Quotes about writing
writing thinking mirrors
I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that they know but they don't know. Claudia Rankine
writing nervous tics
I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint. Clare Boothe Luce
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
writing good-writing
My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down. Dick Schaap
writing focus chinese
I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India. Devdutt Pattanaik
writing home office
I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people. Dermot Healy
writing player league
If you write in the paper 'Lee stinks,' that's not going to affect me. I'll just laugh. And if you write 'Derrek Lee is the best player in the league,' that won't affect me either. I'll laugh. Derrek Lee
writing average poetry
If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average. Derek Walcott
writing reason programming
Learning. It's really the primary reason behind everything I do. Programming, entrepreneuring, writing. Derek Sivers
writing needs said
Major writing is to say what has been seen, so that it need never be said again. Delmore Schwartz
writing enjoy feels
I really am enjoying writing more than ever. I feel like I'm so much more focused than I was in the early times. Debbie Harry
writing long people
People talk differently. You can say some things some places you can't say in other places. But me as a film maker, no words are ever going to be off limits in something I write. As long as people use the words, I'm going to report that. Dax Shepard
writing games chess-game
The acting is something that will always be a part of my life, but the writing gives me a lot more creative freedom. You're a pawn in somebody else's chess game, whereas as a writer and as a director, you get to call the shots. And that's very thrilling. Amber Benson
writing instinct
Writing is above all a question of instinct. Anthony Powell
writing ideas answers
The whole idea of interviews is in itself absurd - one cannot answer deep questions about what one's life was like - one writes novels about it.
writing laughing paper
Anytime I can get either of them really laughing, I immediately pull out a pad of paper write the joke down, regardless of where we are or what we're doing. I must be absolutely insufferable. Anthony Marra
writing able film
I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write, Anthony Minghella
writing men looks
The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world.
writing enjoy good-writing
I never feel more myself than when I’m writing; I never enjoy any day more than a good writing day.
writing able directors
I had never thought of myself as a director and found out that I was not. I am a writer who was able to direct the films that I write.
writing hands waiting
Waiting is part of writing. When I write the word 'waiting' by hand it even looks like 'writing.'