Quotes about writing
writing emotional grandparent
But the most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes. Adriana Trigiani
writing silence sound
I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.
writing thinking hands
A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith. The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.
writing dust people
Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it. Adrian Rogers
writing writing-essays theory
I don't like writing essays or theory. Adrian Mitchell
writing ideas flow
With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out. Adora Svitak
writing opportunity ice-cream
When you write, produce, engineer and mix everything yourself, it tends to take a long time to do anything. And when you're a perfectionist little monster, it makes it even harder. But it's a blast and I wouldn't trade the opportunity for all the ice cream sandwiches in the universe. Adam Young
writing
When I'm directing, I'm pretty much not writing, but when I'm not directing I am writing a lot. Adam Rapp
writing needs speak
It's been hard for me to not write, and that's the only process I can speak to I guess, it's so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life.
writing different world
When I am directing, it is much, much, much, much, much different. I'm a much more practical person in the world, I show up on time, I am very rigorous about scheduling, and I am very focused. But when I'm writing I am just a big, irresponsible mess and I'm just impossible to get in touch with, and I don't spend time with friends.
writing typical
A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.
writing play people
One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
writing thinking trying
I think writers can respond by writing about the refugee crisis, by looking at problems faced by migrants, by trying hard to portray them as the human beings that they are. Adam Hochschild
writing thinking speak
I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write. Adam Gopnik
writing thinking practice
Writing doesn't come easily to anyone, I think, certainly not to me. But pressure and practice does lend a certain fluency, I think - the more sentences you write, the more sentences you have written, if that slightly Zen confection makes any sense.
writing winning your-side
Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.
writing climate kind
Big writers become a kind of shared climate.
writing joy said
Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
writing letters knows
You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter. Ada Leverson
writing life-is unpredictable
The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance. Abraham Joshua Heschel
writing blood years
Everything brought forward in favor of Socialism during the last hundred years, in thousands of writings and speeches, all the blood which has been spilt by the supporters of Socialism, cannot make socialism workable. Ludwig von Mises
writing issues liberty
This dilettantish inability to comprehend the essential issues of the conduct of production affairs is not only manifested in the writings of Marx and Engels. It permeates no less the contributions of contemporary pseudo-economics.
writing thinking dying
I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. Petrarch
writing hands mind
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.
writing desire praying
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
writing night house
Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night. William Shakespeare
writing rapper southern
Oh, southern rappers... so hard to write a rhyme when you only know 30 words. Daniel Tosh
writing people actors
I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented. Danai Gurira
writing topics shame
I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.
writing years risk
The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes to write it. Dana Spiotta
writing want strange
I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true.
writing laundry wells
I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
writing breathing order
In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least that's how I keep writing them.