Quotes about writing
writing perception musician
Musicians always have music in their heads about their perceptions of the world. Pattie Boyd
writing always-trying stuff
I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing. Patton Oswalt
writing discipline trying
Beyond any role that I ever had, really early on as a stand-up, I would see actors decide to try it and they would bomb miserably. What I realized was that stand-up, acting and writing are all their own disciplines.
writing want rooms
I've hung out in the writer's room a few times, but the fact is we've got such a good writing staff, I don't want to get my peanut butter fingerprints on anything.
writing use deeper
I decided that what I really wanted to do was to make my writing in history deeper, if that's the right word to use. And that is what I did. Peter Gay
writing diaries
Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else. Peter Greenaway
writing paper pens
This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.
writing hands
A hand cannot write on itself.
writing majority internet
It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.
writing eye hands
Film is such an extraordinary rich medium which can handle so many different modes of operation, combining together in the same place all these extraordinary disciplines which may be executed in their own right - music, writing, picture making of all kinds, and I often feel that some filmmakers make films with one eye closed and two hands tied behind their backs.
writing poetry mind
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds. Percy Bysshe Shelley
writing criticism would-be
If certain Critics were as clearsighted as they are malignant, how great would be the benefit to be derived from their writings!
writing years wish
I wish I could spend six years writing one novel. Paullina Simons
writing two knowing
I have a certain sensibility that I bring to my writing that comes from knowing two things: what I as a reader like to read, and what as a writer I am capable of. I know my own limits. I know there are things I cannot do.
writing mind care
You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!
writing thinking memoir
I’m frequently asked why I don’t write my memoirs. I think I have. Pauline Kael
writing differences hands
There is a difference if we see something with a pencil in our hand or without one. Paul Valery
writing men elude-us
Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on the road. Henceforth, we will catch only a fleeting glimpse of it -- in the study of sacred writings, in other human beings, in liturgy, and in communion with strangers. But these moments remain us that our fellow men and women are themselves sacred; there is something about them taht is worthy of absolute reverence, is in the last resort mysterious, and we will always elude us. Karen Armstrong
writing world study
I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live by the Golden Rule. This is what drives my writing. I want to point out this interconnectedness, point out the beauty of the faith in all traditions without exception, show the complexity of the atrocities that we have experienced, and our shared culpability as a species.
writing telling-the-truth reason
You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth. Katharine Hepburn
writing want fiction
I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest. Kate Grenville
writing long desire
Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.
writing want disturbed
If you want to write, you have to be willing to be disturbed. Kate Green
writing important austen
It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding. Karen Joy Fowler
writing true-life type
I write about true-life type things. Karen Kingsbury
writing stories trials
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
writing thinking stories
And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way. Karen Russell
writing trying favorites-things
I really try to write every day. It's hard, but it's my favorite thing to do, so it's usually not too, too hard.
writing thinking secret
It's funny to think about the uncanny reflexively, as an author who is perhaps gradually becoming aware of my own hidden secrets. Accessing that shadowy territory really requires the physical act of writing.
writing self perfection
Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.
writing people ifs
If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say. Justin Sane
writing stuff comedic
I feel more comfortable writing firmly comedic or slightly comedic stuff. Justin Theroux
writing thinking would-be
As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon - there is often a "variorum" edition of the work that presents its variants. I think publishing most other writing that way would be impossible, economically, for publishers, and very ill-advised for authors. Judith Thurman