Quotes about writing
writing ego curiosity
To write requires an ego, a belief that what you say matters. Writing also requires an aching curiosity leading you to discover, uncover, what is gnawing at your bones. Terry Tempest Williams
writing speech advertising
I have learned that it is far easier to write a speech about good advertising than it is to write a good ad. Leo Burnett
writing night rest-of-your-life
Being a writer is like having homework every night for the rest of your life. Lawrence Kasdan
writing unseen results
I know I stand visibly onstage, but my function is still unseen, because I rarely see the immediate results of what I am saying or doing or writing. Larry Norman
writing feminist culture
It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When the covers change, that's when culture changes. Lady Gaga
writing
I essentially write for myself. Leon Uris
writing insane lines
Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane.
writing media people
The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors. Joseph Heller
writing i-can ifs
If you can write it, I can be it. Karen Black
writing literature journalist
Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write. Karl Kraus
writing thinking identity
For me, writing is inseparable from thinking. I could say the entire undertaking is a vast cerebral construct against my demons. It's the thing that I love. It's my identity. Kathryn Harrison
writing airports two
If I were to write my title like going through the airport and you have to put down what you do? I would literally write ‘creative genius’ except for two reasons: Sometimes it takes too long to write that and sometimes I spell the word ‘genius’ wrong. The irony. Kanye West
writing school numbers
I'm 45, and I'm still at school, essentially. Even after being assigned to the mission, I had to write a number of exams, with people commenting on my performance. Julie Payette
writing design dancer
I've never been a puppeteer, I conceive and I write and I design and I direct. And not just puppets. I direct actors, I direct dancers, I direct singers, I direct films. I also direct puppeteers. I'm really a theatre maker, but there's not a word for that. Julie Taymor
writing hong-kong stories
When I went to Hong Kong, I knew at once I wanted to write a story set there. Paul Theroux
writing ordinary songwriting
I don't work at being ordinary. Paul McCartney
writing always-trying stuff
I'm always trying out new stuff onstage. That's where I do all my writing. Patton Oswalt
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 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. Peter Greenaway
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! Paullina Simons
writing memoir
You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction. Elizabeth Gilbert
writing
You learn to write by doing it. Madeleine L'Engle
writing doe world
The rule is: the word 'it's' (with apostrophe) stands for 'it is' or 'it has'. If the word does not stand for 'it is' or 'it has' then what you require is 'its'. This is extremely easy to grasp. Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation. No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, 'Good food at it's best', you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave. Lynne Truss
writing people may
You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people. Lucy Maud Montgomery
writing reason-why being-true
one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.
writing humans human-beings
As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you? Jonathan Coe
writing trying dangerous
I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience. Jonathan Carroll
writing voice emotion
When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice. Joyce Carol Oates
writing museums awards
I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off. Kate Atkinson
writing omnipotence feelings
The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence. James L. Brooks
writing journalism selling
Writers are always selling somebody out. Joan Didion
writing color water
When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more like water color.
writing different fiction
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.