Quotes about writing
writing giving interesting
Verse comedy is interesting to me because of the challenge of writing in rhymed couplets, which is not a form that's usually amenable to English, yet to me it gives great possibility for comedy. David Ives
writing theatre deals
Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.
writing play symphony
Writing a play, you start with less, so more is demanded of you. It's as if you have to not only write a symphony, but invent the instruments as well.
writing thinking talking
Get people talking. Learn to ask questions that will elicit answers about what is most interesting or vivid in their lives. Nothing so animates writing as someone telling what he thinks or what he does - in his own words. His own words will always be better than your words, even if you are the most elegant stylist in the land. William Zinsser
writing stories wells
A story is not only meaning, it's music as well. Aharon Appelfeld
writing metaphor catastrophe
I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
writing israel people
The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
writing thinking six
The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops.
writing two midnight
Writing is my love. If you love something, you find a lot of time. I write for two hours a day, usually starting at midnight; at times, I start at 11. Abdul Kalam
writing feelings happens
I write about my feelings, things that happen in my life and experiences. Aaron Carter
writing world great-inventions
Writing is the great invention of the world. Abraham Lincoln
writing names knowing
O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame. William Shakespeare
writing school home
Writing has always felt like a compulsion. Even at high school there'd be times when people would ask me if I wanted to go and hang out and I'd sit home and write instead. Amanda Hocking
writing men years
When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence. Samuel Butler
writing drained
The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.
writing today classic
Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it. Liam Gallagher
writing secret good-writing
Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. Mark Haddon
writing want trouble
I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any. Dick Cheney
writing expectations romance
Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.
writing trying way
I realized that if you're trying to reach an audience, being as subjective as possible and really trying to write from something genuine is the way to go. Really it's mostly from my own process, my own experience. Christopher Nolan
writing men hands
A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a symphony. Mozart suggested that a symphony was rather an ambitious project for a beginner: perhaps the young man might better try his hand at something simpler first. "But you were writing symphonies when you were my age." the student protested. "Yes, but I didn't have to ask how." James Keller
writing self two
So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing ... Brenda Ueland
writing generosity performances
...writing is not a performance but a generosity.
writing night house
Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night.
writing blood years
Everything brought forward in favor of Socialism during the last hundred years, in thousands of writings and speeches, all the blood which has been spilt by the supporters of Socialism, cannot make socialism workable. Ludwig von Mises
writing issues liberty
This dilettantish inability to comprehend the essential issues of the conduct of production affairs is not only manifested in the writings of Marx and Engels. It permeates no less the contributions of contemporary pseudo-economics.
writing men good-man
I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf. Alexander Woollcott
writing names draws
I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it! Alexander Wang
writing pleasure publish
Write for pleasure and publish for money. Alexander Pushkin
writing stuff kind
I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff. Abigail Breslin
writing makeup hair
I want to do wardrobe. I want to do hair. I want to do makeup. I want to do writing. I want to do directing. I want to do all of it. I like it. And I want to do producing.
writing rose fees
With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get. Abel Ferrara
writing reality mirrors
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics, and other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties. Aberjhani