Quotes about writing
writing grades memoir
I had a very high-grade publisher tell me I was incapable of writing a memoir. Mitch Albom
writing tennis balls
Anything over-handed, I do left-handed. Like throwing a ball or serving in tennis. Otherwise, right-handed, like writing and shaving. Mike Weir
writing pages sometimes
Sometimes when you write something on the page, it can seem very funny, but when you act it out - and this happens to me a lot, actually - the melancholy of the situation becomes more front and center. Mike White
writing want enjoy
For me, writing is a solitary thing and a personal thing. And it's weird, because when you make something that requires money and collaborators, you have to talk about them. I don't enjoy that part of it. I still want to keep it to myself.
writing plot feels
I feel like I know how to write plot.
writing trying stuff
I guess I'm trying to write stuff that I, as a viewer, would connect to.
writing hands giving
But do not give it to a lawyer's clerk to write, for they use a legal hand that Satan himself will not understand. Miguel de Cervantes
writing should-have epic-poems
It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.
writing action born
For me alone Don Quixote was born and I for him. His was the power of action, mine of writing.
writing soul language
The pen is the language of the soul; as the concepts that in it are generated, such will be its writings.
writing soul tongue
The pen is the tongue of the soul; as are the thoughts engendered there, so will be the things written.
writing mind tongue
The pen is the tongue of the mind.
writing film ifs
I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing. Neil Jordan
writing two years
I took two years away from making films to write a novel.
writing fans ships
I communicate with fans on Twitter. I enjoy the ability to impulsively write something and ship it out to the fans and fellow tweeters out there. Neil Diamond
writing thinking years
My writing is different. I think it's better. I think it's deeper. But, strangely enough, it covers a lot of the old ground. Maybe it says it in a more sophisticated way ... but I [have written] about basically the same subjects over the years.
writing wings ideas
I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.
writing heart light
I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I write. When I put the drill bit inside my heart, sometimes I come up with something light and frothy, sometimes with something deep and painful, but it's great to connect with the audience.
writing dying
When I am not writing, I'm dying.
writing mystery knows
There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.
writing people pluto
Why can't Pluto be a planet? Some people like Pluto. And if it doesn't exist then they don't have a favorite planet. Right? Please write back but not in cursive because I can't read cursive. Neil deGrasse Tyson
writing perspective trying
All tweets are tasty. Any tweet anybody writes is tasty. So, I try to have each tweet not simply be informative, but have some outlook, some perspective that you might not otherwise had.
writing sea people
Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms.
writing dark thinking
She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then she stares at the paper, unable to think of anything else. Eventually it begins to get dark. Neil Gaiman
writing laughing scary
A good writer should be able to write comedic work that made you laugh, and scary stuff that made you scared, and fantasy or science fiction that imbued you with a sense of wonder, and mainstream journalism that gave you clear and concise information in a way that you wanted it.
writing people would-be
I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it.
writing play musical
I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.
writing fiction stuff
I started out writing much more science fictiony stuff and writing about science fiction.
writing worry people
Don't worry about trying to develop a style. Style is what you can't help doing. If you write enough, you draw enough, you'll have a style, whether you want it or not. Don't worry about whether you're "commercial". Tell your own stories, draw your own pictures. Let other people follow you.
writing ideas mad
Sometimes an old idea gets relegated to the back of the line in the mad delight of a new idea, one you've never had before, and that you write fast in the thrill of the new. No rules. Just stories, and you tell as many of them as you can.
writing heart play
Do the stuff only you can do. The urge starting out is to copy, and that's not a bad thing. Most of us find our voices only after we sound like a lot of other people. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you: your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can. The moment that you feel that, just possibly, you're walking down the street naked, exposing too much of your heart and your mind and what exists on the inside, showing too much of yourself, that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.
writing night nine
One word after another. That's the only way that novels get written and, short of elves coming in the night and turning your jumbled notes into Chapter Nine, it's the only way to do it. So keep on keeping on. Write another word and then another.
writing easier novel
The search for the word gets no easier but nobody else is going to write your novel for you.