Quotes about writing
writing age barcelona
I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write. Colm Toibin
writing firsts fountain
I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.
writing manipulation realizing
All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
writing people inspire
I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing. Common
writing organization association
I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations. Colum McCann
writing knows
I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.
writing waste scripts
I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time. Cliff Martinez
writing years two
Singer/songwriters spend two or three years making an album, and then it goes up for sale and everybody pirates it and you don't make any money. Whereas, writing a film score you still get presented with a paycheck.
writing cutting waste
For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.
writing want information
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code Clifford Geertz
writing research literature
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
writing done ends
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done
writing style academic
I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style
writing thinking anthropologists
I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist
writing luxury liberty
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing. Dwight Yoakam
writing names earth
Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores. Dwight L. Moody
writing sometimes rhyme
Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with. Courtney Barnett
writing common said
Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century. Coventry Patmore
writing cat thinking
I keep social with everyone because I want to know what's going on at every level. At the same time, if I'm not alone a certain amount of time per day then I'll go nuts, because I can't write and I can't think. I can't deal with people all the time. I like being alone. I'm a bit of a cat lady in that way. Courtney Love
writing needs produce
You need to write on your own and produce your own life.
writing blow toilets
Remember, if you write anything nasty about me, I'll come around and blow up your toilet.
writing rocks scripts
Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.
writing ideas sometimes
I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively solitary thing, but I do like coming up with ideas. Colin Hay
writing thinking always-trying
As you get older you don't want to just do the same thing, otherwise there's not much point. I think it's more or less trying to write things that, perhaps, say more by doing less, or you're always trying to refine things, make things a little simpler, a little more essential.
writing thinking years
I tend to write pretty much by myself. I always did that anyway. I used to write with Ron Strykert 'cause he was the only guitarist and we played well together. We lived in the same place. I would play a certain style and he would kind of dance around what I did, in a sense. I learned from him and also vice-versa. With this band, I think I bounce ideas off everybody. Perhaps on the next album they'll be more collaborative stuff, but for the last 2-3 years, I've been pretty well writing by myself.
writing
I write all the time - I write poetry, I love to write Colin Quinn
writing wanted
I always wanted to write as much as perform.
writing thinking want
You know how it is with writing. You just write what you want to write. There's no way to predict what is good or bad. You just do what you think is funny, and either it works or you're finished. It's impossible to predict anything.
writing thinking wish
I wish I could keep a journal. I have a lot of journals with one page half written in. I sometimes will write myself a quick email on my Blackberry when I think of something. Louis C. K.
writing college artist
The Jackass movies are honestly some of the best movies I've ever seen. I laugh so hard at them. Those guys are geniuses. If they had grown up with a different group of people, they could've been performance artists at Bard College, and people would be writing papers about them.
writing important stories
I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones, and you're a lot more likely to find one of the latter than the former your first time through the tale. Orson Scott Card
writing sixteen lasts
Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
writing impact essentials
Short stories are designed to deliver their impact in as few pages as possible. A tremendous amount is left out, and a good short story writer learns to include only the most essential information.