Quotes about writing
writing thinking thinker
Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them. Friedrich Nietzsche
writing imagination might
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. Franklin P. Adams
writing speech abbreviations
Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing. Franz Grillparzer
writing imagination tragedy
I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.
writing land who-i-am
Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
writing law people
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Frank Zappa
writing oil needs
The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do now know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only know that they are not being met. If you want to find out the circumference of an oil drop, you can use lycopodium powder. That’s what I’ll find. A tub of lycopodium powder, and I will sprinkle it on to my needs and find out how large they are. Then when I meet someone I can write up the experiment and show them what they have to take on. Jeanette Winterson
writing self literature
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
writing written
Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
writing fables break
I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
writing cutting thinking
I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like the way the Arabs weave rugs. They don't stop. They just cut them off at a certain spot on the loom. There is no particular beginning or end.
writing discipline creative
Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
writing thinking years
I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.
writing self arrogant
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it's not arrogant.
writing goes-on
I go on writing so that I will always have something to read.
writing fiction stories
Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
writing thinking way
The Anglo-American tradition is much more linear than the European tradition. If you think about writers like Borges, Calvino, Perec or Marquez, they're not bound in the same sort of way. They don't come out of the classic 19th-century novel, which is where all the problems start. 19th-century novels are fabulous and we should all read them, but we shouldn't write them.
writing two kind
...there are two kinds of writing: the one you write and the one that writes you.
writing band titles
For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles. Jim Capaldi
writing two feelings
If you have words and want to write music for them, the words hit you with a feeling which you can't really describe in words, and so what you do is to put music to them and in this way you make contact with the words, through the musical thing. It happens when two feelings come together and they do something together and they compliment each other.
writing thinking sweat
After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.
writing years hundred
Charles Dickens was an incredibly cinematic writer. He wrote this one hundred years before there were movies. He writes very thematically. It is amazing. Jim Carrey
writing knowing goal
Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself. Jewel
writing telling-the-truth vulnerable
I personally feel the most vulnerable when I write. That's where I learned to tell the truth when I was young.
writing
I don't exist without writing.
writing feelings secret
Writing with privacy is paramount. You must feel free to admit to yourself your deepest, darkest secrets and true feelings.
writing people fiction
That's why I write fiction, because I want to write these stories that people will read and find universal. Jesmyn Ward
writing average watches
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day. Jerzy Kosinski
writing attention language
I suppress in my prose any language which calls attention to itself.
writing islands video
If somebody writes a review of a dry cleaner, that piece of content is not wildly viral. It's not like a viral video that can spread across the world in a matter of minutes, so as a result, each market is almost an island unto itself. Jeremy Stoppelman
writing apollo culture
Apollo without Dionysus may indeed be a well-informed, good citizen but he's a dull fellow. He may even be 'cultured,' in the sense one often gets from traditionalist writings in education. . . . But without Dionysus he will never make and remake a culture. Jerome Bruner
writing hills problem
I had a problem with cops pulling me over all the time for speeding. When I was doing Hill Street Blues, the cops said how much they loved the show as they were writing me up; meanwhile my insurance went through the roof. Jennifer Tilly
writing being-in-love luxury
Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury! Jennifer Stone