Quotes about writ
writing stories ireland
I would love to write the story of my upbringing in Ireland. Fiona Shaw
writing stories dinner
I used to love to make things - you couldn't drag me away for dinner because I was always writing a story or something. Fiona Apple
writing knows
I'm here because of what I write. Obviously, I must know something
writing piano want
I only write when I'm angry or sad, so because that's when I just have to write... If I'm having a good time and I'm happy and things are going really well, why would I want to stop what I'm doing to go and write at the piano?
writing race self
The act of writing for the slave constituted the act of creating a public, historical self, not only the self of the individual author but also the self, as it were, of the race. Henry Louis Gates
writing civilization class
Very few Black people ever embraced back to Africa movements, and very few actually, a tiny number actually went back to Africa. They said, "We are going to make America live up to the ideals of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States." They produced one of the world's great cultures; they produced individuals who were just as brilliant and made contributions to the world civilization. In fact, they produced a world-class civilization, the African American civilization, in music, in dance, in oratory, in religion, in writing.
writing adventure discovery
Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial view of the universe. The writer lives between the upper and lower worlds: he takes the path in order eventually to become the path himself. Henry Miller
writing poison may
The more I wrote, the more I became a human being. The writing may have seemed monstrous (to some) for it was a violation, but I became a more human individual because of it. I was getting the poison out of my system.
writing discovery voyages
Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery.
writing helping god-help-me
I struggled in the beginning. I said I was going to write the truth, so help me God. And I thought I was. I found I couldn't. Nobody can write the absolute truth.
writing typewriters talking
After all, most writing is done away from the typewriter, away from the desk. I'd say it occurs in the quiet, silent moments, while you're walking or shaving or playing a game, or whatever, or even talking to someone you're not vitally interested in.
writing men artist
What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.
writing men paper
No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
writing finished one-thing
Work on one thing at a time until finished.
writing acceptance understanding
Understanding is not a piercing of the mystery, but an acceptance of it, a living blissfully with it, in it, through and by it.
writing thinking self
You must be life for me to the very end," so he writes. "That is the only way in which to sustain my idea of you. Because you have gotten, as you see, tied up with something so vital to me, I do not think I shall ever shake you off. Nor do I wish to. I want you to live more vitally every day, as I am dead. That is why, when I speak of you to others, I am just a bit ashamed. It's hard to talk of one's self so intimately
writing water literature
It does me good to write a letter which is not a response to a demand, a gratuitous letter, so to speak, which has accumulated in me like the waters of a reservoir.
writing voice millions
You have to write a million words before you find your voice as a writer.
writing
When you can't create you can work
writing lines action
I have made a silent compact with myself not to change a line of what I write. I am not interested in perfecting my thoughts, nor my actions.
writing artist america
America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed hog enjoys a better life than a creative writer, painter or musician. To be a rabbit is better still.
writing rewards
Writing is its own reward.
writing trying viruses
He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.
writing men trying
A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would set a word down on paper if he had the courage to live out what he believed in.
writing night sky
It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music Henning Mankell
writing agony knows
One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.
writing mirrors greek
I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society.
writing kind story-of-my-life
It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life. Helen Keller
writing space work-out
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.
writing thinking soul
If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.
writing today
There will never be another now - I'll make the most of today. There will never be another me - I'll make the most of myself.
writing hands discovery
I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.
writing character people
Helen Lowe writes wonderful stories, yes, but her work also speaks with lyricism to deeper questions of how we treat each other. With lovely prose that brings vivid life to her characters, she creates a universe with people we care about. This is an author with a gift for fantasy. Catherine Asaro