Quotes about writing
writing play written
I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me. Holland Taylor
writing occupation consuming
Writing is a creatively rewarding occupation but for me very time consuming. Holly Johnson
writing littles biographies
I feel I have to live a little longer before I write a sequel to my auto biography which covers my experiences up until October 1991.
writing
You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more. Holly Black
writing eye voice
The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them. Hermann Ebbinghaus
writing challenges artistic
I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge. Herman Wouk
writing pages add
Write a page a day. It will add up.
writing boundaries connected
I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend ecclesial boundaries. Henri Nouwen
writing play journal
I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives. Heather O'Reilly
writing butterfly blood
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of blood-relationship of the species. As the laws of nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole world. Henry Walter Bates
writing men names
I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter. Henry Ward Beecher
writing long stories
Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story. Henry Cloud
writing love-is names
Other-Love is writing's first name. Helene Cixous
writing stranger bizarre
I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner. Helena Christensen
writing people hurtful
For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person from writing whatever they want. What's harmful and hurtful is when people speculate. John Krasinski
writing reflection self
Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret. Johann Sebastian Bach
writing age occupation
Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23. Johanna Lindsey
writing light manhattan
I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing. John Banville
writing simple more-time
If you don't have time to read, then you have more time to write. Simple as that. Stephen King
writing thinking political
I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. Diane Wakoski
writing down-and pages
The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page. David Almond
writing simple psychics
'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'. David Allen
writing trying together
With these Funny or Die videos, I do everything for them. I write them, act in them, and co-direct them with my buddy Brian McGinn, who I grew up with. We also edit them together. We're working on a small scale of Internet videos, but we're slowly trying to make them become a bigger thing. Dave Franco
writing love-is lawyer
I love being a lawyer more than I like writing. David Shapiro
writing editors editing
I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take them on tour, read them like a dozen times on tour, then go back to the room and rewrite, read and rewrite... I would never show him a first draft, because then he's really going to be sick of it by the twelfth draft. David Sedaris
writing watches glee
I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.
writing thinking people
When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.
writing giving people
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
writing thinking wells
To write is to think, and to write well is to think well, David McCullough
writing thinking suffering
The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.
writing love-is thinking
I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.
writing thinking play
You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
writing editing self
Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again. David Mitchell