Quotes about writing
writing memorable trying
If you try to write something that's memorable, you'll never get it. Sometimes it's the way the actor says the words that make it memorable. Cameron Crowe
writing rocks age
Probably having fallen in love with music and movies at a young age and then first learning about writing by kind of following the path of writers like Dave Marsh and Lester Bangs and being a rock journalist.
writing thinking degrees
Well it kind of is project to project because as a writer I think you always write to some degree about things that you know or things that happened - but my favourite filmmakers, my favourite movies of theirs tend to be the personal movies.
writing people matter
You just never know if people out there will relate to things when you write them; it matters to you, and to some people it doesn't. Some people are 'I'm not in the mood for that; thanks.'
writing mean rose
Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose. C. S. Lewis
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I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself.
writing thinking superstitions
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely. Anne Tyler
writing wife window
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window. Burton Rascoe
writing single-person persons
Writing humor is not something every single person can do. Celia Rivenbark
writing affair autobiography
I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone. Celia Johnson
writing directors enjoy
I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too. Carter Burwell
writing doe tennessee
This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation? I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, 'How could you dare write that story, it's the most frightening work I have ever read.' I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it. Carson McCullers
writing passion love-is
Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
writing feelings way
It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right. Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
writing
Writing, for me, is a search for God.
writing rocks phantoms
The writer must hew the phantom rock.
writing shapes arriving
I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape. Carol Ann Duffy
writing poetry
I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.
writing feelings trying
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
writing first-love firsts
I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love. Carol Burnett
writing way
What I do when I write is I just write the way I would tell it, so it comes out just exactly the way I would talk to you.
writing band talent
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best. Carla Bley
writing care writing-music
I care about writing music and playing my music. Carla Bruni
writing class trying
For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful. Alan Lightman
writing magic-realism long
I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
writing groups different
In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
writing views world
Every essay - the subject matter of every essay - is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.
writing thinking creating
My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you're not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You're actually discovering in the writing process, you're actually creating knowledge.
writing our-world interesting
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
writing people sophisticated
I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated. Alan Furst
writing use plot
I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
writing character
Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.
writing simple world
When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent. Alan Garner