Quotes about writing
writing circles important
The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it up than anyone else. John Cleese
writing actors performers
I've always called myself a writer/performer, not an actor because I basically write what I perform.
writing laughing people
Tension is wonderful for making people laugh.
writing reality people
Naturally, people's image is of a performer, but the reality of it is the writing for me has always been the most important thing and the most rewarding thing.
writing creativity way
Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.
writing thinking years
I don't think about the reader in any conscious way that impacts the writing, as far as, Hey, most readers would like this! But at the same time, if it were presented to me: "John, you're going to write a novel. It's going to take you a few years. When you're done with it, there's a law that no one's allowed to read it." I don't think I would write it. I want someone to read it!
writing people happens
I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at other things.
writing years class
The first time I took a fiction writing class was sophomore year. And I just found myself taking that extremely seriously, in a way that I didn't take anything else seriously. So I guess that was the start of it.
writing limits
One extends one's limits only by exceeding them. M. Scott Peck
writing opportunity world
I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak. Lurlene McDaniel
writing people trying
I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.' Lupe Fiasco
writing long rejection
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. Louise Brown
writing battle fiction
Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story. John Cheever
writing stories kind
Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.
writing blake make-sense
I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey
writing kissing done
Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.
writing nuclear roles
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
writing needs make-sense
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
writing ego promise
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
writing kissing reader
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
writing years stressed
As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers. John Bolton
writing appreciate television
You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that there is a limit to what that accomplishes.
writing ideas want
Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer. John Amos
writing asking serious
To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing. Robertson Davies
writing artist being-an-artist
The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love. Taylor Swift
writing together happened
Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.
writing water oath
I write a woman's oaths in water. Sophocles
writing income firsts
I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed. Steve Toltz
writing world fantasy
The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down. Stephen Malkmus
writing stuff desperate
We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.
writing firsts wells
To write well it is first necessary to have something to say. Stephen Leacock
writing paper down-and
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.
writing ideas simplicity
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.