Quotes about writing
writing people rooms
I usually write for the individual reader -though I would like to have many such readers. There are some poets who write for people assembled in big rooms, so they can live through something collectively. I prefer my reader to take my poem and have a one-on-one relationship with it. Wislawa Szymborska
writing writing-poems absurdity
I prefer the absurdity of writing poems to the absurdity of not writing poems.
writing guts
All I knew was that I was writing something out of my very guts, and that I was content. Winston Graham
writing men forgiving
Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose. Winston Churchill
writing tyrants mistress
Writing ... it begins as an amusement, then it becomes a mistress, then a master, and finally a tyrant.
writing historical firsts
To secure your historical standing, be sure you are the first to write about it.
writing people inarticulate
People like me write because otherwise we are pretty inarticulate. Our articulation is our writing. William Trevor
writing
I read hungrily and delightedly, and have realized since that you can’t write unless you read.
writing people needs
I get melancholy if I don't [write]. I need the company of people who don't exist.
writing opportunity fake
The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant. Will Shetterly
writing bad-writing firsts
It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.
writing principles throwing
There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away.
writing creativity academia
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because of various problems with the authorities I wasn't able to pull that one off. A lifetime of idleness in academia would have really suited me. So I was thrown out, as it were. Other than that, there seemed no possible idle occupations, so writing . . . although writing isn't exactly idleness. There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor. Will Self
writing thinking people
The seventies were my fattest decade. Overall I think the seventies were distinctly bulbous. People looked chunky, typefaces were rounded, writing implements penile.
writing waking firsts
I prefer to write first drafts as soon as possible after waking, so that the oneiric inscape is still present to me.
writing driven feels
I write because I feel driven to write. I write from a sense of inner necessity. I don't write for anything other than that.
writing trying islam
I write as someone who has no more time for repressive Islam than he does for repressive Christianity or Judaism, but at least look at the face in the hijab - and try to imagine the one beneath the niqab - before you depersonalise its wearer.
writing fiction remember
I always wanted to write fiction. Always. As far back as I can remember it's been integral to my sense of myself - everything else was always a displacement activity.
writing dark landscape
As for critical writing about modernism, its moments of lucidity are but fulgurations illuminating the dark and incomprehensible landscape of its subject's unabashed difficulty.
writing views play
In my view, the plangent artificiality of a lot of creative work results from the fact that the people who write novels, direct films and put on plays tend to read too many novels, watch too many films and go to too many plays.
writing views might
I'm very happy for whatever plaudits might come the way of my work, but I never ever sit down to write x with y in view - whether it's a reader, a prize or a sale.
writing life-is solitary
The writing life is essentially one of solitary confinement - if you can't deal with this, you needn't apply.
writing thinking building-things
I think of writing as a sculptural medium. You are not building things. You are removing things, chipping away at language to reveal a living form.
writing people woods
In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing. Will Rogers
writing old-friends ems
I love words but I don't like strange ones. You don't understand them and they don't understand you. Old words is like old friends, you know 'em the minute you see 'em.
writing trying modern-life
Everytime a lawyer writes something, he is not writing for posterity, he is writing something so that endless others of his craft can make a living out of trying to figure out what he said. Course perhaps he really haden't said anything, that's what makes it so hard to explain.
writing trying want
It's weird to try to write lyrics for somebody else. They can't really get behind what you're saying or what you want them to say because they didn't experience it. Wes Borland
writing awkward want
Then little writings and recordings that thankfully continue to come up. I'm in this kind of wonderful, kind of awkward, off-putting, and strange position where there's nothing I want to do more than continue to make music, but the ways that I do things are not in tune with how I can do them commercially. Will Oldham
writing differences people
My pictures are complex and so am I. When I am almost symbolistic in writing, there is a more limiting difference’s of accepting, while I can be even more complex in the photographs and people can usually accept them within the framework of their own limitations or lack of limitations – there is no dictionary meaning… they can look up for the photographic image and allow it to confuse them. W. Eugene Smith
writing
I didn’t write the rules. Why would I follow them?
writing adversity goal
All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. the first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is. If you're not clear about this, then write it down, and rewrite it until the words express precisely what you are after. Every disadvantage has an equivalent advantage - if you'll take the trouble to find it. Learn to do that and you'll kick the stuffing out of adversity every time. W. Clement Stone
writing scripts found
I write my scripts short and they develop on the set, which I have found a far better premise both economically and practically. W. C. Fields
writing thinking essentials
[Final diary entry:] Occupation is essential. And now with some pleasure I find that it's seven; and must cook dinner. Haddock and sausage meat. I think it is true that one gains a certain hold on sausage and haddock by writing them down. Virginia Woolf