Quotes about writ
writing thinking littles
I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do naturally well. How I write naturally is probably what's furthest from me, and the most removed from what I understand. Ryan Adams
writing thinking play
It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper and write down what I think is coming to me. And I'll play it once. Whether it's being recorded or not, I can then usually remember it for a sometimes shocking amount of time.
writing ideas phrases
There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.
writing passion wanted
Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be. Ruth Park
writing character prejudice
When I start writing novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry, rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters. Ruth Ozeki
writing up-early irritation
When Im writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.
writing sight mind
Every piece of writing starts from what I call a grit a sight or sound, a sentence or happening that does not pass away but quite inexplicably lodges in the mind. Rumer Godden
writing people musical
I should write a musical. That is probably one of the final areas that I should pay attention to, because it does kind of involve everything. It's got theatre, it's got young, pretty people... And it's got money! Rufus Wainwright
writing creating want
I am always writing; if you want to survive in this business, you need to keep working, keep creating and never stop the output.
writing artist hip-hop
A lot of the hip hop artists don't write music. They write words. Roy Ayers
writing world fiction
I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing. Roxane Gay
writing years four
I've always wanted to be a writer. I've been writing since I was probably four years old - it was nonsense, but it was still my little attempts at being a storyteller.
writing salvation solace
Writing, at its best and truest, can offer solace and salvation for both readers and writers.
writing brave trying
I wrote myself back together. I wrote myself toward a stronger version of myself . . . Through writing and feminism, I also found that if I was a little bit brave, another woman might hear me and see me and recognize that none of us are the nothing the world tries to tell us we are.
writing looks and-love
Just write and love what you're writing. And if you're not loving what you're writing, take a look at why and fix that.
writing reform care
[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism. Ronald Reagan
writing keyboards messages
Imagine you are writing an email. You are in front of the computer. You are operating the computer, clicking a mouse and typing on a keyboard, but the message will be sent to a human over the internet. So you are working before the computer, but with a human behind the computer. Yukihiro Matsumoto
writing men drawing
Man is driven to create; I know I really love to create things. And while I'm not good at painting, drawing, or music, I can write software.
writing feet people
If some of the people who write about mojo came with me for a week, they would drop dead on their feet. William Hague
writing piano things-i-love
I gave up lots of things I love doing: writing, and business, and playing the piano and so on.
writing long stage
Writers love to write those idiotic, long stage directions, and some of them worse than others. They have nothing to do with the movie. They're just jerking around. William H. Macy
writing
I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.
writing thinking doors
I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing.
writing pedants faults
To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant. William Hazlitt
writing mean passion
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have, and of which we cannot get rid in any other way, that gives an instant "satisfaction to the thought." This is equally the origin of wit and fancy, of comedy and tragedy, of the sublime and pathetic.
writing men thinking
Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.
writing choices style
To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.
writing simplicity style
Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.
writing men
The more a man writes, the more he can write.
writing important charity
Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater. William E. Simon
writing people stories
I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines. William Devane
writing giving fiction
It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good material if life hasn't been peachy (and not a whole lot if it has). Wendelin Van Draanen
writing use literature
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers. Wendell Phillips