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writing years facts
Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years. Gerry Mulligan
writing choices kind
[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice. Ivy Compton-Burnett
writing immensity
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible Italo Calvino
writing play reason-why
Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing Irwin Shaw
writing details prose
Details are the Life of Prose. Jack Kerouac
writing be-kind kind
Rest and be kind, you don't have to prove anything
writing mind want
Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind,
writing night giving
Genius gives birth, talent delivers. What Rembrandt or Van Gogh saw in the night can never be seen again. Born writers of the future are amazed already at what they're seeing now, what we'll all see in time for the first time, and then see imitated many times by made writers.
writing form feels
Something that you feel will find its own form.
writing men down-and
Man, wow, there's so many things to do, so many things to write! How to even begin to get it all down and without modified restraints and all hung-up on like literary inhibitions and grammatical fears...
writing way inspiration-to-write
It ain't whatcha write, it's the way atcha write it.
writing giving genius
Genius gives birth, talent delivers.
writing years play
I played upright bass. I wanted to write great tunes, play the bass, be a band leader, and smoke a big funny pipe like Charlie Mingus. So I went out and bought the pipe when I was around 18 or 19 years old. You know even women smoke a pipe in Glasgow. I worked with Carla Bley and she smoked a pipe, which I find fascinating. Jack Bruce
writing rocks track
I listen to a lot of different kinds of music and rather than just doing one thing when I make an album, the challenge to myself is to write all these diverse tracks, but to make them work. It's like a jigsaw because if you've got a lyrical track going into a hard rock track... it's got to work. You've got to write things that will work together.
writing inspire relate
You can't write if you can't relate. Beck
writing eight years
Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
writing spots studios
I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
writing pulse said
The subject’s pulse increased on contact,” he said. “Don’t write that. Becca Fitzpatrick
writing guy stuff
If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music.
writing thinking insanity
I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner. Barry Mann
writing thinking waiting
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
writing creating mad
You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
writing stale
You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
writing advice together
If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work you set for yourself. That done, be the untutored traveler, the eager reader, the enthusiastic listener. Put what you learn together carefully, and then write thoughtfully, with respect both for the reader and your sources. Barry Lopez
writing looks stories
The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It's not that I'm not interested-it's not where I live. I live inside the story.
writing empowering trying
Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing. B. D. Wong
writing laughing people
The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh. B. J. Novak
writing golf swings
Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing. Bill Simmons
writing should-have clubs
I have been received more warmly by Everton than I have by Liverpool. It is scandalous that I should have to write these things about the club that I helped build into what it is today. Bill Shankly
writing pieces finished
No piece of writing is ever finished. It’s just due. Bill Condon
writing decision gone
I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves. Bijou Phillips
writing exotic agendas
[On her writing agenda:] Make the familiar exotic; the exotic familiar. Bharati Mukherjee
writing stories moral
The story itself should force its moral upon you. You find out what the moral is by writing the story. C. S. Lewis