Quotes about writing
writing black peculiar
I'm writing out of desperation. I felt compelled to write to make sense of it to myself - so I don't end up saying peculiar things like 'I'm black and I'm proud.' I write so I don't end up as a set of slogans and clichés. Jamaica Kincaid
writing important crafts
What I don't write is as important as what I write.
writing thinking garden
When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.
writing goes-on revision
I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.
writing people feelings
I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.
writing
I tend to write more when I travel. Jaime Winstone
writing work-out trying
When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it. Jacques Audiard
writing imagine easy
Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing? Jacqueline Woodson
writing knowing feelings
Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind.
writing thinking giving
I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world and sometimes giving isn't always the easiest thing to do but it comes back.
writing secret facts
No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing. Jacques Derrida
writing feelings stronger
Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write.
writing order years
During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to forbid photographs, it was not at all in order to mark a sort of blank, absence, or disappearance of the image; it was because the code that dominates at once the production of these images, the framing they are made to undergo, the social implications (showing the writer's head framed in front his bookshelves, the whole scenario) seemed to me to be, first of all, terribly boring, but also contrary to what I am trying to write and to work on.
writing language traditional
The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.
writing opposites names
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way Jacques Barzun
writing bad-writing scholarship
Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.
writing race political
Let us face a pluralistic world in which there are no universal churches, no single remedy for all diseases, no one way to teach or write or sing, no magic diet, no world poets, and no chosen races, but only the wretched and wonderfully diversified human race.
writing simple thinking
I've got a lot of wonderfully talented, creative directors I've worked with in Texas, but the market we're in, they kind of have to write to that. I think we've done some cool, simple spots. I was very comfortable in Texas, and getting ready to push out into national stuff, try to get to that national-type creative, and then I got sidetracked with this stuff. Jackie Earle Haley
writing redneck thinking
Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing. Jackie DeShannon
writing missing together
I don't want to take all the time. I just want to do what you wrote and let me go from there. I don't want to miss something. You know, I'm not really a writer per se, but I can write. But I can't put a script together like they can. Jackee Harry
writing materials my-own
I like writing my own material - Im pretty good at it.
writing thinking vanity
I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught. Jackie Collins
writing numbers different
There's always things that you know about that nobody else, because everybody's life is different. So you write about what you know. That's number one.
writing want storyteller
I'm a storyteller; I write what I want to read.
writing people secret
A lot of people talk about writing. The secret is to write, not talk.
writing color people
I'm a storyteller, I'm not a literary writer, and I don't want to be a literary writer. People say to me, "Oh, when are you going to write something different?" What? I don't want to write anything different. I'm writing relationships between people, all different colors, all different sizes, all different sexual orientations, and that's what I want to do.
writing thinking style
Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.
writing want scripts
When I make a film - I direct my own film, I write my own script - that's what I want to hear from the audience. 'Oh, thank you, Jackie!' Jackie Chan
writing thinking ideas
I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing. Jack Whitehall
writing thinking people
Some people consider the way Shakespeare was writing about Ophelia as erotomania-that she was delusional in thinking that Hamlet was in love with her. But I don't think so. Jack White
writing long sopranos
The Sopranos all came down to the writing. I wouldn't have been on for as long as I was if the writing weren't so good. James Gandolfini
writing sometimes good-writing
Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.
writing people negative
I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it. James Frey