Quotes about writing
writing men light
A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light. Solomon Ibn Gabirol
writing past hindsight
I write a lot about the past because I really see things clearly in hindsight. Skylar Grey
writing rooms bigs
When it comes to actually writing, I like to write in a full room with the amps blasting, and a big drum set. Slash
writing years long
I've been on the road for so long that it's a part of my being. Even after all these years, I love playing. I love recording. I love writing. I love rehearsing. I love touring. I love all that stuff.
writing thinking goal
I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this unnatural medium of print and then trying to reach through that and actually convey what's going on, what you think, and make people laugh and recognize themselves while doing it. Definitely the laughing thing. Sloane Crosley
writing weekend vacation
I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.
writing emotional thinking
Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.
writing home night
The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending.
writing two voice
I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in one day and I told the story to some friends, one of whom worked in the 'Village Voice' and asked me to turn it into an essay.
writing different type
I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing. Sky Ferreira
writing i-can courses
She asked me could I read and write. I told her, "Of course, and I can talk too. Sister Souljah
writing guitar crap
I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own. Siobhan Fahey
writing
You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success. Sissy Spacek
writing fiction remember
Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened. Siri Hustvedt
writing assumption
There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.
writing thinking people
I do as much bookish research as I can but when I sit down to write, often I think, 'Wait, I was there.' That is one of the great advantages of having wandered around the world and lived in so many places and met such fascinating people. Simon Winchester
writing royal irony
Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty. Simon Van Booy
writing scientist
Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist. Sinclair Lewis
writing safe polite
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
writing secret use
Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.
writing long people
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
writing player giving
My favorite way of working is if somebody gives me a piece of music, because I'm quite limited as a player, so it's my favorite thing if somebody gives me a piece of music, and then I can write lyrics and melodies. Sinead O'Connor
writing past want
There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about.
writing cutting dark
People have a very limited idea of what being creative is - playing the guitar or the flute or writing poetry - so people go on writing rubbish in the name of poetry. You have to find out what you can do and what you cannot do. Everybody cannot do everything. You have to search and find your destiny. You have to grope in the dark, I know. It is not very clear-cut what your destiny is, but that's how life is. And it is good that one has to search for it - in the very search, something grows. Rajneesh
writing men rights
I can do as much work as any man ... We do as much, we eat as much, we want as much. What we want is a little money. You men know that you get as much again as women when you write, or for what you do. When we get our rights, we shall not have to come to you for money, for then we shall have money enough of our own. Sojourner Truth
writing thinking
I like to write things to be personal, so I just put what I'm thinking about at the time. Sofia Coppola
writing mind matter
Beethoven was just music, and it didn't matter if he could hear it or not - he could feel it. He could hear it in his mind. He could write it down hearing it in his mind. He was just music. Yeah, he's one of my favorite writers of all times. Smokey Robinson
writing going-away accents
I understand English; I read and write English perfectly, but the accent won't go away. Sofia Vergara
writing men difficulty
Improve yourself by other men's writings thus attaining effortlessly what they acquired through great difficulty. Socrates
writing forever
Many debt collectors offer a lump sum option so ask. And if you get it, make sure it's in writing and you keep the payoff statement FOREVER.
writing acceptance past
Writing and singing does give me some kind of release from the demons of my past, it is a therapy of sorts, but to be honest, my marriage played a more important role in the acceptance of myself than performance has ever done. Michelle Shocked
writing vcr house
I used to go over to my friend's house and we'd watch VCR tapes, three of them a day, and I was like, "I could come up with better stories than this." And I've wanted to write films ever since. Michelle Rodriguez
writing epidemics medicine
I started to write about science and medicine at the Washington Post, in the early days of the AIDS epidemic. Michael Specter