Quotes about writing
writing practice hard
It's hard for me to just practice without writing something. Geddy Lee
writing thinking different
I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music that we can continue to write, enjoy and keep me involved with music other then what I do with RUSH.
writing first-love firsts
I love to write. It's my first love.
writing elderly years
Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.
writing careers isolated-places
I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time. Lois McMaster Bujold
writing best-things including
One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.
writing indifference writing-poems
When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature. Lisel Mueller
writing language wells
Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.
writing facts autobiography
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.
writing college thinking
When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.
writing italian play
If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play. Lloyd Kaufman
writing thinking bullets
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath. Lynn Abbey
writing ideas always-trying
If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.
writing stories novel
For me, writing a short story is much, much harder than writing a novel.
writing discouraging blinded
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
writing history people
The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about in a way that they can understand. John Keegan
writing people wonder
How do you prevent people from doing inappropriate things? We can write laws. But at the end of the day, I actually wonder what the board was doing. John Kasich
writing hands talking
Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry. John Keats
writing animal thinking
I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing at random straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness without knowing the bearing of any one assertion, of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin?
writing comfort clean
All clean and comfortable I sit down to write.
writing poetry soul
Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.
writing thinking air
No sooner had I stepp'd into these pleasures Than I began to think of rhymes and measures: The air that floated by me seem'd to say 'Write! thou wilt never have a better day.
writing kissing letters
Ask yourself my love whether you are not very cruel to have so entrammelled me, so destroyed my freedom. Will you confess this in the Letter you must write immediately, and do all you can to console me in it — make it rich as a draught of poppies to intoxicate me —write the softest words and kiss them that I may at least touch my lips where yours have been. For myself I know not how to express my devotion to so fair a form: I want a brighter word than bright, a fairer word than fair.
writing next world
I am convinced more and more day by day that fine writing is next to fine doing, the top thing in the world.
writing long shells
Writing is a long and lonesome business; back of the problems in thought and composition hover always the awful questions: Is this the page that shows the empty shell? Is it here and now that they find me out? John Kenneth Galbraith
writing hands mind
Good writing, and this is especially important in a subject such as economics, must also involve the reader in the matter at hand. It is not enough to explain. The images that are in the mind of the writer must be made to reappear in the mind of the reader, and it is the absence of this ability that causes much economic writing to be condemned, quite properly, as abstract.
writing ego fantastic
Authorship of any sort is a fantastic indulgence of the ego.
writing intelligent two
I write with two things in mind. I want to be right with my fellow economists. After all, I've made my life as a professional economist, so I'm careful that my economics is as it should be. But I have long felt that there's no economic proposition that can't be stated in clear, accessible language. So I try to be right with my fellow economists, but I try to have an audience of any interested, intelligent person.
writing four revision
There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four revisions are needed.
writing people realization
One of my greatest pleasures in my writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then comes the realization that such people rarely read.
writing years iowa
I spent several years acquiring the obsessive, day-to-day discipline that's needed if you want to write professionally, then several more, highly valuable years studying fiction writing at the University of Iowa. John Dalton
writing majority brian
Freddie and Brian tend to write the majority of the material. John Deacon
writing reality color
I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write. John D. MacDonald