Quotes about writing
writing people feelings
It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care. Alice Walker
writing should-have want
I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read.
writing kind bones
For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life. The writing has been really a byproduct of that.
writing sides jazz
There's an ecstatic side to writing. It's like jazz. It just has a life.
writing interesting violence
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence - as it saves most writers who live in 'interesting' oppressive times and are not afflicted by personal immunity.
writing thinking muse
I don't know if you actually get something out of writing poetry. I think poetry is an autonomous muse that decides to come and sit on your couch.
writing hatred littles
I've found, in my own writing, that a little hatred, keenly directed, is a useful thing.
writing violence sin
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.
writing people understanding
Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves.
writing cutting medicine
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina. Abraham Verghese
writing thinking apples
I think it's important to also realize that this isn't a case of Apple being asked to simply flip a switch or, you know, plug in a wire from one place to another. They're being asked to write new software that doesn't exist. They purposefully did not create this kind of backdoor... Angus King
writing vision impulse
The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life. Angus Wilson
writing novelists harsh
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.
writing parent dying
It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come. Anita Baker
writing drawing stories
I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried. Ani Difranco
writing keys people
People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well. Andy Hertzfeld
writing want hats
But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems. Andrew Motion
writing way poet
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
writing done way
I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.
writing two tea
I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.
writing trying moments
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.
writing who-i-am play
I consider myself a person like everyone else, and I take my time writing my records because I feel like it captures more of who I am. You have a much greater chance of hitting on themes and points...that could play into someone else's life in a larger way. Andrew McMahon
writing marketing culture
Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture. Andrew Mason
writing agony creating
I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done. Amy Lowell
writing poetry arriving
I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem.
writing music-is purifying
Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying! Amy Lee
writing tables way
I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.
writing dark epic
My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!
writing heart singing
I'm singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.
writing tired mirrors
I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. So let's peek behind the curtain and hail the others like us. The open-faced sandwiches who take risks and live big and smile with all of their teeth. These are the people I want to be around. This is the honest way I want to live and love and write. Amy Poehler
writing brain tragedy
A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.
writing boring truth-is
The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.
writing artist oklahoma
I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So I was an economics major at Oklahoma State, and then received an M.S. from Cornell in Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. I knew if I wanted to write I would do it on my own, but I knew I wouldn't make myself study economics on my own. Ally Carter