Quotes about writ
writing clear
I see but one rule: to be clear. Stendhal
writing goal different
I've always worked on all different types of music, some with specific project goals and deadlines and some not. Sometimes I would write a piece of music that is almost like a film score or weird electro pieces, wherever the muse took me, and I still do that. Serj Tankian
writing sitting sitting-down
It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write. Steven Pressfield
writing acting balance
I am devoting some time to music. I'm finding a balance in my life right now so that when I'm not acting I'm really working on the music side of things... producing and writing and recording and also getting to do some live shows. It's a really exciting thing. Steven Bauer
writing use
Don't explain why it works; explain how you use it. Steven Brust
writing structure money-and-power
Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power. Sun Ra
writing two brain
I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two. Sue Grafton
writing plot fiction
I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot. Richard Hell
writing pieces kind
I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant..Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre. Richard Aldington
writing polite explicit
We're in a chronic debt-deflation. There's no way we can recover unless you write down the debts. And that's what the IMF basically is implying (and it was explicit regarding Greece), but its not spelling it out, because that's not what can be said in polite company.
writing love-is secret-love
Love is easy, and I love writing. Ray Bradbury
writing stories week
Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
writing creativity thinking
I've always loved writing, and the impulse for me is storytelling. I don't sit down and think: 'What political message can I sell?' I love the creativity of it. Randa Abdel-Fattah
writing self giving
I have always thought of poems as stepping stones in one's own sense of oneself. Every now and again, you write a poem that gives you self-respect and steadies your going a little bit farther out in the stream. At the same time, you have to conjure the next stepping stone because the stream, we hope, keeps flowing. Seamus Heaney
writing tired order
I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it. Sherman Alexie
writing pages
Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
writing literature condescension-and
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.
writing weekend vacation
I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back. Sloane Crosley
writing assumption
There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true. Siri Hustvedt
writing stories feds
I just started to write because I was fed up of not seeing the stories that I wanted, so I was like 'Stop moaning and write something.' Noel Clarke
writing should-have epic-poems
It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth. Miguel de Cervantes
writing home people
I’m an author. We don’t want to lead. We don’t need to follow. We stay home and make stuff up and write it down and send it out into the world, and get inside people’s heads. Perhaps we change the world and perhaps we don’t. We never know. We just make stuff up. Neil Gaiman
writing pages starting
I'm writing. The pages are starting to stack up. My morale is improving the more I feel like a writer.
writing design program
Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry Ted Nelson
writing men doe
The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done. Theodore Roosevelt
writing willing
Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical. Terry McMillan
writing ease
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite. Margaret Mitchell
writing self loathing
I procrastinate to a point where I'm filled with self-loathing and then I start writing. It's usually a state of self-loathing that gets me going. Michael Lewis
writing different world
I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile. Melissa Rosenberg
writing world kind
When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world. Michael Ondaatje
writing artist defining
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. Max Eastman
writing stories
I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories. Maxine Hong Kingston
writing emotional way
By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry. Max Beerbohm