Quotes about writing
writing thinking cosmos
I think I am doing my works to link myself, my family, with society — with the cosmos. To link me with my family to the cosmos, that is easy, because all literature has some mystic tendency. So when we write about our family, we can link ourselves to the cosmos. Kenzaburo Oe
writing thinking perfect
Right now I think I'm the smartest I've ever been. I'm doing everything great now and everything perfect. Like with this taxes stuff. I'm getting better at that. I'm making sure everything is a write-off. Every single thing. Kendra Wilkinson
writing pyramids slave-ships
I be off the slave ships, building pyramids, writing my own hieroglyphs Kendrick Lamar
writing rights
My rights, my wrongs, I write ‘til I’m right with God.
writing pyramids write-your-own
Build your own pyramids, write your own hieroglyphs.
writing hands people
If someone writes a great story, people praise the author, not the pen. People don't say, 'Oh what an incredible pen...where can I get a pen like this so I can write great stories?' Well, I am just a pen in the hands of the Lord. He is the author. All praise should go to him. Keith Green
writing thinking appreciate
I think people appreciate a songwriter who shows different sides. The whole angst thing is cool, but if that's all you've got, it's just boring. Everything I write, whether it's happy or sad, has a sense of humor to it. Katy Perry
writing people paint
... maybe that's all anyone who writes or paints or sculpts is doing anyway -- excusing themselves for refusing to live like other people or be like them. Kathleen Winsor
writing passion world
What I used to do with a passion, foolishly and vainly imagining I would change the world for the better, I no longer tolerate in myself or anyone else. But draw, always draw - and WRITE. Ralph Steadman
writing
I blundered into writing. Ralph Ellison
writing acceptance agony
I suspect that all the agony that goes into writing is borne precisely because the writer longs for acceptance-but it must be acceptance on his own terms.
writing past shadow
The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
writing people serial-killer
I got to read some writings by serial killers, and they got inside my head. They were quite disturbing. I read disturbing stuff about that very detached way of manipulating people to do things. Ralph Fiennes
writing feelings feeling-great
I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great. Raine Maida
writing done saws
Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
writing character creating
You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio choices and producer choices, but when you're writing it, you're creating your own little world in your head, peopled with your little characters. No one is in there monkeying with it, at least not at first - though they will. With this and the other projects I'm working on, it'll have to be given away, and it'll have to be someone else's property. Rainn Wilson
writing hands too-much
But the explanations fell apart in her hands. Everything true was too hard to write--he was too much to lose. Everything she felt for him was too hot to touch. Rainbow Rowell
writing anxiety stories
I tend to write about my anxieties - it's what I'm afraid will happen. And I write a story working it out.
writing mind finals
Well, I'm writing everything that isn't my final project, so that when I actually sit down to write it, that's all that will be left in my mind.
writing attachment goal
With Attachments, my goal was to write a really good romantic comedy. I wanted the reader to be smiling throughout.
writing eye gay
Everybody drinks," she said calmly. The Only Rational One. "Your sister doesn't." When rolled her eyes. "Forgive me, but I'm not going to spend my college years sitting soberly in my dorm room, writing about gay magicians." "Objection," Cath said, reaching for a burrito.
writing trying way
I take something that happened to me in 1983, and I make it happen to somebody else in 1943. I pick my life apart that way, try to understand it better by writing straight through it.
writing creativity hands
I am severely dyslexic, so I'm not the person who can do a lot of typing, writing and mathematics. I don't excel in anything except in things that had to do with creativity and things with my hands. I like to build things and take things apart. Raha Moharrak
writing curiosity fit
He that writes to himself writes to an eternal public. That statement only is fit to be made public, which you have come at in attempting to satisfy your own curiosity. Ralph Waldo Emerson
writing skills one-day
We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost.
writing fighting hot
Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.
writing looks succeed
Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.
writing men thinking
For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.
writing thinking may
Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What am I to the universe, or, the unvierse, what is it to me? Who hath forged the chains of wrong and right, of Opinion and Custom? And must I wear them?
writing men literature
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
writing brain tunes
After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.
writing looks poetry-is
Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.
writing causes sentences
A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.