Quotes about writing
writing effort noble
No reader owes me anything - I am owed nothing for my noble efforts, because my writing was always unconditional, always coming out of inner necessity. Aleksandar Hemon
writing literature assumption
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.
writing fighting different
For a fight to be productive, or at least relevant, writers should fight over different demands they put upon writing (as an individual, private act) and literature (a network of relations in which we are all involved).
writing thinking years
I'm not nervous if I think about something for nine years and then I don't write it. Even if it fades it doesn't concern me. It'll come back if it's worth it.
writing bad-writing language
There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.
writing agency different
Writing is a mode of agency in the world that is different from mere employment. There has to be some sort of ethical or moral drive, even if you are unaware of it.
writing related
To write has to be related to a drive inside.
writing fiction literature
The beauty of literature - also its limit - is that it is inescapably personal, even if you're writing science fiction.
writing long retreat
I long for, not a writer's retreat - I can write in any situation - but a reader's retreat.
writing sometimes said
Sometimes I don't write at all. Someone once asked me, "What do you do when you're not writing?" And I said, "I idle."
writing brain fiction
I cannot live or write without music. It stimulates the normally dormant parts of my brain that come in handy when constructing fiction.
writing secret firsts
The secret is that when you've been pitched head first into hell you just write about it Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
writing exercise stories
I made commercials for corporations like Volkswagen and Coca-Cola, but I was always the one to write them, too, which was a very good exercise, because I learned to tell little stories. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
writing years everyday
My writing routine is everyday I put a record on, the same one since 20 years. Then I burn a stick of incense, I put perfume here on the insides of my soles, I paint my left testicle red, and I write. Alejandro Jodorowsky
writing law appeals
All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself Aleister Crowley
writing men thinking
Man has the right . . . to play as he will . . . to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will.
writing old-testament models
The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.
writing layers method
I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer. Alberto Moravia
writing thinking personality
I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality.
writing ratios literacy
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
writing night light
In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. Alberto Manguel
writing library sake
Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.
writing men good-man
I count it a high honor to belong to a profession in which the good men write every paragraph, every sentence, every line, as lovingly as any Addison or Steele, and do so in full regard that by tomorrow it will have been burned, or used, if at all, to line a shelf. Alexander Woollcott
writing names draws
I like to write and draw everything with sharpies. I even got one with my own name on it! Alexander Wang
writing pleasure publish
Write for pleasure and publish for money. Alexander Pushkin
writing stuff kind
I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff. Abigail Breslin
writing makeup hair
I want to do wardrobe. I want to do hair. I want to do makeup. I want to do writing. I want to do directing. I want to do all of it. I like it. And I want to do producing.
writing rose fees
With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get. Abel Ferrara
writing reality mirrors
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics, and other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties. Aberjhani
writing light variation
Collect impressions. Don't be in a hurry to write them down. Because that's something music can do better than painting: it can centralise variations of colour and light within a single picture a truth generally ignored, obvious as it is. Claude Debussy
writing biographies ill
Others are writing my biography, and let it rest as they elect to make it. I have lived my life, well and ill, always less well than I wanted it to be but it is, as it is, and as it has been; so small a thing, to have had so much about it! Clara Barton
writing society world
There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing Claude Levi-Strauss
writing class cities
The only phenomenon with which writing has always been concomitant is the creation of cities and empires, that is the integration of large numbers of individuals into a political system, and their grading into castes or classes. It seems to have favored the exploitation of human beings rather than their enlightenment.