Quotes about writ
writing mystery songwriting
Much of songwriting is simply a mystery. Paul Simon
writing records albums
I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.
writing thinking years
Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. It sort of scared me. That's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come. ... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in.
writing parent sensitive
Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing. Robert Morgan
writing southern narrative
Southern poets are still writing narrative poems, poems in forms, dramatic poems.
writing people doubt
Some people swear by writing courses, but whether it really helps American poetry, I have doubts.
writing thinking creative
I don't think the creative writing industry has helped American poetry.
writing thinking fiction
I think that it's more likely that in my 60s and 70s I will be writing poetry rather than fiction.
writing past thinking
I don't think American poetry has gotten any better in the past 35 years. Oddly enough, creative writing programs seem to have been good for fiction, and I would not have predicted that.
writing blood students
I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood.
writing curiosity way
I write as a way of keeping myself going. You build your life around writing, and it's what gets you through. So it's partly just curiosity to see what you can do.
writing language kind
The Language Poets are writing only about language itself. The Ashbery poets are writing only about poetry itself. That seems to me a kind of dead end.
writing simple thinking
I think people who create and write, it actually does flow-just flows from into their head, into their hand, and they write it down. It's simple. Paul McCartney
writing heart passion
The mission of the playwright ... is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play. Robert Anderson
writing whales stories
You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes. Orson Scott Card
writing past ideas
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.
writing concentration listening-to-music
I listen to music constantly while writing.
writing house acting
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
writing dark age
A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age. Ram Dass
writing ends
Start [writing] as close to the end as possible. Kurt Vonnegut
writing want wells
What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.
writing thinking typewriters
Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide whether we can afford to write down this or that. I myself once staged the end of the world on two pieces of paper- at a cost of ...less than a penny, including wear and tear on my typewriter ribbon and the seat of my pants. 'Think of that.
writing citizenship good-citizenship
I consider writing an act of good citizenship.
writing people stupidity
This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to edit themselves into something like intelligence. They also allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.
writing opportunity palm-sunday
I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.
writing symphony waiting
I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.
writing eye purpose
There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? Trout plundered his pockets for a pen or pencil. He had an answer to the question. But he had nothing to write with, not even a burnt match. So he left the question unanswered, but here is what he would have written, if he had found anything to write with: To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.
writing depressive
I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.
writing dancer competition
Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too....
writing people dumb
I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.
writing matter way
Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns
writing fiction each-day
The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.
writing style
You develop a style from writing a lot.