Quotes about writing
writing careers pleasant
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely. Then see what happens. Most of my friends who are put on that diet have very pleasant careers. Ray Bradbury
writing stories week
Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
writing tablets clay
I like to write my lyrics on clay tablets. Randy Newman
writing thinking years
Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career. Randy Johnson
writing stuff personal-stuff
Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
writing important sometimes
Sometimes what I'm writing is more important to me than the rest of my life. It's more important to me that I'm writing well than anything else.
writing paper stuff
I like the performing. And interviews, even. And the stuff that's not sitting in a room by yourself with empty paper. But I never loved writing, to tell you the truth.
writing creativity thinking
I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it. Randa Abdel-Fattah
writing rights passionate
With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals - about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights. I find the time to do things to do things I'm passionate about, because I find enjoyment in them. I just have to juggle.
writing reality writing-fiction
When I'm writing about reality, I'm writing about death. When I'm writing fiction, I'm writing about life. Ralph Peters
writing heart roots
Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write? Rainer Maria Rilke
writing long lines
with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, right at the end, one could perhaps write ten lines that are good.
writing use stranger
I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers.
writing long house
Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing.
writing night answers
Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer.
writing order law
The president is supposed to execute faithfully the laws that the legislature has written. So, the executive orders that Barack Obama president is writing are without precedent. Without precedent so with he's rewriting law. It's totally illegal.
writing ideas good-and-bad
My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that. Shaun Cassidy
writing years records
It's hard if you're just touring constantly. It's like, "What am I going to write about? I'm in the van, I'm playing another show..." I'm still writing about heartbreak that happened years ago. I don't see the point of writing and putting out another record until I can do something else. Sharon Van Etten
writing self intense
I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.
writing views culture
In writing of Indian culture, I am highly conscious of my own subjectivity; arguably, there is more than one Indian culture, and certainly more than one view of Indian culture. Shashi Tharoor
writing years scripts
For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles. Shane Black
writing broken starting-out
Here's what I didn't know when I was starting out that I now know…I thought when you were starting out it was really hard to write because you hadn't broken in yet, you hadn't really hit your stride yet. What I found out paradoxically is that the next script you write doesn't get easier because you wrote one before…each one gets harder by a factor of 10.
writing math together
I feel like math and writing are the same thing. You're putting together a lot of complex things to satisfy different requirements. It's got to be aesthetically pleasing; it's got to have subtext; it's got to convey information. Shane Carruth
writing helping-others thinking
I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still in love with writing and directing.
writing thinking interesting
When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what I realized was that I don't write inner monologue. I don't want to talk about what somebody is thinking or feeling. I wanted to try to show it in an interesting way. And so what I realized was that I was really writing a screenplay.
writing ideas symphony
It seemed to me that had Haydn lived to our day he would have retained his own style while accepting something of the new at the same time. That was the kind of symphony I wanted to write: a symphony in the classical style. And when I saw that my idea was beginning to work, I called it the Classical Symphony. Sergei Prokofiev
writing screenplays havens
I'm currently writing a screenplay that I haven't started yet. Serena Williams
writing mind want
I've been writing, but I haven't been writing. In my mind I've been saying I want to write, but I haven't actually physically picked up a pencil and started writing.
writing ongoing process
It's sort of one ongoing process where writing ends and directing starts. Sean Durkin
writing please
You can't write something to please someone.
writing matter no-matter-what
When you write, no matter what, it ends up personal.
writing impulse ifs
The thing about writing is that if you have the impulse, you will find the time. Seamus Heaney
writing self giving
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing.