Quotes about writing
writing thinking apples
I think it's important to also realize that this isn't a case of Apple being asked to simply flip a switch or, you know, plug in a wire from one place to another. They're being asked to write new software that doesn't exist. They purposefully did not create this kind of backdoor... Angus King
writing vision impulse
The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life. Angus Wilson
writing novelists harsh
The novelist must be his own most harsh critic and also his own most loving admirer and about both he must say nothing.
writing drawing stories
I am writing graffiti on your body. I am drawing the story of how hard we tried. Ani Difranco
writing keys people
People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well. Andy Hertzfeld
writing want hats
But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems. Andrew Motion
writing way poet
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
writing done way
I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.
writing two tea
I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.
writing trying moments
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.
writing who-i-am play
I consider myself a person like everyone else, and I take my time writing my records because I feel like it captures more of who I am. You have a much greater chance of hitting on themes and points...that could play into someone else's life in a larger way. Andrew McMahon
writing marketing culture
Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture. Andrew Mason
writing agony creating
I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done. Amy Lowell
writing poetry arriving
I never deny poems when they come; whatever I am doing, whatever I am writing, I lay it aside and attend to the arriving poem.
writing music-is purifying
Writing music is my therapy. It’s very purifying! Amy Lee
writing tables way
I write by myself initially. That's the way I've always written, just working on pure thought by myself. Then I bring it to the table with whoever I'm collaborating with.
writing dark epic
My darlings, if I can't write dark, epic music, I can't live!
writing heart singing
I'm singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.
writing tired mirrors
I have realized that mystery is what keeps people away, and I've grown tired of smoke and mirrors. I yearn for the clean, well-lighted place. So let's peek behind the curtain and hail the others like us. The open-faced sandwiches who take risks and live big and smile with all of their teeth. These are the people I want to be around. This is the honest way I want to live and love and write. Amy Poehler
writing brain tragedy
A person's tragedy does not make up their entire life. A story carves deep grooves into our brains each time we tell it. But we aren't one story. We can change our stories. We can write our own.
writing boring truth-is
The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not.
writing artist oklahoma
I am practical by nature, and I'd heard that being a writer or an artist is a good way to starve! So I was an economics major at Oklahoma State, and then received an M.S. from Cornell in Agricultural Resource and Managerial Economics. I knew if I wanted to write I would do it on my own, but I knew I wouldn't make myself study economics on my own. Ally Carter
writing doe psychologist
How does one happen to write a poem: where does it come from? That is the question asked by the psychologists or the geneticists of poetry. Allen Tate
writing men cities
I really would like to stop working forever–never work again, never do anything like the kind of work I’m doing now–and do nothing but write poetry and have leisure to spend the day outdoors and go to museums and see friends. And I’d like to keep living with someone — maybe even a man — and explore relationships that way. And cultivate my perceptions, cultivate the visionary thing in me. Just a literary and quiet city-hermit existence. Allen Ginsberg
writing down-and distinction
There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.
writing interesting people
The parts that embarrass you the most are usually the most interesting poetically, are usually the most naked of all, the rawest, the goofiest, the strangest and most eccentric and at the same time, most representative, most universal... That was something I earned from Kerouac, which was that spontaneous writing could be embarrassing... The cure for that is to write the thing down which you will not publish and which you won't show people. To write secretly... so you can actually be free to say anything you want.
writing self recognition
one must verge on the unknown, write toward the truth hitherto unrecognizable of one’s own sincerity, including the avoidable beauty of doom, shame, and embarrassment, that very area of personal self-recognition,(detailed individual is universal remember) which formal conventions, internalized, keep us from discovering in ourselves and others
writing voice saint
To gain your own voice, forget about having it heard. Become a saint of your own province and your own consciousness.
writing listening care
Concentrate on what you want to say to yourself and your friends. Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness. You say what you want to say when you don't care who's listening.
writing voice design
To gain your own voice you have to forget about having it heard.
writing mean current-events
Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events. Allan Gurganus
writing worry
Writers write about what worries them. Alistair MacLeod
writing thinking stories
I like to think that I am telling a story rather than writing it.