Quotes about writ
writing names childhood
What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours. James Joyce
writing novel great-things
I always knew writing a novel was a great thing. James Salter
writing ideas people
You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.
writing ideas effort
My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don’t.
writing waiting right-time
If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes. James Russell Lowell
writing phones information
Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process. Laura Hillenbrand
writing paid bloggers
Oh, you know what bloggers are like, they write and write and write. I don't know why, because they're not being paid. Jon Ronson
writing people trying
Discover the time of day when you write best, and write then. For me it's about 7 am to noon. For other people it's overnight. Try not to do anything other than write between those times.
writing trying stories
Obviously, I like to write stories that are page-turners. But I always try my very, very hardest to be as factually true as possible.
writing trying mystery
Trying to solve the mystery is what I enjoy most about writing.
writing rocks dancing
As a performing group, the Beatles began by playing old rock favorites, for dancing, to tough audiences in Liverpool and Hamburg. When they began writing seriously, they discovered that they couldn't compose in the early American rock tradition. Jon Landau
writing secret fantasy
I never studied writing, but I'd always been a reader and had a secret fantasy about being a writer. Jon Krakauer
writing views symphony
Now what is history? It is the centuries of systematic explorations of the riddle of death, with a view to overcoming death. That’s why people discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves, that’s why they write symphonies..
writing practice mindfulness
Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice. Jon Kabat-Zinn
writing airplane meditation
I like to write on airplanes... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed to go to places it wouldn't otherwise go. Jon Foreman
writing hands names
Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up. Johnny Winter
writing emotional keys
If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed. Jojo Moyes
writing community fickle
The skating community is very fickle. And with me, they're especially fickle for whatever reason. Maybe I bring it on myself, but if you don't prove yourself and you don't skate consistently, then they can very easily write you off and bring somebody from behind you and put them in your place. Johnny Weir
writing years challenges
That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year. John Zorn
writing trying pieces
When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way
writing thinking creative
I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive. You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself.
writing world unconventional
I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional. Lynn Shelton
writing up-to-you life-is
I've always felt that life is a novel, and part of it is written for you, and part of it is written by you. It's up to you to write the ending, ultimately Lynn Johnston
writing faces
One cannot choose what he writes - one can only choose to face it. Luigi Pirandello
writing men doe
The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.
writing years ideas
I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time... before writing them down... once I have grasped a theme. I shall not forget it even years later. I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head... [the work] rises, it grows, I hear and see the image n front of me from every angle... and only the labor of writing it down remains... I turn my ideas into tones that resound, roar, and rage until at last they stand before me in the form of notes. Ludwig van Beethoven
writing thinking long
I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time, often for a very long time, before writing them down.
writing letters alphabet
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
writing heart honor
I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.
writing imagination trying
I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to elaborate the work in its breadth, its narrowness, its height, its depth...I hear and see the image in front of me from every angle as if it had been cast and only the labour of writing it down remains.
writing style deceit
If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit. Ludwig Wittgenstein
writing play piano
I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too. Luc Ferrari
writing compassion conviction
Hannah writes of love with compassion and conviction. Luanne Rice