Quotes about writing
writing learning states
one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance. Fay Weldon
writing function dies
Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die. Farley Mowat
writing able goes-on
I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.
writing people capes
I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
writing should
But authors before they write should read. Fanny Burney
writing enjoy written
I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written. Fareed Zakaria
writing america twenties
Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the United States succeeded in its great and historic mission--it globalized the world. But along the way, they might write, it forgot to globalize itself.
writing unhappy might
If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one. Fan Bingbing
writing waiting needs
You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it Faith Ringgold
writing unhappy not-happy
I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not. Fannie Hurst
writing stills ifs
If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer. Fannie Flagg
writing people clarity
And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them. F. L. Lucas
writing brain needs
install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time. Ezra Pound
writing criticism literature
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
writing musical phrases
Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.
writing people empires
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
writing way soap
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
writing expression land
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction.
writing pounds language
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
writing adequate natural
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
writing fundamentals crafts
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
writing secret lap
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
writing schedules hours
I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours. Eve Bunting
writing interesting worry
I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that feels good. Eve Ensler
writing character thinking
I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.
writing passion voice
Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and resistance. There is nothing better than that.
writing exercise self
But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty. Eugenio Montale
writing connections poet
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
writing doe poet
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
writing romantic-love play
[Her] love and tenderness ... gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones. Eugene O'Neill
writing light play
Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.
writing vacation
Writing is my vacation from living.
writing years people
I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that. Francis Ford Coppola