Quotes about writing
writing yesterday pages
Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday. Ernest Gaines
writing missing singing
What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.
writing thinking who-i-am
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.
writing golden six
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
writing talking voice
I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about. Ernest Cline
writing empathy way
Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do. Erin Gruwell
writing thinking challenges
I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days. Erin Morgenstern
writing evil people
People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.
writing paint found
I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing.
writing brain different
Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.
writing emotional vivid-imagination
I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.
writing scared
Write what you’re scared about. Jason Katims
writing serious feels
And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. Cassandra Clare
writing poetry making-love
Everybody can write poetry, just like everybody knows how to make love. Gao Xingjian
writing reality self
If, while observing the boundless universe, the writer is able to scrutinise his own self as well as others, the resulting incisiveness of his observations will far surpass objective descriptions of reality.
writing profound want
I want to write a novel so profound that it would suffocate a fly.
writing people survival
For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.
writing self literature
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
writing suffering ease
Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.
writing dry hungry
You already know when I'm writing, so don't be surprised if it's short and dry, because I'm too hungry to write anything fat Frederic Chopin
writing hair rocks
It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling, as pale as ever, in a cell with such doors as Paris never had for gates. The cell is the shape of a tall coffin, with an enormous dusty vaulting, a small window... Bach, my scrawls and waste paper - silence - you could scream - there would still be silence. Indeed, I write to you from a strange place.
writing might next
I might just write a novel next. I don't know! Frank Ocean
writing stories next
It's about the stories. If I write 14 stories that I love, then the next step is to get the environment of music around it to best envelop the story, and all kinds of sonic goodness - sonic goodies.
writing home lions
I prefer to write and draw in the privacy of my home and with total freedom and then take it to the lion's den. Frank Miller
writing journalism shows
The day you write to please everyone you no longer are in journalism. You are in show business.
writing strategy ifs
If you get the objectives right, a lieutenant can write the strategy. George C. Marshall
writing editors editing
The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the editors, and then to have a first draft and get it back and work to fix it, I love reworking, I love editing, love love love revision, revision, revision, revision. George Carlin
writing composing sentences
I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. Christopher Hitchens
writing alcohol add
I'm very happy by myself--I'm lucky in that way--if I've got enough to read and something to write about and a bit of alcohol for me to add an edge, not to dull it.
writing thinking views
Its much like writing a screenplay with someone else and thats how we view it, I think. Christopher Darden
writing thinking controversial
I think that as I continue to write, my writing I hope will become more controversial and more provocative.
writing emotional thinking
I did not think that I was angry, but clearly anger was reflected in my writing. I did not think that I had been affected emotionally, but it was clear from my writing that I was still very emotional about the trial some six months after it ended.
writing play firsts
So many American plays are about family. When you're in the first part of your life, you write about family a lot. I find with my absurdist plays that I was actually writing about my family, but so disguised I didn't realize it myself. Christopher Durang