Quotes about writing
writing revolution obnoxious
You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular; you are very much otherwise. And you can write ten times better than I can. John Adams
writing political
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
writing play voice
I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice. James Iha
writing rocks different
The music industry is not what it used to be. Being in a good band is great, and I've been lucky to be in great bands. I've done solo stuff, and that's been great. I also produce rock bands and I do co-writes, where I write with different singers in bands and songwriters.
writing effort risk
The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously James Joyce
writing simple use
If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.
writing names childhood
What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
writing order perfect
I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
writing tables rooms
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
writing fantastic artifice
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
writing heart cities
For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.
writing way arguing
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.
writing interest pleasant
It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing James Schuyler
writing needed
One tends to write beyond what's needed
writing perfect sun
Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear. James Richardson
writing lines fantasy
Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.
writing trying hearing
When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.
writing certain ifs
I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist. James Salter
writing novel great-things
I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.
writing who-i-am years
But that isn't my life. I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I devoted the subsequent 50 years - more - to writing.
writing internet flowering
On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.
writing ideas people
You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.
writing views trying
I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.
writing ideas effort
My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don’t.
writing decided
In 1957, I decided: write or perish.
writing opportunity joy
The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.
writing impulse ultimate
What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.
writing lasts
Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best. James Russell Lowell
writing waiting right-time
If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.
writing night two
Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
writing land ideas
I know my political ideas affect what I write, but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every topic I've written about begins as a question. How do police departments behave? Why do bureaucracies function the way they do? What moral intuitions do people have? How do courts make their decisions? What do blacks want from the political system? I can honestly say I didn't know the answers to those questions when I began looking into them. James Q. Wilson
writing army men
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man. James Harrington
writing unique inheritance
The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's only stuff for sale. James Gunn