Quotes about writing
writing robins your-future
Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb Robin Hobb
writing sitting littles
Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.
writing people tasks
By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content. Robert Motherwell
writing three
Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more. Robert Silverberg
writing genius may
We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart. Robert Schumann
writing fate hands
An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.
writing symphony impossible
My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.
writing paper laptops
I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop. Robert Smith
writing awkward doe
I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless it comes straight out, it is wrong, it is awkward, it does not fit. Robert Rankin
writing ideas rocks
I'd like to write a big rock anthem again. I just need to listen to Korn, and then I might get the idea of how to do it. Robert Plant
writing feels shows
I only like to write shows that I feel like no one has seen before. Robert Lopez
writing dull dies
History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes. Robert Lowell
writing learning winning
A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one. Robert M. Hutchins
writing college acting
When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios. Sasha Alexander
writing doctors stories
I don't know if you've ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it's a lot more difficult than it initially appears, especially if you've got more than one assistant. Sarah Sutton
writing doe fiction
I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research. Sarah Zettel
writing together telling-stories
As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.
writing moon race
I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.
writing mad trying
Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less conscious you will be of its devices. It's worth trying to figure those devices out, however: they might come in useful in your own work. Sarah Waters
writing i-can can-do
All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.
writing needs relief
Even writers need relief from words. Sarah Vowell
writing dedication memorial
I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.
writing heaven stranger
No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.
writing thinking very-romantic
It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live Sarah McLachlan
writing people singing
And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.
writing hard-times able
Things that I have a hard time being able to fully grasp, sometimes writing the poem helps me work through it. Or I get to the end of the poem and I still haven't figured anything out, but at least I have a new poem out of it. Sarah Kay
writing thinking always-trying
I write about love and family a lot, because I'm always trying to figure those things out. At different points in my life, just when I think I've finished writing about it, the dynamics shift, and then I have a whole new set of questions and worries and misunderstandings to wrestle with.
writing creativity people
For some reason there's this myth that creativity - [especially] in terms of creative writing - is a gift you either have, or you don't. So when people first start writing, if they write something that's not very good, or if they try and it's difficult, they go, "Oh, I guess I don't have it." That doesn't seem very fair, you have to try and you have to work at it. If we get scared of one bad poem and quit, that's not doing anybody any good.
writing figures
I write poems to figure things out
writing museums people
Hiroshima”, I find a few of the lines to be very poignant yet hopeful. These lines are: “But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying, hoping that one day I’ll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed
writing trying strategy
I write poetry to figure things out. Any time I'm trying to wrap my head around something, poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me.
writing thinking attention
Thinking about writing as an act of celebration is sometimes a helpful framework for me. It allows me to prioritize what I want to call attention to and what I want others to know about me. It makes me ask: What is worth celebrating?
writing love-is always-trying
I write poetry to figure things out. It's what I use as a navigating tool in my life, so when there's something that I just can't understand, I have to "poem" my way through it. For that reason I write a lot about family, because my family confuses me and I'm always trying to figure them out. I write a lot about love, because love is continually confusing in all of its many glorious aspects.