Quotes about writing
writing expectations romance
Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.
writing trying way
I realized that if you're trying to reach an audience, being as subjective as possible and really trying to write from something genuine is the way to go. Really it's mostly from my own process, my own experience. Christopher Nolan
writing men hands
A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a symphony. Mozart suggested that a symphony was rather an ambitious project for a beginner: perhaps the young man might better try his hand at something simpler first. "But you were writing symphonies when you were my age." the student protested. "Yes, but I didn't have to ask how." James Keller
writing self two
So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing ... Brenda Ueland
writing generosity performances
...writing is not a performance but a generosity.
writing men years
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. Samuel Butler
writing drained
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
writing today classic
Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it. Liam Gallagher
writing secret good-writing
Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. Mark Haddon
writing exercise stories
I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good exercise, because I learned to tell little stories. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
writing years everyday
My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I put perfume here on the insides of my soles, I paint my left testicle red, and I write. Alejandro Jodorowsky
writing law appeals
All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself Aleister Crowley
writing men thinking
Man has the right . . . to play as he will . . . to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will.
writing old-testament models
The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.
writing layers method
I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer. Alberto Moravia
writing thinking personality
I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.
writing ratios literacy
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
writing night light
In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. Alberto Manguel
writing library sake
Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.
writing thinking brain
Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think. Albert Einstein
writing creative unhappy
In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
writing purpose now-and-then
I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English. Alfred Nobel
writing biographies impossible
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
writing animal interesting
Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes. He has perhaps spent his spare time in writing articles to prove that human beings are as other animals so that 'purpose' is a category irrelevant for the explanation of their bodily activities, his own activities included. Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study. Alfred North Whitehead
writing garden order
In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to take the proper measures; whereas in America, you telephone the fire department. Each satisfies a characteristic need; in the English, love of order and legalistic procedure; and here in America, what you like is something vivid, and red, and swift.
writing men gains
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
writing genius singularity
What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity, his particular inimitable genius. Alfred Kazin
writing order ideas
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.
writing goodness historian
Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write. Alexander Downer
writing destiny over-you
I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny. Alex Borstein
writing men views
My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing. Alex Campbell
writing bike
I like to read and write and take pictures and bike. Alex D. Linz
writing conservative language
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings. Alex Cox