedy. T. J. Miller
writing acting comedy
There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.
writing plot firsts
When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted yourself in a plot corner. Janet Evanovich
writing men ideas
Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.
writing long progress
How long do we have to deal with conservative failure? How long? Thirty years is not enough? So I would say enough with that, and I would say check out the Center for American Progress, and the writings by Patrick Garofalo, economic guru. That's what I would say. Janeane Garofalo
writing poetry trying
The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand. Janet Fitch
writing home exercise
Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.
writing long done
I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth?