Quotes about writing
writing ifs accidents
I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident. Gordon Getty
writing men serious-illness
I know of no other practise which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects. There is a great potential within each of us to go on learning. Regardless of our age, unless there be serious illness, we can read, study, drink in the writings of wonderful men and women. It is never too late to learn. Gordon B. Hinckley
writing men verdi
A man like Verdi must write like Verdi. Giuseppe Verdi
writing ideas giving
Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all, it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English. Glen Cook
writing civilization progress
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization. Gerald Durrell
writing hands use
About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other. Harper Lee
writing should-have done
The day it comes out, there's already things that you start to go, 'Oh, I should have done that a little differently.' You start to make a list in your head. I actually write things down -- what I'm going to do next time. Howie Day
writing thinking different
When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do. Howard Nemerov
writing paper firsts
Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.
writing icy said
I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority). Gore Vidal
writing thinking mind
I don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. I take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and I think it's worked--in the sense that I find there is an audience. Harold Pinter
writing names challenges
When a director writes, there's a compulsory arbitration. You have a right to challenge any of the arbitrators, but they pick three of four arbitrators who read all the drafts with no names attached and then allocate credit. Harold Ramis
writing stories next
There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
writing color people
I'm a storyteller, I'm not a literary writer, and I don't want to be a literary writer. People say to me, "Oh, when are you going to write something different?" What? I don't want to write anything different. I'm writing relationships between people, all different colors, all different sizes, all different sexual orientations, and that's what I want to do. Jackie Collins
writing way stranger
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Gertrude Stein
writing mind kind
And the writers are good in that it's easy to memorize, and good writing has an innate rhythm to it. And I've always felt that it's easier to get in your head than writing that has very kind of mind busting moments. Glenn Close
writing piano hymns
It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write. Jessi Colter
writing half crafts
Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp. Ice T
writing too-much good-business
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. Irvin S. Cobb
writing kind mysticism
There is a kind of mysticism to writing. Irvine Welsh
writing cutting lessons
We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth-if such a thing can even be said to exist. Isaac Asimov
writing mind study
It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
writing plot stories
I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first. Grace Paley
writing dont-lie ifs
Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.
writing lays written
Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before. Georg C. Lichtenberg
writing equipment our-thoughts
Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts. Friedrich Nietzsche
writing two knowing
Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.
writing political choices
My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible. Jessica Valenti
writing emotional details
I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later. Jenni Rivera
writing silence sound
I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet. Adriana Trigiani
writing way feels
The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am. David E. Kelley
writing long junk
Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it. David Eddings
writing expectations able
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything. David Baldacci