Quotes about writing
writing creativity way
Whether you are inspired or not, the only way to unlock your creativity, is to start writing. Jane Green
writing giving culture
Writing, printing, and the Internet give a false sense of security about the permanence of culture. Jane Jacobs
writing eye hands
The ability to name poetry's gestures and rhetorics isn't required to write or read them, any more than a painter needs to know the physics of color to bring forward a landscape. The eye and hand and ear know what they need to know. Some of us want to know more, because knowing pleases. Jane Hirshfield
writing thinking osmosis
I want to understand the piers of language and music and comprehension that can hold up a building even when what the building houses is an earthquake. This thinking must surely come into the poems I write, but more by osmosis than will.
writing past mind
Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.
writing exercise perspective
The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled.
writing winter apples
I require silence to write the way an apple tree requires winter to make fruit. Being with people is intimate and joyous, but at some point, I'll wander off by myself. The paradox is that what began in childhood as an act of necessary solitude has led me straight to a life with others, in which I fly to China or Lithuania or northern Minnesota to read my poems and talk with other people who love language made into a lathe on which a life can be tuned and be turned.
writing population stories
I would love to see more women directors because they represent half of the population - and gave birth to the whole world. Without them writing and being directors, the rest of us are not going to know the whole story. Jane Campion
writing brain
At some point, my body will collapse. But I hope that my brain will still be working so that I can carry on with writing. Jane Goodall
writing scary up-to-you
Movies are collective, cooperative endeavours, which I like a lot. But writing is all up to you, it's what's so scary; it's just you and that page. But I really like it a lot. Jane Fonda
writing thinking use
Through therapy and a lot of thinking and writing my memoirs, I've been able to use my life as a lesson.
writing ifs
I'll never sing something that I've never been through. So even if I didn't write it, I have to have at least experienced it. Jana Kramer
writing ideas factual
I resist the idea that travel writing has got to be factual. Jan Morris
writing two giving
There are so many people who don't know small towns exist. When I write, I want to give my readers two things: one is a sense of consolation, and two, I want to make them laugh. Jan Karon
writing firsts hungry
My first novel is loaded with food references largely because my cupboards were bare, and I was writing hungry.
writing band
I write music. I'm in a band. Jamie Campbell Bower
writing winning thinking
It's hard to be a celebrity nowadays. It's not about your track record anymore. If you have a great movie, you're good. If not, people are ready to write you off. I think the only ones who are really winning are people like Will Smith. People go, 'Oh, it's Will Smith. I've got to see him, whatever he's in.' Jamie Foxx
writing kind notepads
I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person. James Vincent McMorrow
writing trying stuff
Hollywood is just so strange. It's like, everyone has a whole bunch of stuff boiling away and whichever one happens first, happens. That one, we're still in the process of, you know, trying to write the script. So, it's still very early stages at this point. Yeah. James Wan
writing matter clear
I am never as clear about any matter as when I have finished writing about it. James Van Allen
writing artist careers
An artist's career always begins tomorrow James Whistler
writing sick mind
Many suffer from the incurable disease of writing, and it becomes chronic in their sick minds. Juvenal
writing satire difficult
It is difficult not to write satire.
writing irresistible
Many have an irresistible itch for writing.
writing world satire
In the present state of the world it is difficult not to write lampoons.
writing insane possession
An incurable itch for scribbling takes possession of many, and grows inveterate in their insane breasts.
writing
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
writing hands ideas
Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake, and Baudelaire is to find her sadomasochism obvious and flagrant. Birds, bees, and amputated hands are the dizzy stuff of this poetry. Dickinson is like the homosexual cultist draping himself in black leather and chains to bring the idea of masculinity into aggressive visibility. Camille Paglia
writing thinking years
Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.
writing night brain
I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in. Caleb Carr
writing the-end-of-the-day quitting
At the end of the day, we have to write music that makes us happy and the day that we stop loving what we do…we’ll quit. Caleb Followill
writing want ends
In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper. Caitlin Moran
writing should-have dull
Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.