Quotes about writing
writing thinking class
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other. Thom Gunn
writing boys tunes
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. Thomas Beecham
writing mind trying
And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind. Thomas Keneally
writing recipes stories
I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories. Thomas Keller
writing recipes problem
One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.
writing thinking order
We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always fail, because we suddenly find it impossible to order our thoughts, because the process of thinking requires us to consider every thought there is, every possible thought. Fundamentally we have always failed, like all the others, whoever they were, even the greatest minds. At some point, they suddenly failed and their system collapsed, as is proved by their writings, which we admire because they venture farthest into failure. To think is to fail, I thought. Thomas Bernhard
writing
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequethed their writings to me--I have no others.
writing too-late lost
Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.
writing reputation discrepancies
Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
writing singers
I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing. Rebecca Ferguson
writing
I like to write poetry.
writing people romance
That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens. Ville Valo
writing journey track
Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.
writing feelings trying
My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film. Vin Diesel
writing enough consistently
I'm not disciplined enough to be a writer consistently. I write when I have to.
writing world rooms
When I'm writing, I'm locking myself in a room. I'm the worst critic in the world. I write something and then I beat myself up. I'm like "Vin, you're retarded, that makes no sense."
writing caps should
Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap. Vijay Singh
writing scary pages
I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing. Victoria Wood
writing garden facts
It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else. Viggo Mortensen
writing want appeals
I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone. Victoria Justice
writing behind-the-scenes someday
I love making movies and hope to write my own screenplay someday and do some producing and be behind-the-scenes as well.
writing poverty deadline
The best writing deadlines are poverty and death. Victor LaValle
writing trying narrative
In history, one gathers clues like a detective, tries to present an honest account of what most likely happened, and writes a narrative according to what we know and, where we aren't absolutely sure, what might be most likely to have happened, within the generally accepted rules of evidence and sources. Victor Davis Hanson
writing play tyrants
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant. Victor Hugo
writing fighting hands
I write with one hand, but I fight with both.
writing horror-stories sometimes
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories. Vernor Vinge
writing science ideas
When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
writing romantic-love thinking
This concept could easily have gone awry. Stories about love tend to go that way sometimes. They wander into the realm of cheese and never return, which I think is a shame, because there is a way to write about romantic love without breaking out the Velveeta. Veronica Roth
writing voice appreciate
I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
writing play world
I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page.
writing political historical
Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing. Richard Bach
writing character typewriters
When I'm writing it's as if I'm the observer. It's as if that computer screen there -it used to be the typewriter - just kind of dissolves and there's this whirling tunnel of mist and there's a kind of proscenium arch, and then there are my characters, and they say what they say, and I laugh sometimes in surprise at what they say.
writing dark ideas
I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for a pencil.