Quotes about writing
writing long waiting
What the world wants, what the world is waiting for, is not Modern Poetry or Classical Poetry or Neo-Classical Poetry - but Good Poetry. And the dreadful disreputable doubt, which stirs in my own skeptical mind, is doubt about whether it would really matter much what style a poet chose to write in, in any period, as long as he wrote Good poetry. Gilbert K. Chesterton
writing years way
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes are generally honest. Complete solemnity is almost always dishonest. The writer of the snippet merely refers to a frivolous and fugitive fact in a frivolous and fugitive way. The writer of the leading article has to write about a fact he has known for 20 minutes as though he has studied it for 20 years.
writing years bridges
And inasmuch as the bridge is a symbol of all such poetry as I am interested in writing it is my present fancy that a year from now I'll be more contented working in an office than ever before. Hart Crane
writing emotional childhood
Your emotional life is not written in cement during childhood. You write each chapter as you go along. Harry Stack Sullivan
writing character sleep
Because I don't do stand-up, radio has always been my equivalent, a place to stay in connection with the public and force myself to write every week and come up with new characters. Plus it's a medium that – having grown up with it and putting myself to sleep with a radio under my pillow [as a kid] – I love. No matter what picture you want to create in the listener's mind, a few minutes of work gets it done. Harry Shearer
writing thinking voice
I think it's amazing to have one writer write every episode of a series. It's very rare, I think. You get a voice that continues. Harry Treadaway
writing people design
Tone is always such an important thing, and that's achieved through a multitude of people. It comes through the writing, it comes through the way it's shot, and it comes through the production design and the sound design.
writing stuff would-be
I heard some stuff recently from Julian Casablancas, and his solo stuff is amazing. If I could write with anyone, it would be him. Harry Styles
writing people albums
I write the music I like. If other people like it, fine, they can go buy the albums. And if they don't like it, there's always Michael Jackson for them to listen to. Frank Zappa
writing people advice
The advice would be the same for any kind of fiction. Keep writing, and keep sending things out, not to friends and relatives, but to people who have the power to buy. A lot of additional, useful tips could be added, but this is fundamental. Fred Saberhagen
writing age 1960s
I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.
writing broken clubs
I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is. Fred Rogers
writing
Money to a writer is time to write. Frank Herbert
writing attention ifs
You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.
writing historical secret
The writing of history is largely a process of diversion. Most historical accounts distract attention from the secret influences behind great events.
writing desire done
To write much, and to write rapidly, are empty boasts. The world desires to know what you have done, and not how you did it. George Henry Lewes
writing science library
Mathematicians do not write for the circulating library.
writing letters
I don't write letters anymore. George H. W. Bush
writing thinking years
Directing, to me, starts even before we get to the set. Directing is a fluid, an abstract thing. It's not done only purely in the moment. It's an idea that you plant before. It's a location that you show. It's something I whisper in someone's ear. It's a freeform thing. It only takes me a week to write the script, but it's years that you're thinking about it. The execution is really the fast part. Harmony Korine
writing games knows
You really can’t write unless you read. You have to know what the game is all about. Harold Brodkey
writing class ideas
The idea of Herman Melville in a writing class is always distressing to me. Harold Bloom
writing thinking views
What is literary tradition? What is a classic? What is a canonical view of tradition? How are canons of accepted classics formed,and how are they unformed? I think that all these quite traditional questions can take one simplistic but still dialectical question as their summing up: do we choose tradition or does it choose us, and why is it necessary that a choosing take place, or a being chosen? What happens if one tries to write, or to teach, or to think, or even to read without the sense of a tradition? Why, nothing at all happens, just nothing.
writing thinking want
You know, I don't want to be offensive. But 'Infinite Jest' [regarded by many as Wallace's masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can't think, he can't write. There's no discernible talent.
writing heart ashes
Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit. Guru Nanak
writing thinking trying
Once you're directing, you're kind of in a certain mode, where you're taking whatever is on the page and forming it into the film that you think it might want to be. So whether it's my writing or not, I still try to work with it in the same way. Gus Van Sant
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 hands deception
Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when he came to compare them with their originals, he was surprised to find that they were nothing for his purpose! the originals conveyed a quite contrary sense to that of the pretended quoters, who often, from innocent blundering, and sometimes from purposed deception, had falsified their quotations. This is an useful story for second-hand authorities! Isaac Disraeli
writing trying too-much
When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins. Isaac Bashevis Singer
writing perspective outsiders
I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider. Isaac Marion
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