Quotes about writing
writing kind enough
If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship. Irwin Shaw
writing giving wife
You must avoid giving hostages to fortune, like getting an expensive wife, an expensive house, and a style of living that never lets you aford the time to take the chance to write what you wish.
writing play reason-why
Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing
writing literature singers
Isaac Singer was born in Poland and doesn't write in English. Still, he's an American.
writing different purpose
Every novelist has a different purpose-and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.
writing finding-yourself nocturnal
Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life
writing hands punishment
An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.
writing film
When working on and writing a film, I'm often more of a sponge than other times, aware of what's going on around me. Ira Sachs
writing tennis baking
Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread. Ion Tiriac
writing creating lucky
If you're not failing all the time, you're not creating a situation where you can get lucky. Ira Glass
writing law aerodynamics
It's hard to make something that's interesting. It's really, really hard. It's like a law of nature, a law of aerodynamics, that anything that's written or anything that's created wants to be mediocre. The natural state of all writing is mediocrity... So what it takes to make anything more than mediocre is such an act of will...
writing
I've always liked new writing. Imelda Staunton
writing fate destiny
It seems to me that the novel is very much alive as a form. Without any question, every epoch has its own forms, and the novel nowadays cannot resemble that of the nineteenth century. In this domain all experiments are justified, and it is better to write something new clumsily than to repeat the old brilliantly. In the nineteenth century, novels dealt with the fate of a person or of a family; this was linked to life in that period. In our time the destinies of people are interwoven. Whether man recognizes it or not, his fate is much more linked to that of many other people than it used to be. Ilya Ehrenburg
writing men too-much
Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write. Jack London
writing unhappy care
Avoid the unhappy ending, the harsh, the brutal, the tragic, the horrible -- if you care to see in print things you write. (In this connection don't do as I do, but do as I say.
writing illustration firsts
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first. Jack Prelutsky
writing important sound
The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.
writing vantage-point different
I love writing, but I stopped because I felt I was more effective approaching filmmaking from a different vantage point. Jack Nicholson
writing thinking young
If you're going to write, write one poem all your life, let nobody read it, and then burn it. This is very young thinking, I confess, but it is the seminal part of my life.
writing class hypocrisy
You can't top that remark for hypocrisy or the setting for irony. It isn't the middle class who write $32,500 checks. Those who do expect something in return. They've been getting it. Jack Kelly
writing loving-life blood
Before I even knew what that half of my family did, I was interested in performing. I remember being seven years old and up on a stage and loving it. I've always adored it. Not just acting, but the whole process of writing and directing movies, everything that has to do with that part of life. Maybe it's in my blood. Jack Huston
writing thinking space
I finish a lot of lyrics while I'm in the water and it's always pretty constructive for me to get out in the water. I'm not actually writing the words down, but I have time to think about words, and doing a lot of surfing usually gives me a little space and peace of mind to finish things up. Jack Johnson
writing meditation silent
Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour. Jack Kerouac
writing judging feelings
Anybody can write, but not everybody invents new forms of writing. Gertrude Stein invented a new form of writing and her imitators are just 'talents.' Hemingway later invented his own form also. The criterion for judging talent or genius is ephemeral, speaking rationally in this world of graphs, but one gets the feeling definitely when a writer of genius amazes him by strokes of force never seen before and yet hauntingly familiar.
writing want what-you-want
If you dont [sic] say what you want, what's the sense of writing?
writing reflection hands
The words are clear as in the reflection of the world on the water. Therefore write the Word at once, everywhere, from now till your hand is paralyzed, for THERE will be your work for GOD, since you can not work for God in other ways, and would not, & don't know how, or bend that way, from habit, & from talent in the use & signification & arrangement of the Word.
writing recollection amazement
Write in recollection and amazement for yourself.
writing mad joy
Keep it kickwriting at all costs too, that is, write only what kicks you and keeps you overtime awake from sheer mad joy.
writing men want
Hell man, I know very well you didn't come to me only to want to become a writer, and after all what do I really know about it except that you've got to stick to it with the energy of a benny addict.
writing shining genius
Geniuses can be scintillating and geniuses can be somber, but it's that inescapable sorrowful depth that shines through-originality.
writing thinking sorrow
Rather, I think one should write, as nearly as possible, as if he were the first person on earth and was humbly and sincerly putting on paper that which he saw and experienced and loved and lost; what his passing thoughts were and his sorrows and desires.
writing details prose
Details are the Life of Prose.
writing dark simple
I have the right ideas, but my words are too... complicated. I need to simplify them, so that people won't get lost in the dark when they see and hear them. I want them to shine like beacons of light in a world of overly complicated darkness. One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.