Quotes about writ
writing needs amelie
I need to be very hungry all the time. I need to be very hungry to write. Amelie Nothomb
writing views amelie
It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me.
writing rocks
Most writers can write, most rock 'n rollers cannot. Andrew Eldritch
writing stories love-story
I always do like to write love stories, even if they end tragically. Andrew Davies
writing editors light
LUMINARY, One who throws light upon a subject; as an editor by not writing about it. Ambrose Bierce
writing bird feelings
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These [quills] when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling.
writing nonsense
A malefactor who atones for making your writing nonsense by permitting the compositor to make it unintelligible.
writing character science
GOOSE, n. A bird that supplies quills for writing. These, by some occult process of nature, are penetrated and suffused with various degrees of the bird's intellectual energies and emotional character, so that when inked and drawn mechanically across paper by a person called an "author," there results a very fair and accurate transcript of the fowl's thought and feeling. The difference in geese, as discovered by this ingenious method, is considerable: many are found to have only trivial and insignificant powers, but some are seen to be very great geese indeed.
writing views
Scribbler, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.
writing thinking people
A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.
writing genius aim
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible. Anthony Hope
writing promise vivid
Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who are more famous. His capacities are solidly established; his promise is nearly infinite. Anthony Hecht
writing years literature
As somebody who's been writing about this subject for getting on twenty years now, it's astonishing how the climate has changed in the last five years. Anthony Holden
writing thinking worry
He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.
writing different different-things
I love writing different things. Anthony Horowitz
writing creating world
I'm not very good at creating worlds. I prefer to write about the world as it is.
writing magic spy
Writing about magic is harder than writing about spies because you're dealing with something that doesn't really exist.
writing writing-music composing
I'm composing and writing music. Anthony Hopkins
writing play backgrounds
I play music - I write my own music, but I play music, just background music really, and just let it happen.
writing painting academic
I have no education, I have no academic background in painting or in music, but I write music and I compose music and I write and I sell paintings, and my rule is, well, they can't arrest me.
writing skills talent
I'm not unfamiliar with music, and I really do write music. I've gotten a talent for it. I don't have the technical skills, but I do plan to learn.
writing play piano
I wanted to be a musician. I just wanted to be famous because I wanted to escape from what I felt was my limitation in life. I wanted to write music and I didn't know what I was doing and I never had the technique or the understanding of it. But I've always played the piano, and I can improvise on the piano. The problem is that I can't write down what I play. I can read music but I can't write it down.
writing long together
When we get together to rehearse, we could write music together all day long - GOOD music. Anthony Kiedis
writing mind substance
Writing music always happened for me in periods when I wasn't under the influence of mind-altering substance.
writing
You can't live and write at the same time. Alison Bechdel
writing drawing wish
Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated.
writing drawing reason
For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
writing long feelings
I've always expressed myself best through writing. I've gotten out all of my deepest feelings that way for as long as I can remember. Alicia Keys
writing spirit focused
Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel.
writing blood people
What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons they write, the exquisitely frustrating restrictions of their autonomy and the fact that no one listens to their cries, are all the reasons that mentally ill people, and even many normal people write. We write to escape our prisons. Alice Weaver Flaherty
writing men color
How could poetry and literature have arisen from something as plebian as the cuneiform equivalent of grocery-store bar codes? I prefer the version in which Prometheus brought writing to man from the gods. But then I remind myself that...we should not be too fastidious about where great ideas come from. Ultimately, they all come from a wrinkled organ that at its healthiest has the color and consistency of toothpaste, and in the end only withers and dies.
writing voice plot
Well, it's my voice, so it's more accessible that way, and there are also all sorts of things like plot and timelines that are already known entities, so for me, it's very different from writing fiction. Alice Sebold
writing poet novel
I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself to be fundamentally a poet who got into writing novels. Alice Walker