Quotes about writing
writing firsts lines
If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line. Max Frisch
writing culture virtue
Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself. Maureen Corrigan
writing limits possibility
The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes. Maurice Blanchot
writing order echoes
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
writing men solitude
A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.
writing adrenaline
It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write. Maureen Dowd
writing
Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.
writing another-woman ifs
As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.
writing thinking black
When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.
writing people way
When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has given me a way of continuing to post those notes, only a lot of other people see them, too. Maureen Johnson
writing careers two
Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.
writing thinking acting
And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way. Matthew Vaughn
writing bored people
Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time. Matthew Tobin Anderson
writing thinking circles
I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one detail in the scene I'm about to write that I'm really excited about writing. Until I can come up with that one detail, I pace.
writing
That was one of the key things - when you asked the story about the writing of the story - one of the things we wanted to make sure was that it grew out of. Matt Reeves
writing artist
When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist. Matt LeBlanc
writing knack way
Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.
writing opportunity thinking
Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, were thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think theres a big opportunity to take the community of creators that loves WordPress and deliver an audience to the amazing things theyre making. Matt Mullenweg
writing people facts
I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write. Maya Rudolph
writing goal choices
I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.
writing giving trying
I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form. Maya Lin
writing ifs
And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about. Maynard James Keenan
writing men wish
I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak, read, write, and understand any language ever written or spoken, just any language throughout the history of man. That would be one of my wishes from the genie, so I would have to put "multilingual" on the resume, should I ever find the genie.
writing lord angelou
I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.' Maya Angelou
writing apology thinking
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.
writing black-and-white thinking
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.
writing serious problem
One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a time and saying if it comes, good; if it doesn't come, good, I'll just sit here.
writing ignorance people
If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.
writing names want
I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name.
writing get-over
You never get over the fear of writing.
writing people black
I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.
writing who-i-am darkness
When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.
writing hair mind
When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.