Quotes about writing
writing thinking feelings
It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience those four and a half hours after you write the final word. Zadie Smith
writing thinking opposites
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy.
writing want who-we-are
We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers do not write what they want, they write what they can.
writing might reason
The very reason I write is so that I might not sleepwalk through my entire life.
writing enemy trying
Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.
writing pages matter
Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.
writing avid waiting
I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see. Zosia Mamet
writing magic nobody-knows
Magic is older than writing. So nobody knows how it started. Zora Neale Hurston
writing science curiosity
Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.
writing space people
Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.
writing looks architecture
Architecture is like writing. You have to edit it over and over so it looks effortless Zaha Hadid
writing pages way
I write in a pretty straightforward way. I kind of sit down at page one and start writing. Zack Snyder
writing land people
I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony. Zach Galifianakis
writing night trying
I try to write three jokes every day. I don't sit down and write them, it's just things that pop into my head. Then I'll go watch it fail onstage that night.
writing long goal
When I do stand-up for a long time, I'll get burned out, then I'll get an acting gig. For me, the grass is always greener. I'd like to do a mixture of all of it. My goal is just to do small movies that I've written. That's what I'm trying to do now, just write smaller movies.
writing focus groups
You write things that are of interest to you. There's no focus group.
writing granted relevant
We [with Neal Dodson and Corey Moosa] spent a lot of time writing, for lack of a better word, this manifesto about what we wanted to do. We wanted to find work that was relevant socially and that didn't take audiences for granted. Zachary Quinto
writing names guy
I don't want to name any names, but I've worked on television shows where there's a guy writing for my generation who's, like, 60 - and it doesn't work. Zachary Knighton
writing reality matter
Let us remember that the central reality must be sought in the writer's work: it is what the writer chose to write, or was compelled to write, that finally matters. And certainly Mishima's carefully premeditated death is part of his work. Yukio Mishima
writing one-line way
i still have no way to survive but to keep writing one line, one more line, one more line...
writing expression years
All my life I have been acutely aware of a contradiction in the very nature of my existence. For forty-five years I struggled to resolve this dilemma by writing plays and novels. The more I wrote, the more I realized mere words were not enough. So I found another form of expression.
writing mixtapes opinion
In my opinion, one of the biggest drawbacks about Sergio Leone films are the scores composed by Ennio Morricone. If [Leone] were as talented as I am, he would have made mixtapes for his movies instead of letting some schmuck write the soundtracks for him. But then if he were as talented as I am, he'd be Zach Braff. And have his own Grammy. Zach Braff
writing knows know-how
I love my work but do not know how I write it. Zane Grey
writing blood sweat
Writing was like digging coal. I sweat blood. The spell is on me.
writing records spells
I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record.
writing motion-pictures distracted
This motion-picture muddle had distracted me from my writing.
writing expression my-own-life
What is writing but an expression of my own life?
writing night silence
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
writing biographies too-late
Somebody approached me about writing a biography on me, I told them they were too late.
writing color lines
Color is enslaved by line, that becomes writing. Yves Klein
writing years way
It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had been systematically writing around it. Yusef Komunyakaa
writing white space
Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space. I feel writers are like reservoirs of images. We take in what is around us.
writing used-to-love used
I used to love writing in my journal. Tyra Banks