Quotes about writing
writing men history
A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists. Bertrand Russell
writing men blood
To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
writing precise
Writing can be either readable or precise, but not at the same time.
writing thinking careers
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career. Bernard Cornwell
writing occupation solitary
Writing is a solitary occupation.
writing wind sometimes
Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true. Chad Kroeger
writing thinking down-and
Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it. Cecily von Ziegesar
writing trying care
I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care. Cass McCombs
writing musician folk-music
I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.
writing trying performing
I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.
writing giving people
I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.
writing feelings mind
Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
writing thinking expression
What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music? Charles Mingus
writing men style
Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus.
writing dark night
It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration. Charles M. Schulz
writing term-paper breakfast
You can't write a term paper before breakfast.
writing names irs
Dear IRS, I am writing to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list.
writing ears sissy
I don't write music for sissy ears. Charles Ives
writing fire playing-with-fire
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire. Billy Wilder
writing cameras twenties
Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
writing may climate
The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess. Bill McKibben
writing narcissism excited
Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism. Bill Ayers
writing lectures silent
I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.
writing authority
I write because I have authority from life to do so. Bessie Head
writing screens
I love writing for the screen. Beth Henley
writing mind singing
For the most part I write very stream of consciousness. I basically need to be recording an entire writing session because it's almost like I black out and just start singing whatever is on my mind and forget it as soon as I stop. Beth Moore
writing play people
When I first started writing, a friend said I should be careful because I'm letting people know how to reach right in and play with my workings. And they do! Beth Orton
writing taught scratches
I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my own writing process, in the sense that it's incredably personal to write with someone else from scratch.
writing
You don't have to say everything to say something.
writing sitting down-and
You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter. Bernard Malamud
writing important about-yourself
The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.
writing ifs
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
writing ideas reform
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.