Quotes about writing
writing phrases stories
It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life. Hortense Calisher
writing mind shapes
The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
writing ideas acting
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
writing dark light
When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it. Howard Barker
writing secret sound
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment. Horace
writing thinking transcription
Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live. Hank Azaria
writing want type
I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only once. And that goes relatively quickly, since it really depends only on how fast I type. Hannah Arendt
writing excellence
For excellence, the presence of others is always required.
writing singing kind
I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing. Guy Clark
writing lasts firsts
Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident. Guy Garvey
writing small-numbers drunk
Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly known how to do best is drink. Even though I have read a lot, I have drunk even more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk much more than most people who drink. Guy deBord
writing drunk people
I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.
writing expression ideas
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
writing giving verbs
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it. Guy de Maupassant
writing reflection men
The reflection and experience of many years have led me to consider the holy writings not only as the most authentic and instructive in themselves, but as the clue to all other history. They tell us what man is, and they alone tell us why he is what he is: a contradictory creature that seeing and approving of what is good, pursues and performs what is evil. All of private and public life is there displayed. ... From the same pure fountain of wisdom we learn that vice destroys freedom; that arbitrary power is founded on public immorality. Gouverneur Morris
writing goes-on television
I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television. Gore Vidal
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).
writing track done
I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.
writing thinking imagine
Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!
writing brain
The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.
writing people trying
I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then they become Ministers of Culture under de Gaulle, and they begin living their own fictions.
writing mean past
There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, Well, so-and-so will like this, which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
writing views voice
I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.
writing thinking class
I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.
writing alcohol bedtime
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
writing thinking advice
Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!
writing interesting way
The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.
writing thinking just-do-it
In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
writing two force
These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.
writing thinking paper
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place
writing born company
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.
writing cities perfect
You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.
writing player casting
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.