Quotes about writing
writing grandmother florida
Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. Gabrielle Zevin
writing people perfect
The most important thing in writing process is the vibe cause if you on a roll, if you feel it you just feel it. And it's all about the atmosphere, the people around you, you know, everything. You got to be clear headed in that and have a perfect atmosphere. French Montana
writing night keys
A secretary is not a thing Wound by key, pulled by string. Her pad is to write in, And not spend the night in, If that's what you plan to enjoy. Frank Loesser
writing performing
I'm more interested in writing than in performing. Frank McCourt
writing kissing epic
whether they'll write the story of my life as a tragedy or an epic fantasy... I was wondering if it was going to be a kiss at the end, or sad music and a sweeping camera shot over the fields I once roamed freely. I'm hoping for the kiss, but expecting the sweeping camera shot. Maggie Stiefvater
writing people belief
I would like to say that I was inspired to write 'Shiver' by some overwhelming belief in true love, but here's my true confession: I wrote 'Shiver' because I like to make people cry.
writing like-you ends
In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
writing psychology actors
If I wasn't an actor, I would probably be writing or doing something with psychology. Maddie Hasson
writing studios
I write in the studio. Macy Gray
writing thinking film
I think I would have a better time writing films rather than directing. Mackenzie Astin
writing thinking artist
I put myself in the place of the listener when editing my writing. The last thing that I want to do is be preached at and told who to be or what to think when listening to an artist. However, I do want to be inspired. There's a fine line. Macklemore
writing guitar play
I write to the beat and let life play the guitar strings
writing would-be genius
Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all. Madame de Stael
writing unique play
Each play I write has its own unique origin story. Lynn Nottage
writing needs release
I need a release from whatever I'm writing.
writing two long
I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags. Haruki Murakami
writing play two
When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might be Western; I don't draw a distinction between the two.
writing stories links
Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts of myths. Myths are like a reservoir containing every story there is.
writing imagination lows
Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like.
writing trying world
Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps is not just pointless, but quite risky, too. What I see myself doing, rather, is writing novels where, in my own way, I dismantle the fictional world of Kafka that itself dismantled the existing novelistic system.
writing thinking novel
I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.
writing novel seems
I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.
writing pages next
I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?"
writing sheep significance
If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.
writing thinking america
Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.
writing simple style
It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.
writing thinking political
George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.
writing clubs had-enough
I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.
writing twelve lifetime
A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
writing bored people
You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.
writing type my-thoughts
Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in writing.
writing two style
Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.
writing shoes feet
You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.