Quotes about writing
writing different culture
For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages. Paulo Coelho
writing use internet
As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.
writing intelligent frustrated
When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.
writing world solitary
Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.
writing years enlightenment-and-love
I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
writing intelligent soul
I only write to understand myself better... I don't try to show how intelligent or how cultivated I am, I just try to share my soul. Sharing is part of life.
writing feelings forget
Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before and even if I never do so again, I will at least know that I once had the courage to put my feelings into words.
writing heart advice
I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart.
writing fighting actors
Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time. Marlon Brando
writing agony eight
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
writing ideas havens
I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating. Marisha Pessl
writing forever band
Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of.
writing favors serious
God, the boring relative everyone ignores--no one calls, no one writes--until they need a serious favor.
writing drawing talking
Drawing - it's the first language of human beings, before writing, before even talking, before words, human beings was drawing. Marjane Satrapi
writing email knows
I almost don't know how to write an email.
writing thinking interesting
I think with pictures; I'm a very lousy writer. If I write without pictures, I become this pathetic chick sitting somewhere trying to be interesting.
writing drawing firsts
The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.
writing drawing life-and-death
For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.
writing actors want
Business is very personal. For me, everything is extremely personal. With actors, the fact that I write helps, because when you say to an actor "Oh I want you to do it a little bit more ...," without saying what you want more of, then the actor doesn't know what to do. But if you can put into words exactly what you want, then the experience of writing is helpful with that.
writing speech program
I'm very open and never write what I'm going to say. Speeches bore everybody else. I have to freestyle. Every time, from one program to another, everything changes and I improvise.
writing comic form
For me, who loves to draw and who loves to write and cannot choose between one or the other, the comic is the best form.
writing email computer
I am very bad at computers. I don't really know how to write email.
writing giving sense-of-humor
Writing is not for me. I completely lose my sense of humor when I write. I become extremely pathetic, very sensational. Images give me possibilities that I don't have with words.
writing reality drawing
Drawing is the first language of the human being before writing. It's a transcription of how the human being sees reality, not reality itself.
writing silence needs
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts. Marianne Wiggins
writing language canvas
I write on a visual canvas, 'seeing' a scene in my thoughts before translating it into language, so I'm a visual junkie.
writing modest undertakings
Writing is an undertaking for the modest. Marianne Moore
writing men sound
A man is a writer if all his words are strung in definite sentence sounds.
writing categories poetry-is
What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
writing amber use
[On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.
writing conscious
Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.
writing desire burning
One writes because one has a burning desire to objectify what it is indispensable to one's happiness to express ...
writing pleasing-others honest
Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.