Quotes about writ
writing may realizing
I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to realize that the truth isn't always the same for everyone. I had to realize that my truth may not be the same as your truth. Pat Murphy
writing charity gestures
Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off? Padgett Powell
writing great-writers
I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter. Paddy Chayefsky
writing heart men
Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it Pablo Casals
writing breathing
For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing. Pablo Neruda
writing gone far-away
While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone.
writing men hands
Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes to pieces like a rotten pie, you... gather together whatever can be salvaged, while I cup my hands around the live coal of life.
writing men serious-man
Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject. Plato
writing simple belief
. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .
writing men swim
A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.
writing soul geometry
Writing is the geometry of the soul.
writing thinking wells
I don’t think I write well—just better than anyone else, Philip Larkin
writing trying poetry-is
It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.
writing novel deeper
Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
writing pity good-authors
There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
writing kind fantasy
Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.
writing sleep organization
I can't understand these chaps who go round American universities explaining how they write poems: It's like going round explaining how you sleep with your wife.
writing thinking people
I think writing about unhappiness is probably the source of my popularity, if I have any - after all, most people are unhappy, don't you think?
writing modern-novel ends
Many modern novels have a beginning, a muddle and an end.
writing easy young
It's easy to write when you've nothing to write about (That is, when you are young)....
writing sober feds
To write you must be warm, fed, loved and sober.
writing self two
When I get sent manuscripts from aspiring poets, I do one of two things: if there is no stamped self-addressed envelope, I throw it into the bin.-If there is, I write and tell them to f**k off.
writing successful
I tried to write with someone else once before, but it was not successful. Paula Danziger
writing twenties busy
In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going. Paula Fox
writing doctors voice
I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have it. They're tone-deaf, even though they're very fluent. It's an ability, like anything else, being a doctor or a veterinarian, or a musician.
writing years class
I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.
writing people trying
I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music. Paul Weller
writing thinking people
People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from
writing thinking goal
I once had a young musician come to me and say that he wanted to be a professional musician. I asked him to write his list. When he came back to me, the three things in his life he most wanted were: to be paid for his music; to travel around the world; to meet new people. We came to the decision, after thinking really creatively, that if he got a job on a cruise ship, he would fulfill those goals. Phil Keoghan
writing thoughtful winning
People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to do it. They write it down so they stay on course, and avoid any alternative that does not get them closer to the finish line. Phil McGraw
writing stories world
The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it. Mary E. Pearson
writing phones up-early
I get up early and open my emails, write cheques, and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done. Martin Parr
writing secret surprise
I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me. Lee Child