Quotes about writing
writing hard-times writing-music
I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour. Avicii
writing levels lasts
I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it. Axl Rose
writing grandmother iron
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious.... The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
writing people realizing
I don't know if people realize how much I tour and how much time I spend writing, but I really enjoy it. Avril Lavigne
writing home piano
Whenever I'm done with an album cycle, I still wanna write music. If I'm bored when I'm at home, which never happens, my first instinct is to go to the piano and bang something out.
writing thinking worry
I'm just coming out and I'm going to clearly be myself - I write what I feel, I never worry what others think.
writing who-i-am years
Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage. Arthur Godfrey
writing past men
As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past. Arthur Golden
writing simple men
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.
writing done facts
Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else. Arthur Conan Doyle
writing want copies
If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
writing thinking people
Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think. Arthur Brisbane
writing sadness goal
There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends. Arthur C. Clarke
writing thinking answers
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
writing play judging
Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one. Anton Chekhov
writing literature young
It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
writing artist two
Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.
writing paper should
A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.
writing play theatre
The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.
writing long mind
I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.
writing important eternal
Write only of what is important and eternal.
writing play judging
One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions,
writing communes conscience
I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.
writing simple men
When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.
writing want example
Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.
writing break fingers
Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
writing foolish thinker
He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
writing thinking soul
It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
writing intelligent men
If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am lost, I am lost; there is no doubt of that.
writing reality thinking
One difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or class, is that the intent is to change how people think of a certain political reality; whereas with cultural criticism, the goal is to illuminate something that is already there. bell hooks
writing thinking focus
My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's where I am, wherever I am. Critical thinking and writing as my heartbeat.
writing love-is thinking
When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.
writing should performing
Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.