Quotes about writing
writing play voice
I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright. Atom Egoyan
writing hardest hard
Writing is hard - writing is the hardest. Aubrey Plaza
writing thinking steps
Writing lets you step back and think through a problem. Even the angriest rant forces the writer to achieve a degree of thoughtfulness. Atul Gawande
writing thinking trying
Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going.
writing mind speech
Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech. Aristotle
writing details stories
As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.
writing speak easy
In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.
writing views castles
Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different. Ben Hecht
writing people intellectual
The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
writing knowing discipline
Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it's done. Ben Harper
writing inspire relate
You can't write if you can't relate. Beck
writing eight years
Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
writing spots studios
I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
writing pulse said
The subject’s pulse increased on contact,” he said. “Don’t write that. Becca Fitzpatrick
writing guy stuff
If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music.
writing brave firsts
You have to be very brave in that first writing session. Barry Mann
writing thinking insanity
I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
writing thinking waiting
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
writing creating mad
You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
writing stale
You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
writing advice together
If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work you set for yourself. That done, be the untutored traveler, the eager reader, the enthusiastic listener. Put what you learn together carefully, and then write thoughtfully, with respect both for the reader and your sources. Barry Lopez
writing looks stories
The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It's not that I'm not interested-it's not where I live. I live inside the story.
writing empowering trying
Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing. B. D. Wong
writing laughing people
The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh. B. J. Novak
writing golf swings
Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing. Bill Simmons
writing should-have clubs
I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today. Bill Shankly
writing pieces finished
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due. Bill Condon
writing thinking dying
I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. Petrarch
writing hands mind
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.
writing desire praying
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
writing decision gone
I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves. Bijou Phillips
writing exotic agendas
[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar. Bharati Mukherjee
writing stories moral
The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story. C. S. Lewis