Quotes about writing
writing thinking ideas
People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life. Henri Nouwen
writing journey space
The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know.
writing community solitude
Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.
writing thinking trying
I want the plot to be as complicated as possible. Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it makes sense. I don't think out the plot ahead of time. Heidi Julavits
writing fake challenges
As such, anything is always possible, even if your protagonist is a plumber. But it's the possibility, the limitless possibilities, of any fake life, that make writing about it so challenging.
writing psychics creative-space
Whether I'm writing about plumbers or psychics or psychic plumbers, I want to find a creative space that imprisons me usefully, so I can deviate with purpose.
writing different way
A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these different steps and tautologies. I approach novel writing that way. When I get to the end I have to go back and connect everything.
writing curiosity three
I wont deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to concentrate on one thing for a period of longer than three minutes. My curiosity is channeled inward rather than Internet-ward.
writing technology found-you
The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you. Hoagy Carmichael
writing hands silent
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand. Herta Muller
writing looks doe
Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.
writing hands knives
I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right. Heston Blumenthal
writing needs actresses
I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract. Hermione Gingold
writing math favorite-subject
My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time. Herschel Walker
writing winning sweat
Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning. Hesiod
writing editing balance
It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write. Henry R. Luce
writing men balance
There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.
writing eight people
I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in. Henry Rollins
writing thinking thousand
I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words.
writing waiting silence
Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul, waiting for true words to come. When they do, you thank God because you know the words are a gift, and you write them down as honestly and cleanly as you can. Helen Prejean
writing play giving
It's true that writing can give new forms to concepts that existed previously with far less clarity, but in terms of the other half of a story's story - the way a story is received and interpreted and used - the audience plays a part in that too. Helen Oyeyemi
writing style trying
I dont have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.
writing choices stories
You write your life story by the choices you make, Helen Mirren
writing fighting ideas
You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not. Heinrich Heine
writing paper pencils
Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper.
writing heart mass
If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.
writing dark animal
Wild, dark times are rumbling toward us, and the prophet who wishes to write a new apocalypse will have to invent entirely new beasts, and beasts so terrible that the ancient animal symbols of St. John will seem like cooing doves and cupids in comparison.
writing acting wanted
Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing. Heather Donahue
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 thinking mathematical-logic
I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es! Hilary Putnam
writing pals paper
I like to write paper mail - nobody does that anymore - with my pen pals. Hilarie Burton
writing albums want
I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy. Hilary Duff
writing historical-novels years
Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels because I can't do plots.'' But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things. Hilary Mantel