Quotes about writing
writing inspire
What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling. Tea Obreht
writing solitude isolation
It takes isolation and solitude for me to write. Taylor Momsen
writing thinking serious
Everyone likes to stereotype things or write them off as not that serious or "this is just a phase," especially when you're that young. The music was never a phase, but the wardrobe was certainly a phase, so I think that may have overshadowed the music in the beginning, for sure. I was so outrageous.
writing trying way
I try to write in a way where the lyrics have many meanings and you won't really know what's behind it.
writing knows
I write about what I know, what I live, what I observe.
writing cards paper
I love writing thank-you notes. There's something very nostalgic to me about the feel of a card and putting pen to paper. How many times in our lives are we required to put pen to paper anymore? Taylor Swift
writing labels records
I've made sure that in any situation and with any record label, I'm allowed to write my own music.
writing dresses chandeliers
I still love writing in my journal and wearing sparkly dresses and looking at old chandeliers.
writing want records
When I'm writing a record, I kind of don't listen to much music. Just because I want to be inspired solely on the emotion; just based on how it feels.
writing temptation style
Resist the temptation to try to use dazzling style to conceal weakness of substance.
writing men dust
If man merely sat back and thought about his impending termination, and his terrifying insignificance and aloneness in the cosmos, he would surely go mad, or succumb to a numbing sense of futility. Why, he might ask himself, should he bother to write a great symphony, or strive to make a living, or even to love another, when he is no more than a momentary microbe on a dust mote whirling through the unimaginable immensity of space? ... Stanley Kubrick
writing practice forever
Know what makes a sentence more than a random list, practice constructing sentences and explaining what you have done, and you will know how to make sentences forever and you will know too when what you are writing doesn't make the grade because it has degenerated into a mere pile of discrete items. Stanley Fish
writing practice time-zones
Just as you can practice three - word sentences or sentences that travel across time zones, so can you practice writing sentences that breathe unshakable conviction.
writing order people
People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.
writing musical may
It may sound paradoxical, but verbal fluency is the product of many hours spent writing about nothing, just as musical fluency is the product of hours spent repeating scales.
writing assessment world
What we know of the world comes to us through words, or, to look at it from the other direction, when we write a sentence, we create a world, which is not the world, but the world as is appears within a dimension of assessment.
writing trying firsts
The first thing to ask when writing a sentence is 'What am I trying to do?'
writing ears pages
...few young poets [are] testing their poems against the ear. They're writing for the page, and the page, let me tell you, is a cold bed. Stanley Kunitz
writing tasks firsts
The first task of the poet is to create the person who will write the poems.
writing mind ears
The ear writes my poems, not the mind.
writing poetry today
Poetry today is easier to write but harder to remember.
writing ends
End with an image and don't explain.
writing men symphony
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
writing thinking always-trying
I think I'm always trying to challenge myself. I'm definitely going a new direction and trying to write more concisely, but that's the toughest part for me and I definitely think I'm growing in that way, which feels exciting. Stacey King
writing order justice
And if something should be found, particularly in the first part of the dissertation, that one is generally not accustomed to come across in scholarly writings, the reader must forgive my jocundity, just as I, in order to lighten the burden, sometimes sing at my work. Soren Kierkegaard
writing needs opaque
When my own writing needs a perk, I open Zukofsky and read from "A" - particularly sections "22" and "23." It can be opaque, but I love the intensity. Stephen Vincent Benet
writing thinking numbers
I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium.
writing fighting world
Most of the time I'm not really attracted to writing that's focused on filling and fighting it out within a well-defined container. I like work that gets out in the world and lets the world shape the poem.
writing phrases may
A phrase may come to me as I am walking, and, once I write it down in my journal, the rest of the poem will unravel from that catalyst.
writing meditation-practice i-have-learned
Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unfold.
writing political everyday
At first I was blogging everyday, but I don't do that anymore. It varies; sometimes I'll write these little essays and other times political commentaries. Other times it'll just be new work that I'm doing.
writing ideas family-and-friends
I always write things that entertain me, and one of the things that I find really enjoyable to explore is the idea of love. I like looking at my own life and my friends and family and how love changes who you are. It fascinates me. Stephenie Meyer
writing happy-endings
The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about. Tammy Wynette