Quotes about writing
writing thinking long
I am furious at all the letters to answer, when all I want to do is think and write poems. ... I long for open time, with no obligations except toward the inner world and what is going on there. May Sarton
writing letters guilty
And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the times when an enormous amount of living is going on, one can't.
writing making-love alive
I feel more alive when I'm writing than I do at any other time--except maybe when I'm making love.
writing able world
I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.
writing thinking purpose
I have written every poem, every novel, for the same purpose-to find out what I think, to know where I stand.
writing written universal
I write poems, have always written them, to transcend the painfully personal and reach the universal.
writing rainy-day support
I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament I have never learned to use as it could be used, thrown off by a word, a glance, a rainy day, or one drink too many. My need to be alone is balanced against my fear of what will happen when suddenly I enter the huge empty silence if I cannot find support there. I go up to Heaven and down to Hell in an hour, and keep alive only by imposing upon myself inexorable routines. I write too many letters and too few poems.
writing fifteen enough
Anyone who is going to be a writer knows enough at fifteen to write several novels.
writing hard-times different
Every story I write is different. Some are hard. Some aren't. 'Chronicle' was tremendously easy. I have a hard time comparing my process on different things, but I will say this: The more you write, the better you get at it. That's one of the few things that's markedly true. Max Landis
writing artist defining
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. Max Eastman
writing phones needs
I literally have over a thousand emails in my inbox that need to be returned. I'm sure all of my friends and certain family members are like, 'Oh, look who got nominated for an Emmy and doesn't want to write me an email back!' I need a good few hours to just sit and get on the phone. Max Greenfield
writing firsts lines
If you criticize what you’re doing too early you’ll never write the first line. Max Frisch
writing culture virtue
Whatever (its) virtues, (the) writing explores the culture of work but marginalizes work itself. Maureen Corrigan
writing limits possibility
The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes. Maurice Blanchot
writing order echoes
To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
writing men solitude
A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes.
writing adrenaline
It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write. Maureen Dowd
writing
Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.
writing another-woman ifs
As a woman, I know that if I write about another woman, it will be perceived as a catfight.
writing thinking black
When I need to work up my nerve to write a tough column, I try to think of myself as Emma Peel in a black leather catsuit.
writing people way
When I worked in theater, I was always writing things on Post-it Notes and sticking them on screens or desks. Twitter has given me a way of continuing to post those notes, only a lot of other people see them, too. Maureen Johnson
writing careers two
Writing is one of the few careers for which you essentially train yourself, the other two major ones being juggling and pickpocketing.
writing thinking acting
And writing I think is a gift that you have, the same as acting, in a way. Matthew Vaughn
writing bored people
Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time. Matthew Tobin Anderson
writing thinking circles
I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one detail in the scene I'm about to write that I'm really excited about writing. Until I can come up with that one detail, I pace.
writing
That was one of the key things - when you asked the story about the writing of the story - one of the things we wanted to make sure was that it grew out of. Matt Reeves
writing artist
When there's writing that you really trust, it's very freeing as an artist. Matt LeBlanc
writing knack way
Comedy is just to me, maybe it's a natural knack, if I can see where the joke is in the writing and I can see where the setup is and I can tell this is the way to make it.
writing opportunity thinking
Historically, WordPress has been purely focused on the writing side. However, were thinking about mobile completely differently, and I think theres a big opportunity to take the community of creators that loves WordPress and deliver an audience to the amazing things theyre making. Matt Mullenweg
writing people facts
I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write. Maya Rudolph
writing goal choices
I've never set out to write a funny movie or be a funny comedian as a woman. I am a woman. I don't really have a choice in the matter. My goal is just to be funny.
writing giving trying
I begin by imagining an artwork verbally. I try to describe in writing what the project is, what it is trying to do. I need to understand the artwork without giving it a specific materiality or solid form. Maya Lin
writing ifs
And if you don't live, you have nothing to write about. Maynard James Keenan