Quotes about writ
writing gusto wells
We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto. Henry David Thoreau
writing luck literature
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
writing men style
Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible,--as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no more than the stylus, the pen he writes with; and it is not worth scraping and polishing, and gilding, unless it will write his thoughts the better for it. It is something for use, and not to look at. The question for us is, not whether Pope had a fine style, wrote with a peacock's feather, but whether he uttered useful thoughts.
writing talking breathing
It's not what you do. It's the way you do it-stripping, or writing, or talking . . . or just breathing. Do it with an air, and never admit you're scared. Gypsy Rose Lee
writing decided knows
I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided. Gyorgy Ligeti
writing together bars
I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.
writing discovery joy
There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident. H. L. Mencken
writing blow trying
You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.
writing projects aim
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
writing soul desire
The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.
writing easier exciting
It's exciting to do something you're writing. And it's also a lot easier to memorize because you wrote it. Jillian Bell
writing thinking people
I think the hardest part of writing anything is getting exposition out easily, without hitting people over the head with it.
writing hip-hop musical
I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop. Jill Scott
writing character sandwiches
All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.
writing firsts so-hurt
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.
writing contemporary-fiction voice
I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up. Jessica Hagedorn
writing influential film
Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.
writing thinking dialogue
I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.
writing character thinking
It's a fact, the majority of films in Hollywood are from the male perspective. And the female characters, very rarely do they get to speak to another female character in a movie, and when they do it's usually about a guy, not anything else. So they're very male-centric, Hollywood films, in general. So I think it's incredible that Ned Benson, when I said I'd love to know where she goes, says okay, I'm going to write another film from the female perspective. Jessica Chastain
writing thinking self
I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too. Jerry Harrison
writing space columns
Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space. Jeremy Clarkson
writing use firsts
When I was working on my first novel, 'The Quilter's Apprentice,' I knew I wanted to write about friendship, especially women's friendship and how women use friendship to sustain themselves and nurture each other. Jennifer Chiaverini
writing feelings trouble
One area I have a huge amount of trouble in is writing about myself. I get a heavy, almost depressed feeling. Jennifer Egan
writing stuff form
Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.
writing trying worst
I am at my worst trying to write about things that overlap with my life.
writing stuff regularity
Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.
writing opposites way
That adage about 'Write what you know' is basically the opposite of the way I function. I write about what I'm curious to find out.
writing normal strange
We're [writers] all afraid of writing badly, and there are psychological reasons, like the bad interior of ourselves is somehow being revealed, but we all fear that, and you can't write well if you're not willing to write badly. That's why you have to make writing a habit, so it feels normal and not strange.
writing years squad
Goon Squad' took about three years to write and that's the short end. My second novel, 'Look at Me,' took six years.
writing technology thinking
I write fiction longhand. That's not so much about rejecting technology as being unable to write fiction on a computer for some reason. I don't think I would write it on a typewriter either. I write in a very blind gut instinctive way. It just doesn't feel right. There's a physical connection. And then in nonfiction that's not the case at all. I can't even imagine writing nonfiction by hand.
writing ideas interesting
A sense of that kind of narrative movement that we experience online could have been in my mind easily, though not consciously. I do rely so much on my unconscious, the way I write my stuff the way I do. I let my unconscious work. I have better ideas that way and more interesting work.
writing sublime lessons
The sublime moment seems to be only a product of allowing yourself to get through, to get to a lot of stuff in your life, write about a lot of stuff and not edit yourself. That is a great lesson to learn for anybody that writes or creates in anyway, to be able to make something without being good or bad. Jeff Tweedy
writing thinking people
To be honest, I’m more concerned with living my life than writing about my life. I feel like that’s really the main thing I know now that I didn’t know when I was younger — and that is that you have to have a life to write about one. If you’re more worried about having experiences so you can write about them, I think you’re kinda being ridiculous, and I think a lot of young people look at it like that.