Quotes about writing
writing editors praise
Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome. Christopher Hitchens
writing thinking self
I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.
writing apologizing forget
Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.
writing eye depth
Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it." Here we have a passage that designates the phenomenological direction I myself pursue. The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold. Gaston Bachelard
writing sound divorced
In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.
writing want world
The words of the world want to make sentences.
writing texas play
Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its many incarnations and under various leaders, they have demonstrated the highest qualities of musicianship imaginable, plus a willingness to balance their big band tradition with creative exploration. Astounding ensemble work, insightful interpretations of the arrangements, imaginative writing, and above all, a loving attention to musicality . . . these people play beautifully. Gary Burton
writing poetry making-love
Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love. Gao Xingjian
writing reality self
If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his observations will far surpass objective descriptions of reality.
writing profound want
I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.
writing people survival
For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.
writing self literature
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
writing suffering ease
Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
writing dry hungry
You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat Frederic Chopin
writing hair rocks
It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling, as pale as ever, in a cell with such doors as Paris never had for gates. The cell is the shape of a tall coffin, with an enormous dusty vaulting, a small window... Bach, my scrawls and waste paper - silence - you could scream - there would still be silence. Indeed, I write to you from a strange place.
writing might next
I might just write a novel next. I don't know! Frank Ocean
writing stories next
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.
writing home lions
I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den. Frank Miller
writing journalism shows
The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
writing strategy ifs
If you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy. George C. Marshall
writing editors editing
The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the editors, and then to have a first draft and get it back and work to fix it, I love reworking, I love editing, love love love revision, revision, revision, revision. George Carlin
writing composing sentences
I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.
writing alcohol add
I'm very happy by myself--I'm lucky in that way--if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit of alcohol for me to add an edge, not to dull it.
writing thinking views
Its much like writing a screenplay with someone else and thats how we view it, I think. Christopher Darden
writing thinking controversial
I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.
writing emotional thinking
I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.
writing play firsts
So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot. I find with my absurdist plays that I was actually writing about my family, but so disguised I didn't realize it myself. Christopher Durang
writing artist zest
An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to make creation possible; or an instinct to climb through his problems in his own way as he should, and must. Christopher Fry
writing floating rooms
Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing. Christine McVie
writing responsibility people
We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in personal introspection. We have enough common psychology under our belts to know that psychology doesn't explain or heal everything and that it isn't the fulfillment of awareness, but its beginning. We are undergoing a shift in paradigms in which we are trying to develop new models for humanness and human responsibility. This is no small task. Our individual lives are placed under increasing pressure to respond adequately to both inner and outer change. Christina Baldwin
writing creating lifetime
The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift.
writing journey maps
Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.
writing desire stories
Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.