Quotes about writing
writing holocaust magazines
I know that DER SPIEGEL is a respected magazine. But I don't know whether it is possible for you to publish the truth about the Holocaust. Are you permitted to write everything about it? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
writing action academic
I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain. Mahatma Gandhi
writing thinking may
At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth.
writing army thinking
My whole life experience feeds into my writing. I think that must be true for every writer. Clearly the Army and combat were major influences; just the same, you need to understand that many of the writers we have now couldn't load a revolver. Gene Wolfe
writing almost-perfect two
Some writers say they cannot write in front of a window; many say they cannot function without almost perfect quiet. A writer with only two hours a day can write in the back of an open truck on the Interstate.
writing people listening
I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can see, people read it when they were half stoned and listening to the TV. Then they come back and say gee, it's impossible to figure out what's going on in a story.
writing fiction-stories would-be
I could speculate, but it would be just speculation and the kind of thing that you would get in with a science fiction story. And if I was doing a science fiction story then I would come up with what can go wrong with this system.
writing two stories
Have a short story feature two situations, and then let them solve each other.
writing novel
You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.
writing responsibility today
There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC. Gavyn Davies
writing names composer
I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer. Gavin Bryars
writing century 19th-century
Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
writing thinking oboes
I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder.
writing thinking turns
I write and rewrite and rewrite and write and like to turn in what I think is finished work Gay Talese
writing college example
For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work
writing junkie
I'm like a junkie for writing. Gavin DeGraw
writing school college
I always knew when I graduated from high school I’d go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from . . . I just wanted to study literature and writing. Gaby Hoffmann
writing discovery feelings
When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings. Gail Carson Levine
writing bores-you ems
If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.
writing play ideas
You see, writing down your meanderings gets something started deep in the recesses of your brain. That distant part of your mind knows that you want to write stories or poems or plays and not endless jabber, and it will get to work. It may take a while. You may have to write this stuff for hours or days or weeks, but eventually that subterranean part of your brain will come through and begin to send you ideas.
writing sometimes my-favorite
I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing.
writing skills trying
Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It's not like a trumpet where you have to get some skill before you can even produce a sound. It's misleading because it's hard to make stories. It seems like it should be easy to do but it's not. The more you write, the better you're going to get. Write and write and write. Try not to be hard on yourself.
writing process hardest
I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
writing people narrative
Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative. Gail Collins
writing government sight
I write about how in Midland, the mayor instituted water conservation measures like restrictions on car washing. He made a point though that they were only "suggestions" and not government telling people what to do. But then his constituents got very ticked off at the sight of their neighbors breaking the rules and demanded that they be made into actual laws with penalties.
writing grandmother florida
Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. Gabrielle Zevin
writing people perfect
The most important thing in writing process is the vibe cause if you on a roll, if you feel it you just feel it. And it's all about the atmosphere, the people around you, you know, everything. You got to be clear headed in that and have a perfect atmosphere. French Montana
writing night keys
A secretary is not a thing Wound by key, pulled by string. Her pad is to write in, And not spend the night in, If that's what you plan to enjoy. Frank Loesser
writing produce i-can
Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct. Frank Langella
writing performing
I'm more interested in writing than in performing. Frank McCourt
writing kissing epic
whether they'll write the story of my life as a tragedy or an epic fantasy... I was wondering if it was going to be a kiss at the end, or sad music and a sweeping camera shot over the fields I once roamed freely. I'm hoping for the kiss, but expecting the sweeping camera shot. Maggie Stiefvater
writing people belief
I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.
writing like-you ends
In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.