Quotes about writing
writing
I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing, Octavia Butler
writing persistence thinking
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
writing stories wanted
I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
writing band population
My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles. Nuno Bettencourt
writing wind feet
I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground. Ntozake Shange
writing thinking self
Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become Norman Vincent Peale
writing people listening
I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening. Emilie Autumn
writing philosopher professors
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. Emile M. Cioran
writing proportion fling
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
writing men misery
The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.
writing next ifs
If I did anything 'next,' I would do writing. Ellen Muth
writing order land
I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is problematic because in production, you have to make the language lift off the page. But a good actor can turn it into human speech. I err sometimes toward having such a compound of images that if an actor lands heavily on each one, you never pull through to a larger idea. That's a problem for the audience. But I come to playwriting from the visual world - I used to be a painter. I also really love novels and that use of language. But it's tricky to ask that of the theatre. Ellen McLaughlin
writing care columns
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care. Ellen Goodman
writing people movement
People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.
writing thinking firsts
Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.
writing add few-words
I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract. I work and fiddle and keep working and fiddling, and I only stop at the deadline.
writing imagination vivid
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember. Ellen Glasgow
writing painful found
I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.
writing self independence
I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
writing light ideas
In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision--the precious rays of light shining from the throne. Ellen G. White
writing bridges simplicity
Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code. Eric S. Raymond
writing reuse knows
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)
writing thinking people
So for everything I do, I'm very clear about what I'm doing, and I tell people what it's about. They get a sense of what I'm thinking. I don't let people think I'm going to write something in praise in the meatpacking industry, and then they read it and it's actually attacking the meatpacking industry. Eric Schlosser
writing views trying
Point of view is present in anything I write, but I really try to let the subject and facts speak for themselves.
writing loss thinking
Years ago when I got stuck, I'd start twirling my hair. That's not possible anymore. I can't prove the relationship between writing and hair loss, but I think I pulled out a fair amount trying to work on certain sentences.
writing wish ifs
If you wish to write, write. Epictetus
writing wish needs
If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.
writing would-be reader
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
writing ego enough
Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other. Epicurus
writing soul paint
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul. Emily Carr
writing essence want
It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.
writing feel-better feelings
Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint.
writing soul stronger
There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.