Quotes about writing
writing flow goodness
Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows. Guy Kawasaki
writing stories
I've been taking longer to write stories lately.
writing long gaps
I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.
writing things-change interest
I don't have any structured grand plan; I just intend to keep writing about the things that interest me-some of which change, some of which don't.
writing creative challenges
I enjoy writing the same way I enjoy doing standup. Part of the challenge is being creative and making it work no matter what the constraints. Greg Fitzsimmons
writing novel screenplays
I set out to write a screenplay but, since my early 20s, had dreamed of writing a novel. Graeme Simsion
writing jokes
I'm really bad at writing jokes. Glenn Howerton
writing want back-to-work
I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work. Glenn Frey
writing scripts emotion
I write to music, so every script I have has its own playlist. Music just opens me up to the emotions that I'm writing. Gina Prince-Bythewood
writing character perfect
People often ask me if I feel discriminated against as a black female director. I don't. I'm actually offered a ton of stuff. But I only want to direct what I write. And I prefer to focus on black female characters. What's most important to me is to put characters up onscreen who are not perfect, but who are human and flawed.
writing people influence
The things I write are combinations of all of the people that have been influences to me. Gerry Beckley
writing years facts
Actually, it is a fact that I've been doing more writing than playing in recent years. Gerry Mulligan
writing individualism currents
When we've finished the current tour I'm going to go back to Italy and see if I can do some more writing.
writing water littles
I'm a bit like a sponge. When I'm not writing I absorb life like water. When I write I squeeze the sponge a little - and out comes, not water but ink. Georges Simenon
writing simple earth
I have always tried to write in a simple way, using down-to-earth and not abstract words.
writing brain
I write fast, because I have not the brains to write slow.
writing thinking artist
Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.
writing somewhere-else pages
When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else. Gerald Brenan
writing age literature
The only test of work of literature is that it shall please other ages than its own.
writing average differences
The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectively—intuitively—the camera can write poetry. Harry Callahan
writing cameras subjects
If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.
writing men thinking
Writers spend all their time preoccupied with just the things that their fellow men and women spend their time trying to avoid thinking about. ... It takes great courage to look where you have to look, which is in yourself, in your experience, in your relationship with fellow beings, your relationship to the earth, to the spirit or to the first cause—to look at them and make something of them. Harry Crews
writing kids guitar
Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed me But your youth is no handicap it's what makes you thirsty Harry Chapin
writing tragedy terrible
There's some things I can't write about, just terrible personal tragedies. Harry Connick, Jr.
writing orchestra stuff
Not everybody gets to record with an orchestra, and not everybody that gets to record with an orchestra gets to write all their own stuff.
writing mps political
The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter. Harold MacMillan
writing challenges goes-on
I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it and experiencing the challenge. Gwendolyn Brooks
writing people looks
I've always thought of myself as a reporter. When people ask why I don't stop writing, I say, `Look at what's happening in this world. Every day there's something exciting or disturbing to write about.’ With all that's going on, how could I stop?
writing thinking world
When I start writing a poem, I don't think about models or about what anybody else in the world has done.
writing agony delicious
Writing is a delicious agony.
writing people feel-good
I was a different person before I started to write. When I realized I could be a songwriter and that people would listen - that was when I started feeling good in my life. Gwen Stefani
writing ukulele thinker
For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker. Gregg Easterbrook
writing letters difficult
The longer one doesn't write, the more difficult it is to communicate. Indira Gandhi