Quotes about writing
writing house comforting
My ideal life is just lounging around the house and every once in a while I'll kind of write something, and then I'll leave and eat something and masturbate or whatever - just this very fluid life of comforting myself. Miranda July
writing thinking hypnosis
When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that I'm thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It's one element of hypnosis.
writing years dramatic-situations
Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write poems that are misunderstood. A drunk, a three-year-old-they are easily misunderstood. What is difficult is being clear and mysterious at the same time. The dramatic situation needs to be as clear in a poem as it is in a piece of good journalism. The why is part of the mystery, but the who, what, where, and when should all be understood. Miller Williams
writing upset
I really want my agent to make sure they write a part in the next Airbender movie for me. I'll be really upset if I don't get to be a waterbender or something. Milla Jovovich
writing typewriters names
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought. Mignon McLaughlin
writing
Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.
writing pages leafs
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
writing talent
It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics. Johnny Mercer
writing waste baskets
You must write for the waste basket.
writing years age
I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work. John Woolman
writing thinking hymns
In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us. John Ruskin
writing reader skip
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
writing law genius
There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.
writing thinking able
To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.
writing leaving pieces
Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there. John Prine
writing men names
A barbarian who could not write a sentence of grammar and hardly could spell his own name.... One of our tribe of great men who turn disease to commodity...he craves the sympathy for sickness as a portion of his glory. John Quincy Adams
writing rocks pieces
When you're writing for theater or TV, it's open-ended in scope. You can write 10 separate pieces that are really effective but have no place on a rock record or whatever.
writing doors people
People ask, `What was it like when you wrote Stairway to Heaven?' As if three wisemen had come knocking on the door, `Excuse me, are you writing Stairway to Heaven here?' John Paul Jones
writing people house
If you put someone in a room with no script to direct, they're just going to sit there. Writing scripts is the execution for a show. Then the director takes that and hires people. It's like trying to build a house without any bricks. You need a great script. John Patrick Shanley
writing thinking people
When I write a screenplay - and I think this is true for a lot of people - you direct the movie. Thats what writing a screenplay is.
writing soul holiness
What then is holiness? Holiness is nothing but the implanting, writing and living out of the gospel in our souls (Eph 4:24). John Owen
writing acting stories
And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time. Joan Collins
writing thinking shopping
I can't think of anything I would rather not - rather do than get up and not do anything. I have to do something. Whether it is painting, writing, acting, shopping, going to the gym, being with friends, going out - I just am a very active person. I have a lot of friends and I travel a lot.
writing house magic
I do not worship the devil. But magic does intrigue me. Magic of all kinds. I bought Crowley's house to go up and write in. The thing is, I just never get up that way. Friends live there now. Jimmy Page
writing plot things-are-not-what-they-seem
There is only one plot-things are not what they seem. Jim Thompson
writing two plot
There are thirty-two ways to write a story, and I’ve used every one, but there is only one plot – things are not as they seem.
writing thinking stuff
I love failure. It's stuff that I'm thinking about all the time in my life, so it would make sense to me anyway to write about it. Loudon Wainwright III
writing careers growing
I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.
writing generations want
I write whatever shows up. That's good enough for me. I'm part of the first generation that wants to still do original material and not tour around as an oldies act. Lou Reed
writing play rocks
I don't like the word rock opera, but I'm trying to write on that level that's reserved for plays still, or novels.
writing rock-and-roll rocks
All I want to do, is write rock and roll that you could listen to as you got older, and it wouldn't lose anything; it would be timeless, in the subject matter and the literacy of the lyrics.
writing quiet-moments waiting
A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to savor the message. There is an element of timelessness about letter writing ... Lois Wyse
writing letters making-time
Letters remind us that when we write we can bring back the best of times, even make time stand still, if only for a few minutes.