Quotes about writing
writing years nuclear
I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Berkeley Breathed
writing indulge-in people
I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me. Ashton Kutcher
writing ideas enough
Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas. Arnold Schoenberg
writing proud way
I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!
writing cold ifs
If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us. Antonia Fraser
writing bedtime prison
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
writing self-confidence maine
Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.
writing ideas tomorrow
I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.
writing thinking order
I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
writing long stories
Right now in American writing there is no genre as exciting as memoir - the writer can do anything, as long as it works. It's like the 1920s up in this joint. So, I'd say, experiment with how you tell the story. In the best memoir it's not the what, it's how the writer tells the what - meaning and effect through form. Anthony Swofford
writing men creative
If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of mind he is seeking to avoid is no more than a mild state of depression or apathy, this still constitutes a cogent reason for engaging in creative work even when it brings no obvious external benefit in its train. Anthony Storr
writing player two
I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't. And clearly the ones who wrote music were more superior human beings in his mind. So he kind of nudged me and sort of prodded me into it. I picked it up slowly. Then I learned more about chords and harmony and I just kept adding to that. One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way. Bill Bruford
writing piano pieces
Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.
writing program
I write my programs primarily for myself. Bill Budge
writing hands track
You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.
writing sick laughing
The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian. Bill Burr
writing paid
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible. Bertrand Russell
writing air creative
Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that suddenly a theme will take hold of me and refuse to leave me in peace until I investigate it and write it. Isabel Allende
writing ideas stories
Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.
writing world sometimes
What happens in the world affects me. Sometimes, that's part of the writing.
writing stories ends
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
writing years i-have-learned
I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
writing choices calling
Writing is a calling, not a choice.
writing exercise mirrors
A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.
writing joy complaining
No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and write words on paper. There is no greater freedom, no greater good, nothing that brings more joy.
writing silence able
After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.
writing impact stronger
I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.
writing names forgotten
Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.
writing two three
The first two, three, four weeks are wasted. I just show up in front of the computer. Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn't show up invited, eventually she just shows up.
writing dry-up soul
If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.
writing exercise longing
Writing is a constant exercise in longing.
writing space use
From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.
writing reality confusion
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!