Quotes about writing
writing positivity people
You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script. Oprah Winfrey
writing process writing-process
I love the writing process. It's something that I'm interested in personally and something I always do on every movie. Olivia Wilde
writing criticism world
Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better. Oliver Goldsmith
writing waiting mood
Don't wait until you're 'in the mood.' Get into the mood by writing. Margaret Atwood
writing together may
Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth flow to hear or read, and it's easier to memorize.
writing people depth
The short answer to 'Why do you write' is - I suppose I write for some of the same reasons I read: to live a double life; to go places I haven't been; to examine life on earth; to come to know people in ways, and at depths, that are otherwise impossible; to be surprised.
writing cuneiform
Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.
writing mean events
A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means whatever you say it means.
writing genre mediocre
There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.
writing dark ideas
I began writing at the age of 5, but there was a dark period between the ages of 8 and 16 when I didn't write. I started again at 16 and have no idea why, but it was suddenly the only thing I wanted to do.
writing desire narrative
Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire to make the risky trip to the underworld and to bring something or someone back from the dead.
writing men making-love
Ah men, why do you want all this attention? I can write poems for myself, make love to a doorknob if absolutely necessary. What do you have to offer me I can't find otherwise except humiliation? Which I no longer need.
writing inspire pages
Blank pages inspire me with terror.
writing forever lines
Write down the thoughts and even more, write down a specific line. If you don't, it'll fly away forever.
writing lines married
Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.
writing going-away taught
Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it.
writing heart blind
The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel. Make the deaf hear.
writing safety-pins broken
Writing is very improvisational. It's like trying to fix a broken sewing machine with safety pins and rubber bands. A lot of tinkering.
writing perfect long
I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.
writing might knots
Good writing takes place at intersections, at what you might call knots, at places where the society is snarled or knotted up.
writing perfect waiting
If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.
writing ratios reason
A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.
writing perfect writers-block
If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.
writing ifs havens
I write as if I've lived a lot of things I haven't lived.
writing poetry states
Writing poetry is a state of free float.
writing fighting racism
The object is very clear in the fight against racism; you have reasons why you're opposed to it. But when you're writing a novel, you don't want the reader to come out of it voting yes or no to some question. Life is more complicated than that.
writing thinking trying
Everyone thinks writers must know more about the inside of the human head, but that's wrong. They know less, that's why they write. Trying to find out what everyone else takes for granted.
writing law history
Who does not know that the first law of historical writing is the truth. Marcus Tullius Cicero
writing signatures philosopher
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.
writing learning science
Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.
writing editing mind
Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind.
writing careers firsts
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money. Marcel Achard
writing black humans
I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody. Mara Brock Akil