Quotes about writing
writing alive wells
I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well. Dani Shapiro
writing inspire way
Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.
writing practice sitting-down
Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.
writing persistence rejection
The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself. To be gentle with oneself. To look at the world without blinders on. To observe and withstand what one sees. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks. To be willing to fail - not just once, but again and again, over the course of a lifetime.
writing ongoing needs
Everything you need to know about life can be learned from a genuine and ongoing attempt to write
writing simple answers
How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'
writing way window
Writing has been my window-flung wide open to this magnificent, chaotic existence-my way of interpreting everything within my grasp.
writing decision lasts
Life is filled with potential that is truly unfathomable. At last we are coming to see the enormous power it possesses. That is why we must never write anyone off. In particular, we mustn’t put boundaries on our own potential. In most cases, our so-called limitations are nothing more than our own decision to limit ourselves. Daisaku Ikeda
writing actors process
Shakespeare teaches you how to act. You come out of this process as a better actor. It's just the nature of the words he writes. Condola Rashad
writing people trying
Sometimes people decide to write reports even though they haven't been to Guantanamo . And so I would just suggest that people look at some of the work that's been done by people who have been there. But that's not to say that we will not be very glad at the day that conditions permit the closure of Guantanamo and the trying of its inhabitants or for their release. Condoleezza Rice
writing thinking role-models
I know that people look at my life and ask, "How can I achieve some of those things?" So, I suppose in that sense, yes, I'm a role model. But I try to think of myself more as a mentor, as somebody who I hope young people feel comfortable approaching or writing to.
writing people shy
I'm always shy and timid when I write in front of people. Colbie Caillat
writing guitar records
Whenever I'm on tour and I'm in my hotel room and I'm writing and playing my guitar, I go in the bathroom and I record whatever I'm writing in there. It's just what I love to do.
writing character thinking
I don't think Aaron Sorkin can write a character who isn't really funny. Clark Gregg
writing flying would-be
I thought there would be more time in my trailer to write during 'Agents Of S.H.I.E.L.D.,' but I seem to be always flying in a harness and conquering supervillains instead.
writing fighting thinking
I think segregation is bad, I think it's wrong, it's immoral. I'd fight against it with every breath in my body, but you don't need to sit next to a white person to learn how to read and write. The NAACP needs to say that. Clarence Thomas
writing perfect-days heaven
My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time. Cormac McCarthy
writing stuff bigs
The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s. Colin Baker
writing people historical
The great thing about dealing with people about whom we have historical resources, is that if the writing needs work, there's everywhere to go to enrich it. Colin Firth
writing thinking should-have
I don't know if there's a problem with original ideas... I think a healthy film industry should have a good supply of good, original writing.
writing today garbage
I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors. Cleveland Amory
writing long rotten
It has long been a theory of mine and I am known, if I do say so, for my long theories that authors, generally speaking, are rotten letter writers.
writing love-poems should
Someone Should Write Me a Love Poem but I'm Stuck Doing It Myself Daphne Gottlieb
writing make-sense
I write to make sense of things that dont make sense to me.
writing needs building
That's point of writing: building what you need, right?
writing people doubt
The people around you are you. They share your history. They can even write it with you. And when you lose one, there's no doubt you lose some of yourself, however they're lost. Danny Wallace
writing thinking ideas
I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example, something might happen to me today and it could be something to talk about tomorrow on the radio, or I can write about it, or perhaps it will be best suited to telly.
writing long hills
Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone. Daphne du Maurier
writing scary firsts
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
writing belief should
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
writing relax exhausted
It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another. Dan Simmons
writing inspired terrified
No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
writing thinking people
I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty. I think that's what helps the advice sink in. If somebody comes at you with both barrels, the first shot opens your head, and the second shot allows the advice to get lodged inside. Dan Savage