Quotes about writing
writing sky awful
I saw the lightnings gleaming rod. Reach forth and write upon the sky The awful autograph of God. Joaquin Miller
writing listening sitting
I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing. Joaquin Phoenix
writing littles madness
The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign. Joanne Harris
writing editing relax
I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.
writing laptops needs
I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.
writing broken-inside needs
You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life.
writing care want
If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.
writing influence crime
My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with. Jo Nesbo
writing teens novel
Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.
writing evil ambitious
I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.
writing ideas plot
Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.
writing trying stories
All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led.
writing other-cultures opposites
Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.
writing thinking fiction
They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.
writing hotel-lobby airports
For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lobbies. I'm really happy when I'm waiting for a plane and the message comes that it's three hours late. Great, I'll get to write!
writing thinking difficult
I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately. Jo Brand
writing perfect president
Being president is as difficult as writing the perfect poem. And being president is as effortless as writing the perfect poem. Always a Reckoning, my first collection of poetry, was described by Booklist as 'keenly evocative.' Jimmy Carter
writing mind taught
When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.
writing order play
What is the purpose of writing music? One is, of course, not dealing with purposes but dealing with sounds. Or the answer must take the form of a paradox: a purposeful purposeless or a purposeless play. This play, however, is an affirmation of life--not an attempt to bring order out of chaos nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply a way of waking up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and one’s desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord. John Cage
writing order favourite
My favourite music is the music I haven't yet heard. I don't hear the music I write: I write in order to hear the music I haven't yet heard.
writing heaven promise
When I went to the analyst for a kind of preliminary meeting, he said, 'I'll be able to fix you so that you'll write much more music than you do now.' I said, 'Good heavens! I already write too much, it seems to me.' That promise of his put me off.
writing should-have dinner-guests
Paper should be edible, nutritious. Inks used for printing or writing should have delicious flavors. Magazines or newspapers read at breakfast should be eaten for lunch. Instead of throwing one's mail in the waste-basket, it should be saved for the dinner guests.
writing soul suffering
O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter. Francois Fenelon
writing editors differences
I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any difference whether it was fiction or nonfiction or short stories or whatever. I just - that's what I was destined to do. Frank Deford
writing giving people
I don't understand blogs. People used to write to make money, no? You didn't give it away. I have nothing against blogs. I don't have a problem with them. But it's like, 'What are you doing? Why aren't you working?
writing novelists
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist. Francois Truffaut
writing creative suits
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. When I cease to be carried along, when I no longer feel as though I were taking down dictation, I stop. Francois Mauriac
writing police houston
Former police chief of Houston once said of me: “Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it ‘U.R. Hooked’ and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver’s license for identification. Frank Abagnale
writing easy
It is easy to write unthinking music.
writing wish sometimes
Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write. George Crabbe
writing creative acting
I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do. George Clooney
writing thinking want
I would not want to write something about something I do not think about Geezer Butler
writing people
I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people. Geddy Lee