Quotes about writing
writing men fleeting
Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence. Ishmael Reed
writing justice definitions
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing. Ishmael Reed
writing thinking long
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab, as long as my literary legs hold up. Ishmael Reed
writing world engaged
I have T.V. on all the time when I'm writing. I have music on. I'm engaged with the world. Ishmael Reed
writing imagination poetry
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. Ishmael Reed
writing dwelling people
Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing. Iris Dement
writing i-can
I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it. Irrfan Khan
writing too-much good-business
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. Irvin S. Cobb
writing culture should
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is. Irvine Welsh
writing people trying
The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel. Irvine Welsh
writing ideas perfect
When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what youre doing is not any kind of public show, until youre ready for it. Irvine Welsh
writing kind mysticism
There is a kind of mysticism to writing. Irvine Welsh
writing fiction-and-nonfiction nonfiction
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction. Irvine Welsh
writing letters
The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future. Iris Murdoch
writing character fighting
It's exciting to get to write characters that love each other and fight for each other. Ilana Glazer
writing vivaldi
Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times. Igor Stravinsky
writing murder commit
Those who commit the murders write the reports. Ida B. Wells
writing long house
It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it! Idris Elba
writing pages weakness
Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page. Hyman Rickover
writing gears stuff
I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion. Hunter Hayes
writing people keith
There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder. Hunter Hayes
writing needs records
I write for myself. I don't write because I have a record coming out. I write because I want to. I need to. Hunter Hayes
writing clue truth-is
Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue. Gloria Naylor
writing creative able
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work. Gloria Naylor
writing artist america
There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a Black American writes a story, it's called a Black story. I take exception to that. Every artist has articulated to his own experience. The problem is that some people do not see Blacks as Americans. Gloria Naylor
writing thinking age
I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about. Gloria Vanderbilt
writing would-be written
The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written. Gloria Vanderbilt
writing stories teeth
Writing the story of your own life is a bit like drilling your own teeth. Gloria Swanson
writing people negative
I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it. James Frey
writing style pieces
When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going. James Frey
writing thinking important
There's something, I think, that gets lost when we write something - something gets lost in the translation. So I speak everything out, and it's more important how it sounds. And applying that to more formal aspects of writing. James Frey
writing voice trying
I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other writing. I speak everything, so if something sounds right I write it. It's more about sound and the rhythm of speech than written language. James Frey
writing interest autobiography
Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography. James Frey