Re Writing Quotes
Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember.
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.
That's the wonderful thing about writing, you can take things you haven't done properly in your own life and make it better in fiction.
If you're a woman writer, sometime, somewhere, you will be asked: Do you think of yourself as a writer first, or as a woman first? Look out. Whoever asks this hates and fears both writing and women.
The reader cannot see into your heart. He will know only what you tell him. Make the blind see your words. Make the hard-hearted feel. Make the deaf hear.
Make the verses flow together. If a following verse has nothing to do with the previous, you may lose our listener/reader. You want a smooth flow to hear or read, and it's easier to memorize.
Writing... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are.
The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.
I have long since decided if you wait for the perfect time to write, you'll never write. There is no time that isn't flawed somehow.
A non-event ... is better to write about than an event, because with a non-event you can make up the meaning yourself, it means whatever you say it means.
I spent much of my childhood in northern Quebec, and often there was no radio, no television - there wasn't a lot to entertain us. When it rained, I stayed inside reading, writing, drawing.
It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.
My brother and I were both teenage writers, and he was, I have to say, better than I was, but he went into science, and I went into writing.
It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots.
Your goal is to write that masterpiece. Yello's masterpiece was "Oh Yeah." Whatever I say about the song doesn't matter, because it has a huge impact on how we remember the era.
I really (became) very independent. I was start(ed) to write one-woman shows and mak(e) films and to me I think I really felt like my choice (was) more important than any kind of career goal.
To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.
A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.
Sometimes I can spend as long revising a manuscript as I spent writing it in the first place.
Try not to become disappointed if someone doesn't like a story you've written. Stick up for your ideas, but listen to what other people say, too. They might have good advice.
I was able to work out all sorts of attitudes to style and event and character, all of which affected the way I came to think about my own writing. I believe that all good writers are original.
I spend my whole life trying to put up a front to prevent people from seeing certain parts of me. Weirdly, when I go to write, I feel like I have to expose it, almost compulsively.
I think thats the most important job of a novelist - to bring authority to their writing.
I think one of the good things about writing novels is that you always start from scratch.
Yippee. I’ve been promoted from fire lighter to delivery boy. I’ll write a letter home to Mother. She’ll be so pleased.” --Leif
I don't go out much. I'm also not promiscuous. If I went out with everyone the press said I did, I'd never have time to write or sing.
I used to write in bed, starting when I woke up. I believe that creative work comes from our subconscious mind, so I try to keep the gap between sleep and writing as minimal as possible.
Every day I wake up afraid that I won't be able to write, that today is the day it has left me.
I knew it, I just knew it! The person who had the job of writing my life's dialogue used to work on a very low budget soap opera.
I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor.
What I write could only be called poetry because there is no other category to put it.
Fanaticism? No. Writing is exciting and baseball is like writing. You can never tell with either how it will go.
Because music is a language unto itself, when I'm writing, I need silence. I need to hear the music and the rhythms of the words inside my thoughts.
Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.
I am a student of universal spiritual principles, and I read theology and spiritual writings, so my grasp of basic spiritual principles is fairly good.
I just want to write books or give talks which, if I were in the audience or I were the reader, I would appreciate.
The pictures feel as essential to me as the text. I was always interested in including pictures with writing.
I do not like to employ secretaries that have more wit than myself. I am afraid to make them write all my nonsense.
