Quotes about writing
writing poet pardon
I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets. George Eliot
writing taking-a-break columns
It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written. Ferdinand Mount
writing sick drink
Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you. Fernando Pessoa
writing thinking people
I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.
writing language portuguese
I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
writing tired cat
I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said.
writing men drunk
If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as.
writing
When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
writing people kind
The hope that they have legs. That's the biggest fear you always have creating new people. You love them, but then they kind of dissipate. Sometimes you don't get to write them as much as you'd like, like me and Harper Row. Scott Snyder
writing creative drug
Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative. Scott Caan
writing paper pads
But with writing, all you need is a pad of paper.
writing film direct
Not write, maybe develop. Direct, sure. As an actor, you work on so many films, you sort of start to see who directs well and who doesn't. Scott Eastwood
writing mean people
The reason business writing is horrible is that people are afraid. Afraid to say what they mean, because they might be criticized for it. Afraid to be misunderstood, to be accused of saying what they didn't mean, because they might be criticized for it. Seth Godin
writing talking eggs
But this is a remarkable egg, an egg worth talking about, an egg worth crossing the street for, an egg worth writing about.
writing decision trying
I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.
writing boys novelists
The second person to write a story about a young boy and an escaped slave on the Mississippi wasn't a novelist, he was a typist.
writing waste wasting-time
Don't waste time looking for a better pencil: learn to write better.
writing who-i-am singing
Singing is just another outlet to express what I feel and to show everyone who I really am. I really don't talk about my personal life that much in interviews because that's my life, but with music, the way I write explains who I am. Raven-Symone
writing artist blink-182
We just write down a bunch of words, and pray to god they make sense. And if we don't, it doesn't matter, we're artists Tom DeLonge
writing rocks guitar
When I write in the studio, I tend to gravitate toward the ability to play really loud, aggressive, post-punk stuff, with big, heavy guitars and a big rock drum sound.
writing people journalist
A good journalist is not the one that writes what people say, but the one that writes what he is supposed to write. Todor Zhivkov
writing character emotional
Some people see me as dissecting my characters in some kind of heartless, coldblooded, analytical way, when in truth making these movies is a passionate, intensely emotional experience for me. I'm detached from the characters only to the degree that I have to be in order to write honestly about them. Todd Solondz
writing want stories
One thing I want to say: I don't like victim stories and I don't write them.
writing awards academy-awards
I got nominated for an Academy Award(R) for writing 'Borat.' Todd Phillips
writing nyu cheesy
I remember that when I got to NYU, everyone was writing scripts. But I was 18 at the time, and when you write a script, so much of it is about what you pull from life, and this sounds sort of cheesy, but I felt like I didn't have enough life experience at that point to write a movie.
writing people subjectivity
The nature of my work is my subjectivity meshed with other people's subjectivity. So there's a correspondence with that... Even if you write about me, it will reflect on you; everything is a kind of weird collaboration. Tino Sehgal
writing heart guy
I never thought about writing the part where the pirates get on board the ship. I wasn't interested in that. I'm not an action director. I'm sure that other guys could do it a lot better. I couldn't put my heart into it. Tobias Lindholm
writing middle hardest
Everybody can write a beginning and an ending, but to actually define that middle point where everything will go from professional to person, where everything will change, is always the hardest part, because it can very easily be too constructed, too artificial.
writing men age
Writing is all a lottery -- I have been a loser by the works of the greatest men of the age. Tobias Smollett
writing men light
A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light. Solomon Ibn Gabirol
writing past hindsight
I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight. Skylar Grey
writing rooms bigs
When it comes to actually writing, I like to write in a full room with the amps blasting, and a big drum set. Slash
writing years long
I've been on the road for so long that it's a part of my being. Even after all these years, I love playing. I love recording. I love writing. I love rehearsing. I love touring. I love all that stuff.