Quotes about writ
writing thinking waiting
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside. Barry Mann
writing empowering trying
Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing. B. D. Wong
writing should-have clubs
I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today. Bill Shankly
writing stories moral
The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story. C. S. Lewis
writing description delightful
Don't say it was "delightful"; make us say "delightful" when we've read the description.
writing connections kind
I'm kind of a hermit - it's almost easier for me to write about connection than to actually connect. Carrie Brownstein
writing people playing-music
I've mostly been focusing on writing, and I've really enjoyed not playing music. It will always be part of my life, but I don't feel the immediate need to be playing for people.
writing trying may
Now I say I'm a diarist with an explanation I'll get back to you on. Someday I may try and write in memoir form. Carrie Fisher
writing humor improvisation
Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience. Carl Reiner
writing enjoy communicate
I enjoy writing. I enjoy communicating and connecting. Bethenny Frankel
writing cold ifs
If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us. Antonia Fraser
writing self expression
There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression. H. P. Lovecraft
writing challenges wake-up
For me, the challenge is just making great albums, because talent - and writing in general - is not tangible. There's no expiration date on it. At the same time, you might wake up tomorrow and be unable to write music. Jay-Z
writing men why-not
Shakespeare was a man who wrote poetry. I'm a man who writes poetry. Why not compare yourself to the best?
writing kind found
I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable. Carlisle Floyd
writing leopards use
Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard. James Dickey
writing thinking people
[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people. James Ellroy
writing rabbits accidents
We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits. - Joe Morelli Janet Evanovich
writing israel roles
In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets. Etgar Keret
writing thinking stories
I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
writing too-much good-business
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. Irvin S. Cobb
writing thinking people
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters. William Shenstone
writing years ideas
I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race. William Saroyan
writing mind next
When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while. Richard Russo
writing people want
Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.' Robin Hobb
writing sitting littles
Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.
writing small-villages letters
It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write.... Walter Benjamin
writing night people
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel. W. H. Auden
writing doctors mind
When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind. Robert Louis Stevenson
writing thinking design
I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It's sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting. Wes Anderson
writing process found
A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things. William Stafford
writing age neurosis
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. William Styron
writing thinking hands
I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragraph—each sentence, even—as I go along.