Quotes about writing
writing self laziness
Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness. John Lydon
writing imperfection difficult
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with. John Locke
writing ideas people
I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last. Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about. John Legend
writing names together
Paul (McCartney) and I made a deal when we were 15. There was never a legal deal between us, just a deal we made when we decided to write together that we put both our names on it, no matter what. John Lennon
writing kids artist
All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, 'You're no good.' That's all we get told all our lives. 'You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler.' It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, 'Yeah, you're a great artist,' I would have been a more secure person.
writing-songs demon songwriting
Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.
writing thinking years
We've learned over the years that if we wanted we could write anything that just felt good or sounded good and it didn't necessarily have to have any particular meaning to us. As odd as it seemed to us, reviewers would take it upon themselves to interject their own meanings on our lyrics. Sometimes we sit and read other people's interpretations of our lyrics and think, 'Hey, that's pretty good.' If we liked it, we would keep our mouths shut and just accept the credit as if it was what we meant all along.
writing want stills
Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue. Helen Dunmore
writing long-walks pieces
A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.
writing white numbers
It's amazing how much time and money can be saved in the world of dating by close attention to detail. A white sock here, a pair of red braces there, a gray slip-on shoe, a swastika, are as often as not all one needs to tell you there's no point in writing down phone numbers and forking out for expensive lunches because it's never going to be a runner. Helen Fielding
writing thinking confusion
I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.
writing finance bridget-jones
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.
writing people diaries
The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.
writing people hurtful
For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person from writing whatever they want. What's harmful and hurtful is when people speculate. John Krasinski
writing reflection self
Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret. Johann Sebastian Bach
writing men creating
How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating. Johannes Brahms
writing trying purity
If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.
writing age occupation
Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23. Johanna Lindsey
writing doe lines
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
writing men light
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.
writing history sin
Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
writing originality said
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
writing past history
Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
writing busy idleness
Writing is busy idleness.
writing profound perfect
The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.
writing mind obscurity
He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.
writing history sin
Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
writing long-ago people
People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago. Joel Chandler Harris
writing self paper
Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.
writing waiting records
I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great. Joe Walsh
writing thinking cinema
I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema. Joe Wright
writing way orderly
I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not. Joanna Trollope
writing bad-things knows
I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar. Joaquin Andujar