Quotes about writing
writing letters classic
Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then? Prince Philip
writing college stories
It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell. Polly Adler
writing civilization glory
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read. Pliny the Elder
writing conscious
The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing. Pico Iyer
writing alive way
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.
writing important alive
As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.
writing anomalies letters
Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.
writing parent anomalies
Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent ... and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger
writing thinking want
I don't think the press are vindictive. They can write what they want Mike Gatting
writing musical atmosphere
I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last. Midge Ure
writing thinking care
Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength. Mickey Kaus
writing thinking development
One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.
writing guitar years
I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way. Mick Ralphs
writing stuff way
Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When I'm doing other things, writing stuff will be swirling around in my head, and sometimes I'll see a new way into the material. Nathaniel Philbrick
writing color people
It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind. Naveen Andrews
writing ideas giving-money
Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and, unfortunately, extremely pervasive. Naveen Jain
writing warrior whatever-it-takes
Ritsu: Please, Onii-san, please write with takoyaki power! Mitsuru: Yes, sensei! With ikyayaki or takoyaki or whatever it takes! Write quickly, without hesitation! Ah... Um... W-what is takoyaki power? Ritsu: Well, that is--! When Shigure-niisan eats takoyaki, he transforms into a great warrior... Shigure: No I don't. Natsuki Takaya
writing ivy romance
Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow. Nathaniel Hawthorne
writing style disappear
The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.
writing written seems
I can write no more. All that I have written seems like straw. Thomas Aquinas
writing past people
One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church ... We must hold this for certain, namely: that the faith of the people at the present day is one with the faith of the people in past centuries. Were this not true, then we would be in a different church than they were in and, literally, the Church would not be One.
writing needs fans
When even your fans are writing to tell you to get a life, you know you need to listen. Thom Yorke
writing
I don't write lyrics, the lyrics write Thom Yorke
writing self nuts
I have this thing about my own voice on record. No matter what I sing, it sounds really serious, and I sound self loathing or whatever, which was just driving me nuts because that's not what I was writing.
writing albums firsts
The second album is the hardest to write. Its nothing like the first album. Theophilus London
writing cutting editing
The discipline of writing a memoir comes in the editing. This is where I cut, slash, and burn - where my creative mind is transformed into a ruthless one. No word escapes my scrutiny. It is here where I see what boundaries need to be set. Terry Tempest Williams
writing discovery tasks
I write from the place of inquiry. The first draft is a discovery period to see what I know and what I don't know. My task is simply to follow the words. There are surprises along the way. I just have to get it down. Call it the sculptor's clay.
writing heart feet
When I write, I put one foot in front of the other. It's an act of faith. I just follow my heart.
writing black-and-white fabric
I write to make peace with the things I cannot control. I write to create fabric in the world that often appears black and white. I write to meet my ghosts. I write to begin a dialogue. I write to imagine things differently and in imagining things differently perhaps the world will change.
writing humanity protection
We write out of our humanity by writing through our direct experience. That which is most personal is most general, which becomes both our insight and protection as a writers. This is our authority as women, as human beings.
writing bird soul
When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do, of the liberation and pragmatism of belief.
writing would-be pages
I don't set boundaries for myself when I am writing; if I did, I would be paralyzed from the start, unable to write a word on the page.
writing witness
I write as a witness to what I have seen.