Quotes about writ
writing dark trying
I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true. Julianna Baggott
writing cutting fighting
Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.
writing plot want
I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've written to inches, word-counts, page-counts, even the sonnet and the screenplay (which I call a plot poem). I write narrative. That's it. I just want to tell it.
writing bored childhood
I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.
writing genre-is feelings
One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling - even fleetingly - that I'm not just writing like Baggott again. I can escape myself.
writing passion agonizing
Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
writing thinking trying
Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.
writing intricacy formal
The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.
writing boundaries genre
I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
writing men want
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.
writing careers people
I'm really loving acting. I want this as a career. I'll still write music and collaborate with people, but I'm focused on the acting path. Julianne Hough
writing touring enjoy
My whole life was writing, recording and touring over and over again. At some point I realised I wasn't enjoying myself any more. Juliana Hatfield
writing helping help-me
Writing helps me process things that are happening to me.
writing america marketing
There was a period of time in America where the advertising world actually went to the housewives of America and had them write jingles that would appeal to them. It was actually brilliant marketing. Julianne Moore
writing thinking people
I think we overrate experience and what we've been through in terms of our success at doing the work we do. There are many people who get beat up, who suffer, who are victimized, and then they sit down to write and they write crap. Jules Feiffer
writing brain littles
The artwork had very little to do with the thought process, and the writing too, for that matter. What happens, happens, and it happens outside the brain.
writing past light
Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either won on paper or held to a draw.
writing play actors
When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience on stage with the actors and to get them thoroughly involved in what's going on.
writing doe three
Talent is a question of quantity. Talent does not write one page; it writes three hundred. Jules Renard
writing oxen genius
In literature, there are only oxen. The biggest ones are the geniuses-the ones who toil eighteen hours a day without tiring.
writing way interrupted
Writing is the best way to talk without being interrupted.
writing talking way
Writing is a way of talking without being interrupted.
writing style forget
Style is to forget all styles.
writing pay cows
There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.
writing differences people
The difference between people who can read and write and those who can't is just absolutely astronomical.
writing able economy
It's actually very hard to find an area of the economy that doesn't fundamentally change in the measure that we are able to read and write life code.
writing poverty wealth
Seneca devoted much of his time to writing essays in praise of poverty, and in lending money at usurious rates. Josh Billings
writing sentences
We have some writers so abstruse and deep that they drown themselves in their fathomless sentences.
writing ideas feelings
An idea's birth is legitimate if one has the feeling that one is catching oneself plagiarizing oneself. Karl Kraus
writing literature aphorism
Someone who can write aphorisms should not fritter away his time in essays.
writing enough historian
What is a historian? Someone who doesn't write well enough to work on a daily.
writing thinking waiting
My readers think that I write for the day because my writings are based on the day. So I shall have to wait until my writings are obsolete. Then they may acquire timeliness.
writing criticism critics
Most critics write critiques which are by the authors they write critiques about. That would not be so bad, but then most authorswrite works which are by the critics who write critiques about them.