Quotes about writing
writing psychology actors
If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology. Maddie Hasson
writing want matter
In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. Gilbert K. Chesterton
writing play written
I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me. Holland Taylor
writing occupation consuming
Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming. Holly Johnson
writing littles biographies
I feel I have to live a little longer before I write a sequel to my auto biography which covers my experiences up until October 1991.
writing
You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more. Holly Black
writing eye voice
The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them. Hermann Ebbinghaus
writing challenges artistic
I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge. Herman Wouk
writing pages add
Write a page a day. It will add up.
writing broken trying
I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.
writing blue black
Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones. Hermann Hesse
writing feet able
If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet, my life would have no meaning and I would not have been able to write anything.
writing literature growing
Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.
writing superfluous
Many a poem is marred by a superfluous word. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
writing biographies
A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.
writing past milton
Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton.
writing heart looks
Look, then, into thine heart, and write!
writing numbers bird
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts since they are infinite in number. We must make a selection ... guided by utility ... Have we not some better occupation than counting the number of lady-birds in existence on this planet? Henri Poincare
writing written related
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through. Henrik Ibsen
writing feelings baths
Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
writing would-be use
The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs which never change, and which would be like writing: that would paralyze the freedom of my invention. Henri Matisse
writing boundaries connected
I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend ecclesial boundaries. Henri Nouwen
writing thinking ideas
People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.
writing journey space
The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know.
writing community solitude
Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.
writing thinking trying
I want the plot to be as complicated as possible. Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it makes sense. I don't think out the plot ahead of time. Heidi Julavits
writing fake challenges
As such, anything is always possible, even if your protagonist is a plumber. But it's the possibility, the limitless possibilities, of any fake life, that make writing about it so challenging.
writing psychics creative-space
Whether I'm writing about plumbers or psychics or psychic plumbers, I want to find a creative space that imprisons me usefully, so I can deviate with purpose.
writing different way
A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these different steps and tautologies. I approach novel writing that way. When I get to the end I have to go back and connect everything.
writing curiosity three
I wont deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to concentrate on one thing for a period of longer than three minutes. My curiosity is channeled inward rather than Internet-ward.
writing technology found-you
The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you. Hoagy Carmichael
writing hands silent
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand. Herta Muller
writing looks doe
Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.