Quotes about writing
writing waiting speak
Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak. Natalie Goldberg
writing thinking practice
What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind...The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mann ered, congenial.
writing heart secret
The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.
writing shut-up
Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.
writing meditation mind
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
writing thinking tennis
Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.
writing bothering-you hands
If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
writing waiting stories
Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.
writing kind all-kinds
You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write, you physically have to do it.
writing hands joy
There's an old adage in writing: 'Don't tell, but show.' Writing is not psychology. We do not talk 'about' feelings. Instead the writer feels and through her words awakens those feelings in the reader. The writer takes the reader's hand and guides him through the valley of sorrow and joy without ever having to mention those words.
writing secret religion
Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever. Sigmund Freud
writing wealth fame
Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.
writing letters something-new
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new.
writing voice persons
Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person.
writing long pages
A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing -- articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence. Shirley Hazzard
writing thinking pages
I think that one is constantly startled by the things that appear before you on the page when you're writing.
writing needs nervous
It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.
writing here-i-am imperfection
My personal relationship with music is an imperfect harmony because I never studied music, but here I am not just writing for bands but full orchestral sections and doing all this composition, and I never learned the right way of doing things so I have a lot of dissonant sounds and things that are brought to my attention, and generally I leave them that way because I like those imperfections. Serj Tankian
writing goal different
I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that.
writing passion simple
If the rewards to authors go down, simple economics says there will be fewer authors. It's not that people won't burn with the passion to write. The number of people wanting to be novelists is probably not going to decline - but certainly the number of people who are going to be able to make a living as authors is going to dramatically decrease. Scott Turow
writing opportunity water
When people ask me if I have a hobby, a lot of times my answer is that I like to surf in warm water. I like to ski, if I have the opportunity. But really, I like to go to my studio and write music that I want to write, where there's no pressure to come up with a hit single. Scott Weiland
writing thinking musical
When I'm writing a lyric, I totally forget about the music. I'm just looking at the lyric and thinking about it almost as a separate entity. And then I'll go to my keyboard with all the lyrics printed out and try to think of how to make this a complete musical thing. I've got a very basic keyboard with some presets. Scott Walker
writing stuff watches
I write the kind of stuff I'd like to watch, Steven Moffat
writing people envelopes
The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.
writing research minimum
Like most writers, I write about what has happened to me as that involves the minimum amount of research.
writing self people
I know this is going to sound very self-serving, and I apologize for it, but if you can write comedy, you can pretty much write anything, because it's the hardest. It's the most technically demanding, the most precisely evaluated form of writing. People know if it works or not. There's a big button marked 'fail,' and that's when nobody laughs.
writing night entrepreneur
Late at night have you experienced a vision of the person you might become, the work you could accomplish, the realized being you were meant to be? Are you a writer who doesn't write, a painter who doesn't paint, an entrepreneur who never starts a venture? Then you know what Resistance is. Steven Pressfield
writing sitting sitting-down
It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.
writing artist genius
A writer writes with his genius; an artist paints with hers; everyone who creates operates from this sacramental center.
writing thinking editors
Writers think in metaphors. Editors work in metaphors. A great reader reads in metaphors.
writing symphony tomorrow
I am going to write my symphony; I'm just going to start tomorrow.
writing thinking internet-access
Right now with blogs and the flood of internet access, a multitude of aspiring writers think they're ready for prime time. They're not. Be great. Read. Write. Bust your ass. Learn and find your voice. As hard as you think it is, it's a hundred times harder.
writing oxford ancient
The great thing about writing about the ancient Spartans or Athenians is that so much knowledge is no longer extant that no one, except maybe a Cambridge or Oxford don, can call you out and prove you wrong.