Quotes about writ
writing thinking parting
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write. Erica Jong
writing each-day fragmented
Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
writing thinking expression
Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
writing past thinking
As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
writing diaries boring
I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.
writing glowing dust
I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
writing firsts should
You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
writing thinking way
When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
writing voice giving
You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
writing thinking who-i-am
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
writing silence despair
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
writing class feelings
There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
writing thinking political
The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
writing fiction males
It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
writing cynical truth-is
Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
writing ifs our-lives
we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
writing mind levels
Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.
writing years way
I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
writing listening important
If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
writing soil common
But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are we supposed to be psychiatrists? Isn't it enough to write and tell the truth? It's not like telling the truth is common. Writers are the earthworms of society. We aerate the soil. That's enough.
writing surrender
One writes not by will but by surrender.
writing magic enough
It's not enough to create magic. You have to create a price for magic, too. You have to create rules. Eric Burns
writing who-i-am comfortable
As far as writing, it's grown because I've really grown comfortable with who I am. Eric Church
writing kissing thinking
Eventually I would like to reach the stage where I don't have to write about love and kisses and all that stuff. I wish I could write about really ultimate things. That's where I think all of us want to go, really. All the groups seem to be heading towards a kind of pop music that deals with ultimate things. Eric Burdon
writing guy wish
I wish I could write easily. I'm one of those guys who's visited by the muse when things are dire. Eric Clapton
writing emotional moments
The writing of a melody is an emotional moment; success doesn't make it easy. Enya
writing bored choices
[Doing a bilingual album] helped artistically because whenever I got bored of writing in English, I would write in Spanish. It's always cool when you have the choice. Enrique Iglesias
writing
If life ever stops inspiring us to write, it's time to stop doing what we do. Emily Saliers
writing get-better pages
Write a page every single day, even if what you put on the page that day is no good - it's the only way to get better. Emma Forrest
writing keys talking
Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing. And you start talking yourself out of the bold melody and start wanting to arrange it in another key or something. Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me. Elvis Costello
writing singing sometimes
Sometimes I write notes that I have difficulty singing.
writing opportunity years
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.
writing hands personality
Really the only thing holding a lot of records together is the personality of the singer, and the will to write all of these different things.