Quotes about writing
writing dying
Writing is simply one thought after another dying upon the one before. Mel Brooks
writing thinking alzheimers
You're young forever when you write. Alfred Hitchcock directed until the day he died. As long as you don't have any dementia or Alzheimer's, if you have your All-Bran every day and clear yourself out, I think your brains are gonna be all right.
writing trying actors
Comedy is serious - deadly serious. Never, never try to be funny! The actors must be serious. Only the situation must be absurd. Funny is in the writing, not in the performing. If the situation isn't absurd, no amount of joke will help.
writing
Everything starts with writing.
writing heart creative
No creative writer knows what is commercial and what isn't. You just write from your heart, you write from the deepest, creative urges in you, and you write from your soul, and you just either get lucky or not.
writing school nursing
hough I was creative, I also liked math and science. At Knox College, I studied creative writing and earned a degree in chemistry, thinking I would attend medical school. Ultimately, I decided that a career in nursing would allow more time for pursuing other creative interests. While I worked as an RN, I wrote stories inspired by my patients, designed t-shirts, and made hand-painted sandals. Mary Pope Osborne
writing secret mind
If there is a secret to writing, I haven’t found it yet. All I know is you need to sit down, clear your mind, and hang in there. Mary McGrory
writing trying want
I want to write. I have always wanted to write. I do not care it I am not good at it. I just want to try. Mary Pipher
writing wanted
I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else. Mary Oliver
writing heart skills
Writing a poem ... is a kind of possible love affair between something like the heart (that courageous but also shy factory of emotion) and the learned skills of the conscious mind.
writing thinking use
I consider myself kind of a reporter - one who uses words that are more like music and that have a choreography. I never think of myself as a poet; I just get up and write.
writing thinking ideas
It is no use thinking that writing of poems - the actual writing - can accommodate itself to a social setting, even the most sympathetic social setting of a workshop composed of friends. It cannot. The work improves there and often the will to work gets valuable nourishment and ideas. But, for good reasons, the poem requires of the writer not society or instruction, but a patch of profound and unbroken solitude.
writing wanted
He is exactly the poem I wanted to write.
writing littles way
I like to feel that every day or most days, I do a little bit of writing. I am a creature of habit in terms of the way I live. Mary Chapin Carpenter
writing church doctrine
This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures. Martin Chemnitz
writing outsiders
You have to be an outsider to write, Martin Cruz Smith
writing idiot used
I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.
writing scene passing
It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.
writing holiday home
It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. When you're on holiday and writing a letter home to a friend, no one wants a letter that says the food is good and the weather is charming and the accommodations comfortable. You want to hear about lost passports and rat-filled shacks. Martin Amis
writing giving faithful
It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it style. What you're trying to do is be faithful to your perceptions and transmit them as faithfully as you can. I say these sentences until they sound right. There's no objective reason why they're right. They just sound right to me.
writing thinking choices
Much modern prose is praised for its terseness, its scrupulous avoidance of curlicue, etcetera. But I don't feel the deeper rhythm there. I don't think these writers are being terse out of choice. I think they are being terse because it's the only way they can write.
writing talking age
We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.
writing register i-can
I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write,
writing two different
All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.
writing wake-up want
This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling.
writing sound again-and-again
I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right.
writing hypnosis secret
When things are going well, you do have the sense that what you’re writing is being fed to you in some way. Auden compared writing a poem to cleaning an old piece of slate until the letters appear. The only way you could reveal your god is perhaps under hypnosis. It’s sacred and it’s secret, even to the writer.
writing kind late
Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on.
writing heaven novel
You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven.
writing abuse injustice
No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. And the great satirists, like Swift and Dickens, tend to write about abuses and injustices that have already been partially corrected - you write about it after it's over.
writing heart mind
To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart.
writing hands long
I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow.
writing eye people
Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do, to see what's there, to see it in a way that renews it. It becomes more and more urgent as the planet gets worn flat and forest after forest is slain to print the paper for people's impressions to be scrawled down on. It becomes harder and harder to be original, to see things with an innocent eye. Innocence is much tied up with it. As the planet gets progressively less innocent, you need a more innocent eye to see it.