Quotes about writing
writing different letters
Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail. Keanu Reeves
writing thinking literature
What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now. Kazuo Ishiguro
writing ivory people
I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.
writing doe energy
There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.
writing past thinking
There's still a part of me that thinks I have to write a really good novel. I'm not trying to say I'm not happy with the novels I've written in the past. But it always feels to me like there's another one that I have to write that will really say what I want to say, and really paint this world that I can see hazily in my head.
writing past thinking
History is what we read, write and think about the past. Michael Howard
writing acting lessons
I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing. Michael Ironside
writing savages conducting
When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of course it feels personal. It doesn't feel like it's just business, because there's no business - it's not like we're conducting business, this anonymous critic and I. It's just that this person is tearing me a new asshole. Michael Ian Black
writing thinking order
I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps to provide perspective.
writing publish
Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is.
writing done debt
Throughout history, the only way of restoring stability is to write down the debts. That is treated now as if it's something that can't be done. But it's the only thing that's going to revive the economy.
writing shrinking debt
Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in purchasing power - that is, shrinking markets.
writing polite explicit
We're in a chronic debt-deflation. There's no way we can recover unless you write down the debts. And that's what the IMF basically is implying (and it was explicit regarding Greece), but its not spelling it out, because that's not what can be said in polite company.
writing drug complicated
The most surprising and rewarding chapter to write was the Butthole Surfers chapter. I'd always thought of them as a bunch of drug-addled reprobates - which maybe they were - but it turned out to be more complicated than that. Michael Azerrad
writing issues trying
I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about. Michael Arrington
writing stuff reader
Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.
writing honest faster
The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. Ray Bradbury
writing facts rich
We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.
writing years poetry
Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!
writing ideas heard
I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.
writing groove feudalism
If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.
writing given
All of my writing is God-given.
writing important helping
If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
writing reason ifs
I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.
writing exercise scary
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.
writing years two
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year
writing four pages
Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about.
writing passion names
I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing at the novel, I realized that Montag is named after a paper manufacturing company. And Faber, of course, is a maker of pencils! What a sly thing my subconscious was, to name them thus. And not tell me!
writing trying stories
Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.
writing gun knives
Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.
writing littles
A day without writing was a little death.
writing home night
Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I've written every day in the last 75 years. I've never stopped writing.
writing thinking looks
If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.