Quotes about writing
writing self arrogant
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant. Jeanette Winterson
writing goes-on
I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.
writing fiction stories
Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
writing thinking way
The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez, they're not bound in the same sort of way. They don't come out of the classic 19th-century novel, which is where all the problems start. 19th-century novels are fabulous and we should all read them, but we shouldn't write them.
writing two kind
...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.
writing band titles
For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles. Jim Capaldi
writing two feelings
If you have words and want to write music for them, the words hit you with a feeling which you can't really describe in words, and so what you do is to put music to them and in this way you make contact with the words, through the musical thing. It happens when two feelings come together and they do something together and they compliment each other.
writing thinking sweat
After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.
writing years hundred
Charles Dickens was an incredibly cinematic writer. He wrote this one hundred years before there were movies. He writes very thematically. It is amazing. Jim Carrey
writing knowing goal
Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself. Jewel
writing telling-the-truth vulnerable
I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That's where I learned to tell the truth when I was young.
writing
I don't exist without writing.
writing feelings secret
Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.
writing people fiction
That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal. Jesmyn Ward
writing average watches
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day. Jerzy Kosinski
writing attention language
I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.
writing islands video
If somebody writes a review of a dry cleaner, that piece of content is not wildly viral. It's not like a viral video that can spread across the world in a matter of minutes, so as a result, each market is almost an island unto itself. Jeremy Stoppelman
writing apollo culture
Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the sense one often gets from traditionalist writings in education. . . . But without Dionysus he will never make and remake a culture. Jerome Bruner
writing hills problem
I had a problem with cops pulling me over all the time for speeding. When I was doing Hill Street Blues, the cops said how much they loved the show as they were writing me up; meanwhile my insurance went through the roof. Jennifer Tilly
writing being-in-love luxury
Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury! Jennifer Stone
writing
If you get the you-are-a-genius label, it can limit you. Because I'm not so scrutinized, I have more freedom. And that let's me write what I want. Jennifer Weiner
writing enjoy take-time
I'm going to continue writing. I'll always be a storyteller. But I'm also taking time to enjoy my life.
writing men fiction
If you write thrillers or mysteries or horror fiction or quote-unquote speculative fiction, men might read you, and the 'Times' might notice you.
writing kids thinking
I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?
writing college years
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
writing stories novel
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?
writing ongoing sitting
Writing let me escape... It let me escape the insistent tug of my family, and its ongoing misery. Sitting in front of the computer, with the screen blank and the cursor blinking, was the best escape I knew. And there was plenty to escape from.
writing wish would-be
If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.
writing presumptuous
The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.
writing feelings chicks
My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.
writing important hours
Do I want to spend my diminished working hours writing or answering email? Now I have somebody read through them. If someone has something really important to tell me I write back. Otherwise they get the auto reply.
writing stem reader
Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader. Jen Lancaster
writing seven
And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven. Jena Malone