Quotes about writing
writing unsaid great-power
The unsaid, for me, exerts great power... Louise Gluck
writing my-time
I spend most of my time writing. Louise Erdrich
writing people impossible
It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
writing way i-can
By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
writing trying crude
It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.
writing hard-work thinking
Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because, well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk. Gene Wilder
writing track laughing
I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it.
writing adventure mean
I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren individualism, of considerable interest to me, but I do not know why I should presume it will be so to you. Egotism is not tiresome, or it ought not to be, if one is sincere about oneself; but it is so hard to be sincere. Well, never mind, I mean to be, and you know me well enough to see through me when I am humbugging. James Anthony Froude
writing tv-shows long
You hope for that with anything, but with a TV show, the writer and the actor being the right mix are more important than the actual writing of the pilot because you hope its something that can have a long life. Jake Kasdan
writing wind flying
Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters. Jacques Lacan
writing used roof
I used to sit on the roof of the apartment where Jim Morrison used to write his early lyrics Henry Rollins
writing desire talent
I have no desire to write anything for screen. That's a great talent.
writing opportunity long
The opportunity to write for the 'L.A. Weekly' has been one of the better breaks that has come my way in a long time.
writing years people
The best compliment I get every year is that a band will write me and say, 'We were just on tour, and we had people coming to our show saying they had never heard us before they heard us on your show.'
writing trying heartbreaking
Trying to write music, be in a band and keep it all happening is one of the hardest, morale-destroying, heartbreaking things you will ever try to do - and that's when it's going well.
writing views stuff
I can only write about personal stuff, about my point of view.
writing simple thinking
All good writers inspire me as I have never thought I was any good. As far as a writer who made me think I could do it, it was Henry Miller. Not because I thought he was so simple that I reckoned I could pull it off as well, but it was his freedom and guts that really moved me to want to write all the time.
writing preparation stage
With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at.
writing speak
I like how I write better than how I speak.
writing impact connections
For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing.
writing dull aging
Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures. Henry Anatole Grunwald
writing ideas despair
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. Hector Berlioz
writing long needs
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short. Henry David Thoreau
writing heat great-writing
Write while the heat is in you.
writing thinking mind
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
writing achievement done
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
writing use-it-or-lose-it legs
Writing is the only profession where nobody considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Money is like an arm or a leg; use it or lose it. Henry Ford
writing airplane
I write a lot on airplanes actually because it's completely isolating; there's no one to talk to, there's nothing to do. Mandy Moore
writing italian years
I came out here to do the acting, and then after a year of auditions and not getting anything, I met these Italian guys and they asked me to write lyrics for them. Then they said, "Why don't you just front the band?" I said, "Well, maybe because I can't sing. I've never sang before in my life." Malin Akerman
writing thinking people
Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that's nonsense. If you write in a way that is clear, transparent, and elegant, it will reach everyone. Malcolm Gladwell
writing men tables
A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour. Mahatma Gandhi
writing answers vehement
Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.
writing men idols
The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation. John Adams