Quotes about writing
writing effort letters
A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend. Billy Strayhorn
writing unique order
In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.
writing enjoy
I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy. Billy Sherwood
writing wells
So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.
writing years albums
I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project. Bill Mumy
writing scripts harder
If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something. Bill Murray
writing thinking gambling
I don't think there's an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It's just that you're standing up. Bill Nighy
writing dissertation
I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation. Bill O'Reilly
writing way serious
The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time.
writing talking paper
Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say. Beryl Bainbridge
writing tree woods
You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen. Bertolt Brecht
writing clothes feelings
I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
writing average long
A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of "correctness". The literary definition would substitute, for the average hearer, a person of high education living a long time ago; the purpose of this definition is to make it difficult to speak or write correctly. Bertrand Russell
writing men history
A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.
writing men blood
To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
writing precise
Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.
writing thinking careers
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career. Bernard Cornwell
writing occupation solitary
Writing is a solitary occupation.
writing wind sometimes
Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true. Chad Kroeger
writing thinking down-and
Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it. Cecily von Ziegesar
writing trying care
I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care. Cass McCombs
writing musician folk-music
I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.
writing trying performing
I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.
writing giving people
I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.
writing feelings mind
Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
writing poetry literature
Always be a poet, even in prose. Charles Baudelaire
writing stuff emotion
I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions. Chantal Kreviazuk
writing thinking people
If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.
writing thinking historical-novels
Historical novels are about costumery. I think that's the magic and mystery of fiction. I don't want to write historical fiction but I do want the story to have the feel of history. There's a difference. Chang-Rae Lee
writing issues trying
I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of how I feel about the issues of the day, but I guess I don't want to write essays in my head about my craft and maybe it's because I teach and talk about craft of other writers as a reader. I feel the moment I start doing that is when it's going to kill me.
writing thinking people
I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about it, the less free I feel when I write and when I work.
writing thinking novelists
Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels are about. Sometimes you feel like certain novelists are like that.
writing thinking perspective
Not to any really influential effect, but certainly there have been comments that have surprised me. It's surprising sometimes to get particular perspectives on your work, and it's enlightening sometimes to know that non-writers and readers out there have certain assumptions about everything that I both want to keep in mind and want to forget about why I write, and about the connection between me as a private person and the stuff that I think about on the page.