Quotes about writing
writing winter house
You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time. Dan O'Brien
writing college paper
I kind of got more interested in writing after I turned in my last college essay and nobody was going to tell me what kind of academic papers to write anymore. I could write whatever I wanted, and I realized that I actually liked it when I could choose what I would write. Dan Millman
writing magic stories
Writing stories is a kind of magic, too. Cornelia Funke
writing dragons riders
And I plan to write a sequel to Dragon Rider.
writing
So what? All writers are lunatics!
writing dark self
I'd say, [writing memoir] not so much a model, but maybe to provide an insight, here or there, to help somebody come to terms with the dark corners of their own soul, to come to terms with the undecided, their own sense of self, and maybe help develop a capacity to love - to love wisdom, love justice. Cornel West
writing bored doe
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else. Cormac McCarthy
writing ideas tragedy
The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.
writing thinking perfect
I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore and a burden. I certainly don't feel that way about it. Sometimes it's difficult. You know, you always have this image of the perfect thing which you can never achieve, but which you never stop trying to achieve. But I think ... that's your signpost and your guide. You'll never get there, but without it you won't get anywhere.
writing kids class
Most people say, "Show, don't tell," but I stand by Show and Tell, because when writers put their work out into the world, they're like kids bringing their broken unicorns and chewed-up teddy bears into class in the sad hope that someone else will love them as much as they do. Colson Whitehead
writing taught
John McGovern taught me that it's OK to write repeatedly about the same things. Colm Toibin
writing age barcelona
I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write.
writing firsts fountain
I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.
writing manipulation realizing
All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
writing people inspire
I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing. Common
writing organization association
I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations. Colum McCann
writing knows
I write about what I know; and I write about things that are new to me, and that I didn't know before.
writing waste scripts
I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time. Cliff Martinez
writing years two
Singer/songwriters spend two or three years making an album, and then it goes up for sale and everybody pirates it and you don't make any money. Whereas, writing a film score you still get presented with a paycheck.
writing cutting waste
For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.
writing want information
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code Clifford Geertz
writing research literature
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
writing done ends
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done
writing style academic
I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style
writing thinking anthropologists
I think of myself as a writer who happens to be doing his writing as an anthropologist
writing luxury liberty
As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing. Dwight Yoakam
writing names earth
Seeking to perpetuate one's name on earth is like writing on the sand by the seashore; to be perpetual it must be written on eternal shores. Dwight L. Moody
writing sometimes rhyme
Sometimes I have something stuck in my head and that directs the rhyme that I'm writing with. Courtney Barnett
writing common said
Uncommon things must be said in common words, if you would have them to be received in less than a century. Coventry Patmore
writing cat thinking
I keep social with everyone because I want to know what's going on at every level. At the same time, if I'm not alone a certain amount of time per day then I'll go nuts, because I can't write and I can't think. I can't deal with people all the time. I like being alone. I'm a bit of a cat lady in that way. Courtney Love
writing needs produce
You need to write on your own and produce your own life.
writing blow toilets
Remember, if you write anything nasty about me, I'll come around and blow up your toilet.
writing rocks scripts
Rock is all about writing your own script; it's all about pioneering.