Quotes about writing
writing play people
What most of us must be involved in--whether we teach or write, make films, write films, direct films, play music, act, whatever we do--has to not only make people feel good and inspired and at one with other people around them, but also has to educate a new generation to do this very modest thing: change the world. Howard Zinn
writing people lines
History is instructive. And what it suggests to people is that even if they do little things, if they walk on the picket line, if they join a vigil, if they write a letter to their local newspaper. Anything they do, however small, becomes part of a much, much larger sort of flow of energy. And when enough people do enough things, however small they are, then change takes place.
writing crafts stories
When you're writing a novel, you're still telling a story. But you're telling it very differently. It's a craft like anything else. Howard Gordon
writing novel overwhelming
I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.
writing literature yeats
When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats. Howard Nemerov
writing thinking different
When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do.
writing dying way
The only way out is the way through, just as you cannot escape death except by dying. Being unable to write, you must examine in writing this being unable, which becomes for the present -henceforth?- the subject to which you are condemned.
writing should knows
Write what you know. That should leave you with a lot of free time.
writing paper firsts
Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.
writing stories paid
When you're a writer, you have to write these stories, even if you don't get paid Horton Foote
writing props
Writing is the thing that props me up.
writing lessons firsts
If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen.
writing past thinking
But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why it happened, knowing I'll never really know. I think all the writers that I admire have this same desire, the desire to bring order out of chaos.
writing most-powerful written
What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am. Hortense Calisher
writing phrases stories
It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.
writing mind shapes
The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
writing ideas acting
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
writing dark light
When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it. Howard Barker
writing secret sound
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment. Horace
writing thinking transcription
Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live. Hank Azaria
writing want type
I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only once. And that goes relatively quickly, since it really depends only on how fast I type. Hannah Arendt
writing excellence
For excellence, the presence of others is always required.
writing singing kind
I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing. Guy Clark
writing lasts firsts
Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident. Guy Garvey
writing small-numbers drunk
Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly known how to do best is drink. Even though I have read a lot, I have drunk even more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk much more than most people who drink. Guy deBord
writing drunk people
I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.
writing expression ideas
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
writing giving verbs
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it. Guy de Maupassant
writing reflection men
The reflection and experience of many years have led me to consider the holy writings not only as the most authentic and instructive in themselves, but as the clue to all other history. They tell us what man is, and they alone tell us why he is what he is: a contradictory creature that seeing and approving of what is good, pursues and performs what is evil. All of private and public life is there displayed. ... From the same pure fountain of wisdom we learn that vice destroys freedom; that arbitrary power is founded on public immorality. Gouverneur Morris
writing goes-on television
I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television. Gore Vidal
writing icy said
I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).
writing track done
I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.
writing thinking imagine
Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!