Quotes about writ
writing names want
I will write on the pages of history what I want them to say. I will be myself. I will speak my own name. Maya Angelou
writing get-over
You never get over the fear of writing.
writing people black
I write because I am a Black woman, listening attentively to her people.
writing who-i-am darkness
When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness.
writing hair mind
When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess.
writing imagination stories
Peter Rabbit, for all its gentle tininess, loudly proclaims that no story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it is not a work of imagination. Maurice Sendak
writing age extraordinary
I thought that if I were going into old age I would want to do what [Giuseppe] Verdi did, which is to write extraordinary things, and to really find myself.
writing together pieces
I've written quite a few things, but I've put it on hold for now to see how everything fits together. Then I'll approach it and write specifically to see how the pieces fit in the puzzle. Matt Sharp
writing secret famous-writers
Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret. Matthew Arnold
writing men two
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
writing people trying
I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, "Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive." Things should be better. Matt Taibbi
writing good-writing
Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it. Meg Wolitzer
writing imagination why-we-write
The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write. Meg Rosoff
writing dark self
Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.
writing years fiction
I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction. Meg Cabot
writing illustration used
I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.
writing boys littles
Cal: “Could you write a little bigger? I’m not sure China saw that.” Every Boy's Got One
writing school college
In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.
writing culture feels
It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life. Maxine Hong Kingston
writing stories
I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.
writing firsts way
poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing. May Sarton
writing artist civilization
It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people's side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work.
writing serious muse
When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'
writing stories down-and
When the storyteller tells the truth, she reminds us that human beings are more alike than unalike... A story is what it's like to be a human being-to be knocked down and to miraculously arise. Each one of us has arisen, awakened. We do rise.
writing ideas mind
Ideas come when we do not expect them, and not when we are brooding and searching at our desks. Yet ideas would certainly not come to mind had we not brooded at our desks and searched for answers with passionate devotion. Max Weber
writing achievement pieces
Not everyone realises that to write a really good piece of journalism is at least as demanding intellectually as the achievement of any scholar.
writing emotional way
By its very looseness, by its way of evoking rather than defining, suggesting rather than saying, English is a magnificent vehicle for emotional poetry. Max Beerbohm
writing kind hypocritical
Every kind of writing is hypocritical.
writing zombie survival
I wrote 'The Zombie Survival Guide' because I wanted to read it, and nobody else was writing it. All I've been doing with everything I've written is answering questions that I had. Max Brooks
writing zombie stories
When I started writing, there was nothing about zombies. It was all teen movies, which to me are scarier than zombies, but that's another story.
writing night people
If I knew anything about what people wanted and was popular, I'd still be writing for 'Saturday Night Live'. I can only write what I want, and hopefully people will like it.
writing littles kind
I began to write a kind of waltz and in a little more than an hour I had the theme written. Maurice Jarre
writing quality ravel
To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel. Maurice Ravel