Quotes about writing
writing editors research
Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists. Julian Assange
writing media organization
As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.
writing thinking rights
If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons. If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you're ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.
writing dark years
The imagination doesn't crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever's there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes nothing at all. And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool, dark attic, which the writer nervously visits from time to time; and yes, oh dear, while he's been hard at work downstairs, up in the attic there are puckering skins, warning spots, a sudden brown collapse and the sprouting of snowflakes. What can he do about it? Julian Barnes
writing fiction world
When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world
writing literature realizing
Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.
writing ideas people
I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.
writing thinking fiction
Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.
writing blue games
I threw the opening pitch at a Blue Jays game, and after the pitch, the mascot asked me if I wanted him to sign the game ball, which I thought was funny. What would he write? "Best Wishes, Some Guy in a Bird Suit"?" Ken Jennings
writing famous-writers enjoyed
I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something. Ken Kesey
writing america get-better
Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
writing thinking forever
I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.
writing touring
I tend to write better when I'm not touring. Keith Urban
writing looks life-is
I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous. Keith Richards
writing race
I always say that I'm a writer who writes more from place than race. Katori Hall
writing space stories
Actors, who invest a lot of time and energy, will never put down each other. Every one of us has their own space in the industry. These stories are either publicity mechanisms or someone just writes them to create a controversy. Katrina Kaif
writing thinking people
You can't write your life story and leave out one of the most important things that happened to you in your life. I think that that would be dishonest, and it would be something people would be very angry about. Kris Jenner
writing thinking realize-things
I really like to write, so I can just relax and think about things and realize things and then try to express it on my computer. Krist Novoselic
writing breathing long
I'll probably be writing as long as I'm breathing. Kris Kristofferson
writing cutting nashville
If you're in it because you love it and you have to do it, that's the right reason. If you're in it because you want to get rich or famous, don't do it. People often say that my first years in Nashville, when I wasn't getting anything cut, were tough. Hell, those were great years.
writing ideas bored
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead. Kit Williams
writing tests would-be
It would be morally reprehensible not to tell the truth... Everything I have written has stood the test of time. Kitty Kelley
writing
Beginning to write, you discover what you have to write about. Kit Reed
writing doctors pills
I got so anxious sitting in the make-up chair for hours with my face covered. I had my doctor write a prescription for valium. I couldn't have done it without the pill. Kim Hunter
writing impossible things-you-can-control
Its impossible to control the reception of your work - the only thing you can control is the experience of writing itself, and the work you create. Kim Edwards
writing discovery stories
Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.
writing heart broken
It's hard to write about a love story with a broken heart. Kim Gordon
writing weekend wish
I wish I could say I write 9-5. It's usually more like 8-6, every day but the weekends. Kim Harrison
writing numbers safety
Newt spun, making her robe unfurl. “He’s my familiar, bought and paid for. I can claim anything of his. Even his life.” Al cleared his throat nervously. “That’s good to know,” he said lightly. “Important safety tip. Rachel, write that down somewhere as lesson number one.
writing thinking trying
I know that the writers I read and admire all have an influence on my work, but trying to determine to what degree any particular piece of input changes the way I think about writing seems counterproductive. Kevin Powers
writing secret aspiration
Writing was always an aspiration, but I'd kept it a secret even from myself.
writing differences importance
Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.
writing stories writing-poems
I've been writing poems and stories since I was about 13.