Quotes about writing
writing artist zest
An artist's sensitivity to criticism is, at least in part, an effort to keep unimpaired the zest, or confidence, or arrogance, which he needs to make creation possible; or an instinct to climb through his problems in his own way as he should, and must. Christopher Fry
writing floating rooms
Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing. Christine McVie
writing responsibility people
We are living in a renaissance of personal writing. People are rebalancing the impersonalization endemic to modern society with an increase in personal introspection. We have enough common psychology under our belts to know that psychology doesn't explain or heal everything and that it isn't the fulfillment of awareness, but its beginning. We are undergoing a shift in paradigms in which we are trying to develop new models for humanness and human responsibility. This is no small task. Our individual lives are placed under increasing pressure to respond adequately to both inner and outer change. Christina Baldwin
writing creating lifetime
The reason I spend thousands of lifetime hours creating something 99 percent of which no one else is likely to ever read is that writing itself is the gift.
writing journey maps
Writing makes a map, and there is something about a journey that begs to have its passage marked.
writing desire stories
Our desires teach us who we are and who we want to become. Our desires shape our stories.
writing reflection bridges
Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.
writing thinking would-be
I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do. Christina Romer
writing inspire listening-to-music
Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now Christina Milian
writing mean cutting
Lyrically, 'less words mean more' is a pretty good rule of thumb. Try to cut out the fat and get to the meat of what you're saying. Chris Stapleton
writing thinking laughing
I don't write jokes first. I write down topics. I think of what I want to talk about, and then I write the jokes - they don't write me... And even if you don't think it's funny, you won't think it's boring. You might disagree, but you'll listen. And maybe even laugh as you disagree. Chris Rock
writing laughing want
The thing about having an audience right there laughing is that critics can write what they want, but the proof is right there in front of you.
writing two trying
I never really write the jokes. I just sit down over a week or two and try to figure out what I want to talk about. Once I narrow that down, then I start working on the material, like "How do I make this stuff funny?"
writing perspective holocaust
The obvious reductio ad absurdum is Holocaust deniers: Should their perspective be provided, for "balance," any time someone writes about the Holocaust? Chris Mooney
writing voice mind
It's always flattering when somebody you really respect and like wants you to be involved in their project - let alone writes a part with your voice in mind. Chris Messina
writing giving balls
I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer. Chris Martin
writing fate risk
Preparation is not only about managing external risks, but about limiting the likelihood that you'll unwittingly add to them. When you're the author of your own fate, you don't want to write a tragedy. Aside from anything else, the possibility of a sequel is nonexistent. Chris Hadfield
writing miracle doe
One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come. Gertrude Stein
writing
To write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write is to write.
writing years half
If you write a half hour a day it makes a lot of writing year by year.
writing oakland use
What was the use of my having come from Oakland it was not natural to have come from there yes write about it if I like or anything if I like but not there, there is no there there.
writing thinking firsts
I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.
writing stranger dear
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.
writing records plans
I still write music, and I still have sessions, and I still record, but I have no plans. Gerard Way
writing thinking
Thinking visually is my starting point, and then the writing happens.
writing sometimes exciting
Sometimes it can be really exciting, but I avoid the blank page now. What I do is hand write everything. When you're hand writing, there's never a blank page, really. There's so much you can do with that.
writing people honor
I was talking to Cecil [Castellucci], who writes Shade, and I was saying to her, and she was saying the same thing, that I'm not even the same person who wrote the first issue of Doom Patrol, and that was six months ago. I'm a totally different person now, already. It's weird to look back at stuff, but it's an honor that there's a legacy of people who still keep it in their heads. It's really cool!
writing winning guy
Let me tell you how the story ends, where the good guys die and the bad guys win. It doesn't matter how many friend you make, but the graffite they write on your grave.
writing littles reason
It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else. Havelock Ellis
writing thinking looks
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological! Hans Magnus Enzensberger
writing emotional impact
In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact. Hal David
writing thinking acting
I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing. Greta Gerwig
writing make-me-happy
Writing makes me happy. Gretchen Rubin