Quotes about writing
writing opportunity giving
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. John Hersey
writing singers performing
It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much. John Hiatt
writing creative missing
You know, I began my life as a creative person writing true things for magazines and telling some very honest, straightforward personal essaying for This American Life, but until someone forces you, with a deadline, to really observe your life - unless you're motivated to do it yourself - there's so many stories that you miss. John Hodgman
writing mind connections
When you're sitting down and you're blocked and you just start writing and something in your mind just clicks, you start seeing connections and so on, you really do feel like you're channeling something else.
writing long mind
For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.
writing superhero borges
My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.
writing mean years
More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.
writing years twenties
You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy. John Guare
writing play buttons
You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.
writing bridges house
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage. John Galsworthy
writing thinking men
As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
writing thinking people
I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music. John Frusciante
writing guitar play
I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead
writing firsts six
I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't. John Dos Passos
writing happens
Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.
writing creative different
There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should be experimenting on their own. Every writer faces different problems which he must solve for himself.
writing thinking discovery
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some particularly apt and original way of putting it down on paper.
writing mind phrases
The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.
writing lust rage
To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love. John Donne
writing scary important
Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up. John Edgar Wideman
writing scary messages
Even more precious is his Edward writes, I'm always saying that it is not the spirits who are getting it wrong; it's more likely that I am misinterpreting their messages. John Edward
writing order years
George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant. John Osborne
writing needs need-love
Writers don't need love; all they require is money.
writing thinking people
I do not wish to criticize any system that can nourish people’s spirits, but I find that a lot of New Age writing cherry-picks the attractive bits from the ancient traditions and makes collages of them; it usually excises the ascetic dimension. In general it is not rigorously thought out, but is what I would call “soft” thinking. John O'Donohue
writing down-and comedy
There are a lot of great jokes you can sit down and write, but that's just a written joke, versus the comedy of the situation. Ideally, you're pulling as much comedy out of the situation as you can. John Mulaney
writing done matter
I remember writing standup jokes without having done sets. But as soon as I did my first set, it didn't matter. Everything I thought would work didn't work. And everything I was iffy on was funny.
writing yogurt milk
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt. John Mortimer
writing important remember
It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.
writing found bores
The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.
writing hands knowing
This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand. John Milton
writing able
I've always been able to survive by writing, though. John Milius
writing skills people
Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
writing pride fate
Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate. John Denham