Quotes about writing
writing lovers blind
A blind lover, don't know what I love till I write it out Michael Ondaatje
writing would-be
To write about someone like myself would be very limiting.
writing world kind
When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world.
writing ideas no-idea
Right now, I have no idea what I will write or if I will write again.
writing want opinion
You don't want to write your own opinion, you don't want to just represent yourself, but represent yourself through someone else.
writing god-knows has-beens
I see myself as someone who's been saved by writing. God knows what I would have been, become or how I would have ended up without it.
writing bored stories
I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out.
writing stories plot
When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story is sort of discovered as I write it.
writing views perception
It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.
writing thinking hands
I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the reader will involve himself or herself.
writing character long
One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction. Michael Lindsay-Hogg
writing over-you credit
I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody. Michael McKean
writing blood two
I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for 'True Blood' and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time. Michael McMillian
writing government independence
In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after. Michael McCaul
writing past thinking
History is what we read, write and think about the past. Michael Howard
writing acting lessons
I took acting lessons when I was 19, 20, and I had my writing. Michael Ironside
writing giving long
I don't have any desire to retire in the sense of not doing anything. As long as the Lord gives me strength I want to keep writing and keep preaching. Max Lucado
writing people week
We get a lot of unsolicited manuscripts here. Im not even a publisher, but we get several a week. I dont read them, but I do glance through some of them, and some people dont need to be writing, they have something else.
writing exercise interesting
All I did was collect a few of the questions I've been asked through the years, write up a brief response and put them in this publication. As a pastor, you get asked questions and receive emails. Many of them I had answered, but just in conversation. So we kind of re-crafted the question and answered it. It turned out to be an interesting exercise. I hope it's encouraging for people.
writing kind backwards
I never told anybody I wanted to write, I kind of fell into it backwards.
writing parent lord
I was never really lead by [my parents] and didnt sense any leading from the Lord to go into writing.
writing people remember
I remember enjoying writing those, theres two clues of a gift: you enjoy doing it and people enjoy you doing it.
writing godly people
My parents, they were good, godly people, but they never said, You need to write.
writing giving people
Listen carefully to the feedback your readers give you. Dont write unless people want you to write, a lot of people write just because they want to write.
writing people singing
If you get a lot of good feedback from people, thats a sign that you have a strength or gift in writing, if not ... try singing.
writing guy other-guys
I co-pastor now, so I preach six months, then another guy preaches six months. So that's really why I'm preparing for January, because I'll finish in June; then I'll be writing and doing other projects for the rest of the year.
writing yesterday worry
Write today's worries in sand. Chisel yesterday's victories in stone.
writing matter way
I write every day as a matter of course It is not a burden. It is the way I live. Mavis Gallant
writing garden house
A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.
writing affair love-affair
Writing is like a love affair: the beginning is the best part.
writing way punctuation
I write in the most distressingly slow way in terms of punctuation and grammar. Maurice Saatchi
writing worry noses
I'm writing a poem right now about a nose. I've always wanted to write a poem about a nose. But it's a ludicrous subject. That's why, when I was younger, I was afraid of [writing] something that didn't make a lot of sense. But now I'm not. I have nothing to worry about. It doesn't matter. Maurice Sendak
writing artist imagination
As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it. No story is worth the writing, no picture worth the making, if it’s not the work of the imagination.