Quotes about writ
writing numbers people
The living together is very important in a way. It's important for writing. It wouldn't be important if we were like just getting other people's numbers together, we'd just have to meet at rehearsals, but writing is something almost completely different. Steve Winwood
writing years kind
The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.
writing past interesting
My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar. Steve Vai
writing interesting people
Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are. Veronica Roth
writing world grew
I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing pretend, I started to write everything down instead.
writing focus wake-up
I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes. Vince Staples
writing hands guy
I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer. Vince Vaughn
writing people needs
I need to meet people to be able to write. Vikas Swarup
writing giving way
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
writing imagination creative
I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.
writing boredom stronger
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything. Vikram Seth
writing imagine novel
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
writing thinking trivia
It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
writing years cases
I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
writing listening-to-music bother
I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
writing
Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone. Rebecca Solnit
writing elements narrative
Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.
writing imagination might
To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route. To read is to travel through that terrain with the author as a guide-- a guide one might not always agree with or trust, but who can at least be counted on to take one somewhere.
writing black-and-white shade
There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.
writing bankers rich
A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money in poetry, there was certainly no poetry in money, and so it was all even. Robert Graves
writing talking ideas
Never use the word 'audience.' The very idea of a public, unless the poet is writing for money, seems wrong to me. Poets don't have an 'audience'. They're talking to a single person all the time.
writing rewriting good-writing
There is no such thing as good writing, only good rewriting.
writing waiting liberty
Wait until the world is free before you write a creed. In this creed there will be but one word -- Liberty. Robert Green Ingersoll
writing years names
There is no necessity for going to the church and hearing the same story forever. Let the minister write what he wishes to say. Let him publish it. If it is worth buying, people will read it. It is hardly fair to get them in a church in the name of duty and there inflict upon them a sermon that under no circumstances they would read...the idea of going fifty-two days in a year to hear anybody on the same subject is absurd.
writing history stories
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. Rudyard Kipling
writing people details
Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak. Rose Tremain
writing stuff firsts
Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.
writing understanding world
Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your understanding of the world and write about that.
writing trying short-story
[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in the middle that were like fables, and I loved hearing fables. Sandra Cisneros
writing heart thinking
I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.
writing giving people
I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving someone another person's prescription. How do you know that's what they need?
writing little-things intrigued
I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what I call buttons now, little vignettes.
writing fiction helping
Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.