Quotes about writing
writing tone tunes
Any asshole can write a tone-row. It takes a composer to write a tune. Leonard Bernstein
writing imagination creative
You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In five or ten minutes, the imagination will heat, the tightness will fade, and a certain spirit and rhythm will take over.
writing people want
People write music, and the music is out there for people to interpret it how they want to. Leona Lewis
writing giving use
I always thought that poetry is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. So to call yourself a poet is a kind of dangerous description. It's for others; it's for others to use. Leonard Cohen
writing thinking needs
I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.
writing luck want
I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work — just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege.
writing night white
My page was too white My ink was too thin The day wouldn't write What the night pencilled in.
writing order knows
I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.
writing want pay
I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
writing poetry ashes
Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.
writing people obscure
People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.
writing cutting shining
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
writing want terrorism
I don't want to constantly be writing about terrorism and strife. Lawrence Wright
writing knows
We write about ourselves because we know about ourselves. Layne Staley
writing dark feelings
It's just writing about things, feelings, not that we're dark or depressed...just as much as anyone else is.
writing thinking thumbs-up
I wrote about drugs, and I didn't think I was being unsafe or careless by writing about them. I didn't want fans to think heroin was cool. But then I've had fans come up to me and give me the thumbs up, telling me they're high. That's exactly what I didn't want to happen.
writing cutting childhood
I've told youngsters not to write their autobiographical novel at the age of twenty-one; to save it for the time when they're fifty-one or sixty-one. They should write other novels first, to learn their craft; they shouldn't cut their teeth on the valuable material of childhood because they'll never have better material, ever, to work with. Laura Z. Hobson
writing agony
Writers talk about the agony of writing; I talk about the agony of not writing.
writing people fiction
I cannot say how strongly I object to people using other people's writing as research. Research is non-fiction, especially for horror, fantasy, science fiction. Do not take your research from other people's fiction. Just don't. Laurell K. Hamilton
writing magic literature
One of my rules is never explain. A writer is a lot like a magician, if you explain how the trick works then a lot of the magic turns mundane.
writing people feels
If people would write exactly what I wanted to read I wouldn't feel so compelled to write myself
writing successful trying
Now that I'm being very successful, publishers are trying to mainstream me, but I'm unabashedly genre. It's what I like to read, what I like to write
writing gold garbage
Seventy percent of a first draft is garbage and 30 percent is gold, but you have to write 100 percent to get that 30.
writing effort add
It all adds up; never discount your efforts, because small efforts build big things. One word doesn't make a novel, but one word does begin a novel, and from that small beginning everything else follows. Even if it's just 'The', write something on that blank page.
writing sensual style
My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail
writing color people
I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant, you've got something. Write the whole thing first and then say he's an accountant. That's a very wacky accountant, but so what? Theatricality feeds and challenges the actor, the director, and the designers. Lanford Wilson
writing worst best-poem
For my best poems were all written when I felt the worst. When I was happy, I didn't write anything. Langston Hughes
writing character details
In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies. L. Sprague de Camp
writing history people
The historian ought to be an educated person, writing for other educated people about something which they don't know about, but wish to know about in a way that they can understand. John Keegan
writing people wonder
How do you prevent people from doing inappropriate things? We can write laws. But at the end of the day, I actually wonder what the board was doing. John Kasich
writing hands talking
Talking of Pleasure, this moment I was writing with one hand, and with the other holding to my Mouth a Nectarine - how good how fine. It went down all pulpy, slushy, oozy, all its delicious embonpoint melted down my throat like a large, beatified Strawberry. John Keats
writing animal thinking
I myself am pursuing the same instinctive course as the veriest human animal you can think of I am, however young, writing at random straining at particles of light in the midst of a great darkness without knowing the bearing of any one assertion, of any one opinion. Yet may I not in this be free from sin?
writing comfort clean
All clean and comfortable I sit down to write.