Quotes about writing
writing sight mind
Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind. Rumer Godden
writing people musical
I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money! Rufus Wainwright
writing creating want
I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.
writing artist hip-hop
A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words. Roy Ayers
writing world fiction
I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing. Roxane Gay
writing years four
I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was still my little attempts at being a storyteller.
writing salvation solace
Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.
writing brave trying
I wrote myself back together. I wrote myself toward a stronger version of myself . . . Through writing and feminism, I also found that if I was a little bit brave, another woman might hear me and see me and recognize that none of us are the nothing the world tries to tell us we are.
writing looks and-love
Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.
writing reform care
[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism. Ronald Reagan
writing heavy psychoanalytic
And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts. Robert Jay Lifton
writing matter depressive
At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle. Robert Hunter
writing ideas stories
I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated. Roddy Doyle
writing thinking pages
When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.
writing comedian littles
If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian. Rodney Dangerfield
writing math college
If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the workplace -- no matter what your diploma says. Rod Blagojevich
writing hair bridges
Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping me by the hair and lifting me up when I'm at the end of my strength. (Significant, said the foreigner.) Odes to the human and the divine. Let my writing be like the verses of by Leopardi that Daniel Biga recited on a Nordic bridge to gird himself with courage. Roberto Bolano
writing thinking hats
I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, "I will tell you a story," and then he passes the hat. Robertson Davies
writing people seductive
That is the operatic problem; the singer must keep up a big head of steam while trying to appear secretive, or seductive, or consumptive. Some ingenious composer should write an opera about a group of people who were condemned by a cruel god to scream all the time; it would be an instantaneous success, and a triumph of versimilitude.
writing tasks difficult
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
writing cutting care
Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron, the sparks and the cursing are palpable, and this appeals to those who rank "sincerity" very high. Nabokov is more like a master swordsmith making a fine blade; nothing is amiss, nothing is too much, there is no fuss, and the finished product must be handled with great care, or it will cut you badly.
writing style doe
One does not consider style, because style is. Robert Stone
writing trying firsts
I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first rewrite, but some chapters I can't get quite right the third time. There are some I go over and over and over again.
writing personality poet
For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them. Robert Southey
writing creative-writing wells
By writing much, one learns to write well.
writing essence capture
All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time. Robert Penn Warren
writing glory nancy
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
writing scratches annoying
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
writing confusion fiction
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
writing secret comedy
The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.
writing scratches plot
It always seems to someone outside the business that it is very difficult to write for a comedy show because it must be done quickly. Actually, it is much easier to write this humor than to do a joke or a show from scratch, because the audience knows the plot. Just mention what is going on and then deliver the punch line.
writing years giving
I remember when I was younger I used to write in my diary: I want my luck to be spread. “Never give me anything too lucky all at once. I'll take a little luck now and then, but spread it for seventy years. “Now that all of this is happening, I'm sure the rest of my life will be ruined. Robert Pattinson
writing two literature
No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature. Robert Louis Stevenson