Quotes about writing
writing history movement
The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. Karl Marx
writing self people
I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves! Kajol
writing stories recipes
Sometimes ... it takes me an entire day to write a recipe, to communicate it correctly. It's really like writing a little short story. Julia Child
writing talking response
when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living. Julia Cameron
writing reality alive
Writing is a combination of being alert to your outer surroundings and alive to your inner reality ...
writing dancing needs
We don't often talk about the fact that writing is all about rhythm. When you get too up in your head, you can lose a lot of your writing. Sometimes what a writer really needs to do is go dancing.
writing more-time dominant
When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing, and we have less and less to write about.
writing practice life-is
Pivotal to a happy writing life is a practice of daily personal writing.
writing giving environment
Taking the time to write in our lives gives us the time of our lives. As we describe our environments, we begin to savor them. Even the most rushed and pell-mell life begins to take on the patina of being cherished.
writing trying limited-time
Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way.
writing path right-thing
To write is to right things. A path will emerge.
writing over-you paper
When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about something, somebody says, 'How do you feel?' and you say, 'Oh, I feel okay.' Then you write about it, and you discover you don't feel okay.
writing conscious fluid
When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious.
writing mind want
If you want to write a novel, it's the Divine mind wanting to express.
writing medicine injury
Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.
writing thinking house
And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders … for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.
writing heart profound
Writing-and this is the big secret-wants to be written. Writing loves a writer the way God loves a true devotee. Writing will fill your heart if you let it. It will fill your pages and help to fill your life.
writing passion yield
we should write because writing brings clarity and passion to the act of living. writing is sensual, experiential, grounding. we should write because writing is good for the soul. we should write because writing yields us a body of work, a felt path through the world we live in.
writing today
Did you write today? Then you're a writer today.
writing trying waste
We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead we should be writing for our ideal reader.
writing cherish acts-of-love
Writing is an act of cherishing... It is an act of love.
writing heart love-is
Being in the mood to write, like being in the mood to make love, is a luxury that isn't necessary in a long-term relationship. Just as the first caress can lead to a change of heart, the first sentence, however tentative and awkward, can lead to a desire to go just a little further.
writing ideas needs
We have this idea that we need to be in the mood to write. We don't.
writing breathing matter
Writing is like breathing, it's possible to learn to do it well, but the point is to do it no matter what.
writing love-life creativity
An artist paints, dances, draws, writes, designs, or acts at the expanding edge of consciousness. We press into the unknown rather than the known. This makes life lovely and lively.
writing should
We should write, above all, because we are writers, whether we call ourselves that or not.
writing play piano
But do you know how old I will be by the time I learn to really play the piano / act / paint / write a decent play?" Yes . . . the same age you will be if you don't.
writing people
Writers don't write to inform other people, they write to find out something themselves. Judith Guest
writing scripts film
I would love to produce a film. I have written a script and am in the process of writing another, so maybe it will happen down the road. I would love to do a film in Africa. Judi Shekoni
writing long stories
I feel with this film that as long as we tell Philomena's story and as long as we're true to her, which Jeff and Steve have already done by writing the story... we must not sell her short;. She's a most remarkable woman and all my concern was that we must be absolutely true to her story. Judi Dench
writing looks stories
If it gets to a situation where it turns into a debate, look, the person that I'm debating is the person that is writing the story or presenting the broadcast. They're not going to write the story in such a way that shows they lost. Josh Earnest
writing needs natural
A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty. Joseph Joubert
writing secret desire
When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel. Patti Smith