Quotes about writ
writing europe culture
I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture. Taslima Nasrin
writing gigs projects
Every time I'm not on a project, I'm writing or in the studio or doing gigs DJing. Taryn Manning
writing thinking albums
I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music. Taylor Swift
writing hotel
I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
writing goal people
One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.
writing kids men
I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in my head and I was replaying those rhymes and try to think of my own. In English, the only thing I wanted to do was poetry and all the other kids were like, "Oh, man. We have to write poems again?" and I would have a three-page long poem. I won a national poetry contest when I was in fourth grade for a poem called "Monster In My Closet.
writing artist being-an-artist
The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love.
writing together happened
Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.
writing water oath
I write a woman's oaths in water. Sophocles
writing income firsts
I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed. Steve Toltz
writing world fantasy
The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down. Stephen Malkmus
writing very-good
Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good. Stephen King
writing way lifeless
Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.
writing language enough
I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.
writing thought-provoking thesaurus
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
writing acting three
Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous. Sophie Marceau
writing concerts old-fashioned
When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert. Sondre Lerche
writing assessment world
What we know of the world comes to us through words, or, to look at it from the other direction, when we write a sentence, we create a world, which is not the world, but the world as is appears within a dimension of assessment. Stanley Fish
writing fighting world
Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container. I like work that gets out in the world and lets the world shape the poem. Stephen Vincent Benet
writing men lifetime
I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it. Tammy Wynette
writing somewhere-else things-i-love
Im writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and Im very greedy, and I really enjoy it! Tanith Lee
writing feelings wish
I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
writing opinion comeback
If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.
writing scary stories
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?
writing people complexes
I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
writing way needs
I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there. Tana French
writing lucky feels
I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
writing weekend important
Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you. I was taught to write every day, but I know a writer (a bestseller at that!) who only writes on weekends. Tamora Pierce
writing thinking stories
I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
writing character animal
After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
writing pages matter
When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen. Taiye Selasi
writing heart mind
I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
writing play oxford
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.