Quotes about writing
writing people over-it
Everybody won’t like everything you write. Some people won’t like anything you write. Get over it. Susan Elizabeth Phillips
writing stories males
When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.
writing trying fiction
I stopped writing short fiction early on - I was never really good at it, and I never liked the results. So I stopped trying to fit the material I was working with into these tidy little short fiction packages. Susan Choi
writing people needs
There are enough people in the world who are going to write you off. You don't need to do that to yourself. Susan Boyle
writing feelings worst
Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst Susan Cheever
writing mean night
you once said to would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen in that case I could not write at all. For writing means revealing one self to excess; that utmost of self-revelation and surrender, in which a human being, when involved with others, would feel he was losing himself, and from which, therefore, he will always shrink as long as he is in his right mind...That is why one can never be alone enough when one writes, why there can never be enough silence around one when one writes, why even night is not night enough. Susan Cain
writing creativity ideas
...remember the dangers of the New Groupthink. If it's creativity you're after, ask your employees to solve problems alone before sharing their ideas. If you want the wisdom of the crowd, gather it electronically, or in writing, and make sure people can't see each other's ideas until everyone has had a chance to contribute.
writing intention
Writing must always have intention because words have power. Suheir Hammad
writing blood years
Perhaps we have failed as human beings. Perhaps we have embarrassed ourselves to the natural world. We have been rigorous and willful in all the wrong ways. But it doesn't have to be this way. Maybe you don't want to deal with (marching), the permanent marker and poster board. But try something else. Carry someone's groceries. Chat with the custodian in your office building. Donate blood. Live in Rwanda for a year. Write letters to the Department of Buildings. Learn to knit. It is only going to get better from here on out. Sufjan Stevens
writing prose-poetry different
Poetry is its own medium; it's very different than writing prose. Poetry can talk in an imagistic sense, it has particular ways of catching an environment. Story Musgrave
writing reality skeletons
The older I grow the more sharply I mistrust words. So few of them have any meaning left. It is impossible to write one sentence in which every word has the bareness and hardness of bones, the reality of the skeleton. Storm Jameson
writing ambition chimneys
Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.
writing scary over-it
If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening. Sting
writing play band
I write the music, produce it and the band plays within the parameters that I set.
writing two stopping
The two hardest things about writing are starting and not stopping. Stewart O'Nan
writing people able
I've always asked to be able to speak and write about injustice and to do it in a way that would encourage people to make things better for everyone. Stevie Wonder
writing alive lasting
I am interested in my music lasting only while I'm alive. I'm not writing for the future. Sonny Rollins
writing frustration drug
Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once you've had on drink, you just want another drink. Steve Jordan
writing wish microsoft
I wish developing great products was as easy as writing a check. If that was the case, Microsoft would have great products. Steve Jobs
writing people pages
The manual for WordStar, the most popular word-processing program, is 400 pages thick. To write a novel, you have to read a novel - one that reads like a mystery to most people. They're not going to learn slash q-z any more than they're going to learn Morse code. That is what Macintosh is all about.
writing mail lists
E-mail also changed things in that you don't have to write a full document to discuss something. You can just send an e-mail to a list. Steve Crocker
writing want hardest
Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it. Steve Earle
writing stories four
I'm used to writing stories with a beginning a middle and an end in four minutes.
writing thinking stupidest
The stupidest thing that a writer can do is write a memoir I think, unless it's right before you die -- maybe.
writing years people
Gregory Corso used to get really pissed when people called Bob Dylan a 'poet.' After writing poetry for a few years, I can understand that.
writing thinking pedestal
I am not a politician going around bragging about family values or putting myself on some ridiculous virtuous pedestal. I write comedy. And I am an actor. I am not going to solve the nation's problems. I don't actually spend my life in the way the tabloids like to think I do. I actually spend 95 percent of it writing comedy. Sober. Well, nearly sober anyway. Steve Coogan
writing people tools
I use improvisation as a writing tool to help produce material that goes into a script, but a well-crafted script shouldn't sound scripted, and oftentimes people confuse something that looks like improvisation for what is actually a very well-written script that is well-acted.
writing odds two
The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.
writing actors chance
I don't aspire to direct like many actors. I would aspire most likely to do some writing, but I haven't had a chance to do that. Stephen Root
writing thinking appreciate
An English poet writes, I think, just for people who are interested in poetry. An American poet writes, and feels that everyone ought to appreciate this. Then he has a deep sense of grievance . . . Stephen Spender
writing voice luxury
What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent.
writing sometimes empty
Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words.
writing done computer
I love computers. I love writing on them. I love gadgetry. The thing is: I am a slow reader. So, if I am going to get my work done, I read, like, a newspaper and that's it. If I got into websites and the internet, I wouldn't get any work done. Stephen Sondheim