Quotes about writing
writing genius singularity
What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity, his particular inimitable genius. Alfred Kazin
writing order ideas
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.
writing goodness historian
Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write. Alexander Downer
writing destiny over-you
I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny. Alex Borstein
writing men views
My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing. Alex Campbell
writing bike
I like to read and write and take pictures and bike. Alex D. Linz
writing conservative language
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings. Alex Cox
writing kissing luck
For poets that have had my luck, Seldom write when they can kiss. Alex Comfort
writing contemporary-fiction want
I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read. Alex Flinn
writing perspective scripts
It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there. Alex Garland
writing self people
Show people your stuff, listen carefully to their responses, but ultimately don't value anyone's opinion above your own. Be influenced by writers you dislike as well as writers you like. Read their stuff to figure out what's wrong. Find a balance between the confidence that allows you continue, and the self-critical facility that enables you to improve. Get the balance wrong on either side, and you're screwed.
writing thinking poverty
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. Alden Nowlan
writing people letters
There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time. Alec Baldwin
writing land faces
A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of the land. Aldo Leopold
writing men thinking
I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while chopping, or while deciding what to chop. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land.
writing novel sentiments
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. Aldous Huxley
writing mean buying
I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.
writing second-thoughts my-thoughts
I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.
writing effort unsuccessful
he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular
writing mind persons
Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.
writing ideas knows
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.
writing individuality literature
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
writing ambition men
I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'
writing echoes leaving
The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought. Albert Pike
writing romance novel
If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being. Albert Einstein
writing cookbook ifs
As if a cookbook had anything to do with writing. Alice B. Toklas
writing play france
the French write plays and paint as naturally as we play jazz - it's just a national gift.
writing thinking natural
I don't think it's good to say that you won't do certain things, but I don't necessarily have the natural urge to write. Alia Shawkat
writing starting-over feels
I'm always struck with writing - I constantly feel like I don't know what I'm doing and I'm starting over. Ali Liebegott
writing years twenties
For me writing is so perplexing, because if we were playing ping pong and we weren't writing - twenty years later you'd be just so much better at ping pong and this confidence with ping pong.
writing phones calendars
I never got into using my phone's calendar. It's easier to write in my Tiffany day planner. There's something charming about having a datebook. Ali Larter
writing guitar play
I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing. Alexander Ludwig
writing guitar computer
My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer.