Quotes about writing
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. Amy Lowell
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
writing doe psychologist
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry. Allen Tate
writing men cities
I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends. And I’d like to keep living with someone — maybe even a man — and explore relationships that way. And cultivate my perceptions, cultivate the visionary thing in me. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence. Allen Ginsberg
writing down-and distinction
There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.
writing interesting people
The parts that embarrass you the most are usually the most interesting poetically, are usually the most naked of all, the rawest, the goofiest, the strangest and most eccentric and at the same time, most representative, most universal... That was something I earned from Kerouac, which was that spontaneous writing could be embarrassing... The cure for that is to write the thing down which you will not publish and which you won't show people. To write secretly... so you can actually be free to say anything you want.
writing self recognition
one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others
writing voice saint
To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.
writing listening care
Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.
writing voice design
To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.
writing mean current-events
Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events. Allan Gurganus
writing worry
Writers write about what worries them. Alistair MacLeod
writing thinking stories
I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.
writing born enjoy
I'm not a born writer, and I don't enjoy writing. Alistair Maclean
writing talking years
I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking. Alistair Cooke
writing challenges different
I like to write in all different genres. I just like a new challenge. Alison McGhee
writing play two-friends
I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.
writing together
Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word.
writing comedian want
I'm not a comedy writer, I'm a comedian, so I only write stuff that I would want to say. Anthony Jeselnik
writing comedy wanted
I got into comedy because I wanted to get into writing.
writing voice very-good
I enjoyed writing for someone elses voice, but I wasnt very good at it.
writing people tragedy
On Twitter, when someone would die, I would write a joke. Or if there's a tragedy, I would write a joke and tweet it. That was my thing, and then at a certain point, people started demanding it.
writing get-better said
I would write 100 jokes a day. Most of them were terrible. But I just said, 'I'll write more than everybody else, and that's how I'll get better.'
writing way retarded
Sure, retarded jokes write themselves. But the spelling is always way off.
writing
No one can write like Cheryl Strayed. Ann Hood
writing thinking world
To write a story, I think you really have to open yourself up to the world. Ann Brashares