Quotes about writ
writing poetry making-love
Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love. Gao Xingjian
writing reality self
If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his observations will far surpass objective descriptions of reality.
writing profound want
I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.
writing people survival
For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.
writing self literature
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
writing suffering ease
Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
writing dry hungry
You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat Frederic Chopin
writing hair rocks
It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling, as pale as ever, in a cell with such doors as Paris never had for gates. The cell is the shape of a tall coffin, with an enormous dusty vaulting, a small window... Bach, my scrawls and waste paper - silence - you could scream - there would still be silence. Indeed, I write to you from a strange place.
writing might next
I might just write a novel next. I don't know! Frank Ocean
writing stories next
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.
writing home lions
I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den. Frank Miller
writing journalism shows
The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
writing strategy ifs
If you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy. George C. Marshall
writing editors editing
The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the editors, and then to have a first draft and get it back and work to fix it, I love reworking, I love editing, love love love revision, revision, revision, revision. George Carlin
writing composing sentences
I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. Christopher Hitchens
writing alcohol add
I'm very happy by myself--I'm lucky in that way--if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit of alcohol for me to add an edge, not to dull it.
writing thinking views
Its much like writing a screenplay with someone else and thats how we view it, I think. Christopher Darden
writing thinking controversial
I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.
writing emotional thinking
I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.
writing play firsts
So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot. I find with my absurdist plays that I was actually writing about my family, but so disguised I didn't realize it myself. Christopher Durang
writing thinking would-be
I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do. Christina Romer
writing voice mind
It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind. Chris Messina
writing fate risk
Preparation is not only about managing external risks, but about limiting the likelihood that you'll unwittingly add to them. When you're the author of your own fate, you don't want to write a tragedy. Aside from anything else, the possibility of a sequel is nonexistent. Chris Hadfield
writing stranger dear
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought. Gertrude Stein
writing thinking
Thinking visually is my starting point, and then the writing happens. Gerard Way
writing thinking looks
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological! Hans Magnus Enzensberger
writing ifs accidents
I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident. Gordon Getty
writing men serious-illness
I know of no other practise which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects. There is a great potential within each of us to go on learning. Regardless of our age, unless there be serious illness, we can read, study, drink in the writings of wonderful men and women. It is never too late to learn. Gordon B. Hinckley
writing men verdi
A man like Verdi must write like Verdi. Giuseppe Verdi
writing ideas giving
Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all, it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English. Glen Cook
writing civilization progress
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization. Gerald Durrell
writing hands use
About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other. Harper Lee
writing should-have done
The day it comes out, there's already things that you start to go, 'Oh, I should have done that a little differently.' You start to make a list in your head. I actually write things down -- what I'm going to do next time. Howie Day