Quotes about writing
writing literature aphorism
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays. Karl Kraus
writing enough historian
What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.
writing thinking waiting
My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.
writing criticism critics
Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.
writing numbers poison
A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.
writing literature journalist
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
writing skills ideas
Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.
writing memoir
I live my memoirs, I don’t have to write them down. Karl Lagerfeld
writing technology thinking
I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons. Kage Baker
writing talent failing
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse. Juvenal
writing ideas long
I used to write poems more when I was younger, but I haven't in a long time. I just write ideas and paragraphs and go from there. Kacey Musgraves
writing years two
It was kind of easier for me to do records that didn't take a year or two years of my life to write and to make. K. D. Lang
writing important matter
It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it. Oswald Spengler
writing history pieces
History is simply a piece of paper covered with print: the main thing is to make history, not to write it. Otto von Bismarck
writing passion college
I always thought I was going to be on the other side of the camera. That's where I found myself. I found out that I could write when I was 17, right before you go to college, so it was a passion of mine. O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
writing kids glasses
I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass. Oscar Nunez
writing surfing mail
I still use quill and parchment. I do e-mails, and I write, but I don't go around surfing too much.
writing thinking despair
When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it. Oscar Wilde
writing thinking identity
For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity. Kathryn Harrison
writing expression machines
Writing must be a machine for breaking down, that is, allowing the now uncontrolled and uncontrollable reconstitutions of thoughts and expressions. All other kinds of writing simply express. Kathy Acker
writing connections language
A language is the appearances of connections therefore language as in writing doesn't express anything: it creates.
writing thinking magic
First of all, writing at best - certainly fiction writing - more and more I think is magic.
writing after-death happens
I'm what happens after death, which is writing.
writing thinking jazz
Well, I think writing is basically about time and rhythm. Like with jazz. You have your basic melody and then you just riff off of it. And the riffs are about timing.
writing bother ifs
Write about what disturbs you, particularly if it bothers no one else. Kathryn Stockett
writing airports two
If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’ except for two reasons: Sometimes it takes too long to write that and sometimes I spell the word ‘genius’ wrong. The irony. Kanye West
writing punishment paper
In history, she wasn't there while we reenacted the Lincoln-Douglas Debate, and Mr. Lee tried to make me argue the Pro-Slavery side, most likely as punishment for some future liberally minded paper I was bound to write. Kami Garcia
writing stories
The story you are afraid to write is usually the one you are meant to tell.
writing self people
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.
writing conceited busy
I feel like I'm too busy writing history to read it.
writing tv-shows pilots
Writing pilots is such a specific thing. It's not even really writing TV shows. A pilot is its own beast. June Diane Raphael
writing swans research
While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister. Jung Chang
writing important language
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet June Jordan