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 artist zest
An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to make creation possible; or an instinct to climb through his problems in his own way as he should, and must. Christopher Fry
writing floating rooms
Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing. Christine McVie
writing responsibility people
We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in personal introspection. We have enough common psychology under our belts to know that psychology doesn't explain or heal everything and that it isn't the fulfillment of awareness, but its beginning. We are undergoing a shift in paradigms in which we are trying to develop new models for humanness and human responsibility. This is no small task. Our individual lives are placed under increasing pressure to respond adequately to both inner and outer change. Christina Baldwin
writing creating lifetime
The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift.
writing journey maps
Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.
writing desire stories
Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.
writing reflection bridges
Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.
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 inspire listening-to-music
Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now Christina Milian
writing mean cutting
Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the meat of what you're saying. Chris Stapleton
writing thinking laughing
I don't write jokes first. I write down topics. I think of what I want to talk about, and then I write the jokes - they don't write me... And even if you don't think it's funny, you won't think it's boring. You might disagree, but you'll listen. And maybe even laugh as you disagree. Chris Rock
writing laughing want
The thing about having an audience right there laughing is that critics can write what they want, but the proof is right there in front of you.
writing two trying
I never really write the jokes. I just sit down over a week or two and try to figure out what I want to talk about. Once I narrow that down, then I start working on the material, like "How do I make this stuff funny?"