Quotes about writing
writing ideas two
The idea of political content is irrelevant. Content is irrelevant. I always tell my students, "Never forget you're writing words! You know, word one, word two, word three, word four. The words have to be organized. Nothing else does." Dave Hickey
writing thinking bars
If you want to be a chef or a scientist, you've got to know what the current thinking is, so if you want to write comics or draw comics find out what the very best ones are and look at them all and then you'll know where the bars are because the bars are often very high, if you are going to make a splash and make yourself known, you need to get to that level. Dave McKean
writing speech use
For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it. Dario Fo
writing breathing rambling
It is from him, from Beolco Ruzzante, that I've learned to free myself from conventional literary writing and to express myself with words that you can chew, with unusual sounds, with various techniques of rhythm and breathing, even with the rambling nonsense-speech of the 'grammelot.'
writing thinking guitar
I guess, and it may be a flaw, that I think about rhythm more [than anything else]. I'm always wanting to find something unusual. I've started to try and write more traditionally, but for whatever reason, I tend toward trying to find something that sounds more like a pattern to me. Dave Matthews
writing thinking race
A lot of the time, I write a lot of angry stuff, but then I don't want to be a finger-pointer - I'd rather be a cheerleader than a judge. I don't want to preach as if I'm in some position of righteousness, but I do want to speak my mind and scream at the clouds and shout out of the pit of hopelessness that I sometimes think the human race is in.
writing thinking fearless
I've never been much of a craftsman, in an educated way. But I think just the experience of writing makes the avenues I follow a little more efficient in some ways. At the same time, when you're young, you're a little more fearless, and there's less of an internal critic.
writing stories remember
Every story we remember is a novel. Novels make things more universal. Dave Eggers
writing talking people
If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.
writing college class
Well, my background is journalism. I don't have any creative-writing experience except for one class I took as a sophomore in college.
writing mind important
Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that.
writing soul reviews
If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul. David Lehman
writing dark people
I'm just writing about people. People are dark and complicated. I'm trying to tell the truth; that's all that I do. David Lindsay-Abaire
writing passion play
I've been pretty well treated by the critics, but the critics who didn't like my comedies hated them with an unbridled passion, and then I would see these same people writing very respectfully about ordinary naturalistic plays.
writing thinking who-i-am
I didn't go into 'Rabbit Hole' wanting to write about class. I think because of who I am it somehow found its way into it.
writing rabbits looks
I'm going to do whatever interests me. Look, writing 'Rabbit Hole' came out of an interest in diversifying my portfolio, frankly.
writing play nazi
Only assholes write plays about Nazis.
writing return exhausted
Having reached a point in which I was so bitter and exhausted from being a quote unquote public figure, I wanted to return to a more childlike relationship to writing. David Leavitt
writing fiction common
It is so common to write autobiographical fiction in which your own experience is thinly disguised.
writing love-is trying
Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough. David Levithan
writing tomorrow
When I shall again write to you, or where I shall be tomorrow, I cannot tell. Dolley Madison
writing successful rambo
I like Stallone, because he writes. He sits down with a blank page and comes up with another Rambo movie. That isn't very easy for anybody. He's made it successful on top of that. Dolph Lundgren
writing keys pages
The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love. Dodie Smith
writing moonlight exciting
It is rather exciting to write by moonlight.
writing kitchen sitting
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink.
writing ifs
Perhaps if I make myself write I shall find out what is wrong with me.
writing college want
I only want to write. And there's no college for that except life.
writing cooking breakfast
Writing's just as natural to me as getting up and cooking breakfast. Dolly Parton
writing home nashville
My biggest extravagances are also investments. I have several houses in California, a house in Nashville, an office complex, and I bought the old home place in Tennessee. They are different places for me to write, but I can turn right around and sell them.
writing thinking musical
I don't think I'm a great actress. I think I can act or I can react. Coming from a musical background and being a dramatic singer and writer, when I write stuff I really feel it. So I sing it like it comes from here. That's how I do the acting.
writing gone
I write for myself things that I've gone through.
writing different my-favorite
The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage.
writing self tasks
Writing a novel proved to be the hardest, most self-analyzing task I had ever attempted, far worse than an autobiography: and its rewards were greater than I expected. Dick Francis