Quotes about writing
writing solitude drained
The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write. Marguerite Duras
writing hands play
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print. Marguerite Yourcenar
writing expression choices
Writing is a perpetual choice between a thousand expressions, none of which satisfies me, none of which, above all, satisfies me without the others. Yet I ought to know that only music permits a succession of chords.
writing translate
Translating is writing.
writing metaphor
I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor. Marianne Faithfull
writing capricious creatures
History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it. Mikhail Gorbachev
writing cliche admire
I guess it's a bit cliché, but as an actor, I really admire good writing. There are a lot of great ideas out there, but it's the execution that really makes it work. Mike Colter
writing men sake
My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself. Miguel de Unamuno
writing sunday paper
Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing. Nicholas Haslam
writing best-experiences film
Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life. Nicholas Jarecki
writing interesting people
The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that. Nicholas D. Kristof
writing journey thinking
I think it worked two ways. One, a lot of people writing about the movie used that as shorthand and it could either be a good thing or they could use it to dismiss the movie like we were a copycat movie or something like that. It's very much its own story. It is a young woman in a post-apocalyptic society, but after that it's just a whole different kind of story and a different journey that she goes through. Neil Burger
writing excuse mood
I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything. Ned Beauman
writing levels littles
The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.
writing shining pleasure
The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it! Naomi Shihab Nye
writing eden creative
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. Nadine Gordimer
writing fiction truthful
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
writing solitude madness
The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.
writing make-sense
Writing is making sense of life.
writing vision individual
All worthwhile writing... comes from an individual vision, privately pursued.
writing political purpose
What is the purpose of writing? For me personally, it is really to explain the mystery of life, and the mystery of life includes, of course, the personal, the political, the forces that make us what we are while there's another force from inside battling to make us something else.
writing made whole-life
Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.
writing character thinking
what a writer does is to try to make sense of life. I think that's what writing is, I think that's what painting is. It's seeking that thread of order and logic in the disorder, and the incredible waste and marvelous profligate character of life. What all artists are trying to do is to make sense of life.
writing views way
Perhaps the best way to write is to do so as if one were already dead, afraid of no one's reactions, answerable to no one's views.
writing discovery voyages
Writing is always a voyage of discovery.
writing needs made
I never talk about what I'm writing about currently, never. It's private work on your own, no need or obligation to talk about it. Writers are made into performers these days, including myself, but there are some instances in which I will not perform.
writing thinking work-out
a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time just to let things work out. Nothing is worse for this than society. Nothing is worse for this than the abrasive, if enjoyable, effect of other people.
writing literature stories
I didn't make any money from my writing until much later. I published about 80 stories for nothing. I spent on literature. Naguib Mahfouz
writing want lasts
If the urge to write should ever leave me, I want that day to be my last.
writing men thinking
Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We are condemned to work with upstarts, clowns who no doubt got their training in a circus and then turned to journalism as the appropriate place to display their tricks.
writing school home
When you spend time with your friends, what do you talk about? Those things which made an impression on you that day, that week ... I write stories the same way. Events at home, in school, at work, in the street, these are the bases for a story. Some experiences leave such a deep impression that instead of talking about them at the club I work them into a novel.
writing people telling-the-truth
The conqueror writes history, they came, they conquered and they write. You don't expect the people who came to invade us to tell the truth about us... Miriam Makeba
writing envy pity
It is better to arouse envy than pity. Publilius Syrus