Quotes about writing
writing school play
When Indian musicians play a raga it's very restrictive. But, in a way these restraints are essential to liberate yourself through them, if that makes sense. I'm very much of this school of rhythm, it's the direction I'm drawn in when I'm writing and improvising. John McLaughlin
writing stories want
When I finally write the first sentence, I want to know everything that happens, so that I am not inventing the story as I write it - rather, I am remembering a story that has already happened. John Irving
writing made uncomfortable
I would never write something that made me uncomfortable. Im not sure its even possible. Lori Foster
writing ears way
Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship. Lord Byron
writing thinking may
At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth. Mahatma Gandhi
writing people listening
I get a lot of people complaining about my ambiguity, often in cases which there is nothing ambigous at all. As far as I can see, people read it when they were half stoned and listening to the TV. Then they come back and say gee, it's impossible to figure out what's going on in a story. Gene Wolfe
writing names composer
I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer. Gavin Bryars
writing century 19th-century
Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.
writing college example
For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work Gay Talese
writing junkie
I'm like a junkie for writing. Gavin DeGraw
writing discovery feelings
When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings. Gail Carson Levine
writing people narrative
Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative. Gail Collins
writing people perfect
The most important thing in writing process is the vibe cause if you on a roll, if you feel it you just feel it. And it's all about the atmosphere, the people around you, you know, everything. You got to be clear headed in that and have a perfect atmosphere. French Montana
writing imagination lows
Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like. Haruki Murakami
writing swans ugly-duckling
I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind of an ugly duckling. Always the duckling, never the swan.
writing stories serious
I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much ... But when I write, I write weird. That's very strange. When I'm getting more and more serious, I'm getting more and more weird.
writing trying stories
In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.
writing style enjoy
I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.
writing gun stories
According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning what?" "Meaning, don't bring unnecessary props into a story. If a pistol appears, it has to be fired at some point. Chekhov liked to write stories that did away with all useless ornamentation.
writing past history
Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
writing mind obscurity
He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.
writing waiting records
I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great. Joe Walsh
writing thinking cinema
I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema. Joe Wright
writing way orderly
I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not. Joanna Trollope
writing care want
If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer. Joanne Harris
writing ideas plot
Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction. Jo Nesbo
writing trying stories
All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led.
writing drawing long
I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that. James Thurber
writing joy four
I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It's very disciplined, yes, but it's joy for me. James Patterson
writing thinking ideas
If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing. Elmore Leonard
writing needs information
All the information you need can be given in dialogue.
writing thinking needs
have a much harder time writing stories than novels. I need the expansiveness of a novel and the propulsive energy it provides. When I think about scene - and when I teach scene writing - I'm thinking about questions. What questions are raised by a scene? What questions are answered? What questions persist from scene to scene to scene? Edan Lepucki
writing play journal
I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives. Heather O'Reilly