Quotes about writing
writing proud way
I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it! Arnold Schoenberg
writing bedtime prison
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing. Antonia Fraser
writing self-confidence maine
Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.
writing ideas tomorrow
I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.
writing thinking order
I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
writing long stories
Right now in American writing there is no genre as exciting as memoir - the writer can do anything, as long as it works. It's like the 1920s up in this joint. So, I'd say, experiment with how you tell the story. In the best memoir it's not the what, it's how the writer tells the what - meaning and effect through form. Anthony Swofford
writing men creative
If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of mind he is seeking to avoid is no more than a mild state of depression or apathy, this still constitutes a cogent reason for engaging in creative work even when it brings no obvious external benefit in its train. Anthony Storr
writing player two
I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't. And clearly the ones who wrote music were more superior human beings in his mind. So he kind of nudged me and sort of prodded me into it. I picked it up slowly. Then I learned more about chords and harmony and I just kept adding to that. One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way. Bill Bruford
writing piano pieces
Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.
writing program
I write my programs primarily for myself. Bill Budge
writing hands track
You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.
writing sick laughing
The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian. Bill Burr
writing paid
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible. Bertrand Russell
writing thinking dying
I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. Petrarch
writing hands mind
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.
writing desire praying
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
writing night house
Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night. William Shakespeare
writing inspire relate
You can't write if you can't relate. Beck
writing eight years
Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
writing spots studios
I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
writing pulse said
The subject’s pulse increased on contact,” he said. “Don’t write that. Becca Fitzpatrick
writing guy stuff
If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music.
writing brave firsts
You have to be very brave in that first writing session. Barry Mann
writing thinking insanity
I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
writing thinking waiting
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
writing creating mad
You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
writing stale
You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
writing advice together
If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work you set for yourself. That done, be the untutored traveler, the eager reader, the enthusiastic listener. Put what you learn together carefully, and then write thoughtfully, with respect both for the reader and your sources. Barry Lopez
writing looks stories
The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It's not that I'm not interested-it's not where I live. I live inside the story.
writing empowering trying
Writing is an incredibly creatively empowering experience for me. It is the place where nobody tries to control what I'm doing. B. D. Wong
writing laughing people
The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh. B. J. Novak
writing character prejudice
It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives. Katherine Paterson
writing world fiction
The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer.