Quotes about writ
writing play fearless
Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure. Natalie Goldberg
writing computer pens
I still write with pen and paper and have someone type it on a computer. But rewriting I do by hand.
writing down-and shut-up
Finally, one just has to shut up, sit down, and write.
writing waiting speak
Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.
writing thinking practice
What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind...The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mann ered, congenial.
writing heart secret
The deepest secret in our heart of hearts is that we are writing because we love the world.
writing shut-up
Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.
writing meditation mind
Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind.
writing thinking tennis
Understand that writing is like an athletic activity. To play tennis well, you expect to keep practicing, but for some reason with writing, you think you should come out fresh the first time.
writing bothering-you hands
If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
writing waiting stories
Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.
writing kind all-kinds
You don't need to go to a therapist, you don't need to do all kinds of things. If you want to write, you physically have to do it.
writing hands joy
There's an old adage in writing: 'Don't tell, but show.' Writing is not psychology. We do not talk 'about' feelings. Instead the writer feels and through her words awakens those feelings in the reader. The writer takes the reader's hand and guides him through the valley of sorrow and joy without ever having to mention those words.
writing love-is things-in-life
My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything. Taylor Swift
writing wish mail
Sometimes when relationships end, you write an e-mail and say everything you wish you said. Sometimes you don't push send.
writing ive-learned made
I've learned through writing that if something made me feel deeply or anything at all, it was worth it.
writing
I always have to be writing.
writing singing lucky
I'm so lucky that I get to write my own music and write my own stories, so every single time I look down in the audience and I see somebody singing the words back to me, it makes it all worth it.
writing knowing skins
I have an obsession with knowing the answers to things. When I don't know what happened, it just bothers me, gets under my skin, and I need to write about it.
writing goal perspective
Politics disappears; it vanishes. What remains constant is human life. So I try to develop a perspective in my writing where politics is just one of the pieces of furniture in this furnished world. It is not the purpose. It is not the goal. Tatyana Tolstaya
writing practice honor
I am always urging my students to honor their writing practice, to set up a schedule. Tayari Jones
writing people novel
When you write a novel, you make other people see your imaginary friends.
writing thinking creating
I try to be very honest in my writing. It's amazing, though, to think that people are responding to what we do, but it's okay if they're responding in a positive way too, because I think just creating anything at all to put out there is a gift. Tavi Gevinson
writing trying notes
I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do. Tatiana Maslany
writing thinking issues
If I wrote about "being [abstraction]" I would be ignoring existential issues (such as death, limited-time, the arbitrary nature of the universe, the mystery of consciousness) that I feel affect me most in my life and think about most of the time. Another reason is that it doesn't seem specific or accurate, to me, to write about "being [abstraction]." I think there are some other reasons. Tao Lin
writing thinking views
If a context and a goal is defined I could say if it's good or bad. But overall I don't view things as good or bad. So I'm like a robot or computer in that sense. So maybe that's why people don't think they know me when they read my writing.
writing comedy painting
I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things. Takeshi Kitano
writing responsibility thinking
As a writer, I don't think it's my responsibility to make a point. I just write and hope there's someone who'll like it. Tama Janowitz
writing hip-hop culture
I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC. Josh Peck
writing airports bed
Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north. Kate Mosse
writing people fiction
I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't. Laurell K. Hamilton
writing color people
I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant, you've got something. Write the whole thing first and then say he's an accountant. That's a very wacky accountant, but so what? Theatricality feeds and challenges the actor, the director, and the designers. Lanford Wilson
writing people wonder
How do you prevent people from doing inappropriate things? We can write laws. But at the end of the day, I actually wonder what the board was doing. John Kasich