Quotes about writing
writing cells vanity
Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. Logan Pearsall Smith
writing gay wings
What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.
writing self schedules
Writing is self employment, so you can make your own schedule. Lois Lowry
writing ignorance evil
...Writings can be stolen, or changed, or used for evil purposes. But isn't the risk worth taking? The more people who share knowledge, the greater safeguard for it. Isn't there more danger in ignorance than knowledge? Lloyd Alexander
writing reality novel
I write novels because there is something I don't understand in reality. Manuel Puig
writing order imagination
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
writing fantasy memoir
My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
writing film cases
I write for somebody who has my own limitations. My reader has a certain difficulty with concentrating, which in my case comes from being a film viewer.
writing thinking reader
Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
writing simple ukulele
I started writing movie scripts. They excited me a lot, but I didn't like them when they were finished because they were simple copies of the films I saw in childhood.
writing creativity color
When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider world, where colors are brighter, sounds clearer, and people more wondrously complex than we normally realize. Madeleine L'Engle
writing thinking want
If you want to write . . . keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you. Where you just put down what you think about life, what you think about things, what you think is fair and what you think is unfair.
writing
You learn to write by doing it.
writing want needs
If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.
writing discipline effort
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
writing artist way
When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen to his work, and so he often wrote better than he could write; Bach composed more deeply, more truly than he knew, Rembrandt's brush put more of the human spirit on canvas than Rembrandt could comprehend. When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.
writing half littles
Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.
writing given form
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit
writing world paint
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
writing past style
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past. Lytton Strachey
writing men creation-of-man
Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.
writing doe world
The rule is: the word 'it's' (with apostrophe) stands for 'it is' or 'it has'. If the word does not stand for 'it is' or 'it has' then what you require is 'its'. This is extremely easy to grasp. Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation. No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, 'Good food at it's best', you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave. Lynne Truss
writing lightning good-food
If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.
writing important lines
Basically, I just want to make movies and maybe even produce TV later down the line, do some writing, maybe a tour with my music. And start a family! That's really important to me. Lucy Hale
writing stories breaking-down
I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.
writing water ifs
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us. Lucy Larcom
writing echoes trying
Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth Lucy Maud Montgomery
writing character men
I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have villains at all, I'd give them a chance, Anne--I'd give them a chance. There are some terrible bad men the world, I suppose, but you'd have to go a long piece to find them...But most of us have got a little decency somewhere in us. Keep on writing, Anne.
writing want said
Make them do as you want them to," she said. "I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.
writing born
You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
writing names paper
When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.
writing knowing good-writing
The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
writing funeral lines
never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.