Quotes about writing
writing people know-me
It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me. Mariah Carey
writing said ifs
I don't go out much. I'm also not promiscuous. If I went out with everyone the press said I did, I'd never have time to write or sing.
writing way world
Writing has always been the primary way I make sense of the world. Meghan O'Rourke
writing sitcom
Writing is the greatest thing about really good sitcoms. Megyn Price
writing want direct
I want to write, act, and direct!
writing giving long
I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching. Max Lucado
writing people week
We get a lot of unsolicited manuscripts here. Im not even a publisher, but we get several a week. I dont read them, but I do glance through some of them, and some people dont need to be writing, they have something else.
writing exercise interesting
All I did was collect a few of the questions I've been asked through the years, write up a brief response and put them in this publication. As a pastor, you get asked questions and receive emails. Many of them I had answered, but just in conversation. So we kind of re-crafted the question and answered it. It turned out to be an interesting exercise. I hope it's encouraging for people.
writing kind backwards
I never told anybody I wanted to write, I kind of fell into it backwards.
writing parent lord
I was never really lead by [my parents] and didnt sense any leading from the Lord to go into writing.
writing people remember
I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it.
writing godly people
My parents, they were good, godly people, but they never said, You need to write.
writing giving people
Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because they want to write.
writing people singing
If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing, if not ... try singing.
writing guy other-guys
I co-pastor now, so I preach six months, then another guy preaches six months. So that's really why I'm preparing for January, because I'll finish in June; then I'll be writing and doing other projects for the rest of the year.
writing yesterday worry
Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone.
writing matter way
I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live. Mavis Gallant
writing garden house
A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.
writing affair love-affair
Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.
writing way punctuation
I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar. Maurice Saatchi
writing worry noses
I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of [writing] something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter. Maurice Sendak
writing artist imagination
As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.
writing thinking long
I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I long for open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there. May Sarton
writing letters guilty
And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the times when an enormous amount of living is going on, one can't.
writing making-love alive
I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.
writing able world
I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
writing thinking purpose
I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
writing written universal
I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
writing rainy-day support
I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament I have never learned to use as it could be used, thrown off by a word, a glance, a rainy day, or one drink too many. My need to be alone is balanced against my fear of what will happen when suddenly I enter the huge empty silence if I cannot find support there. I go up to Heaven and down to Hell in an hour, and keep alive only by imposing upon myself inexorable routines. I write too many letters and too few poems.
writing fifteen enough
Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
writing hard-times different
Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my process on different things, but I will say this: The more you write, the better you get at it. That's one of the few things that's markedly true. Max Landis
writing artist defining
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. Max Eastman
writing phones needs
I literally have over a thousand emails in my inbox that need to be returned. I'm sure all of my friends and certain family members are like, 'Oh, look who got nominated for an Emmy and doesn't want to write me an email back!' I need a good few hours to just sit and get on the phone. Max Greenfield