Top Writing Quotes Collection - Page 33
Discover a curated collection of Writing quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category. Page 33 provides more Writing quotes.
To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel.Collection: Writing
Read something that YOU want to read, not something that you feel compelled to read.Collection: Writing
Sometimes the most exciting journey you can make is through your own imagination.Collection: Writing
Try writing...a list, a letter, a journal, a novel, a declaration.Collection: Writing
Say a thing well and it will be remembered-and so too will you.Collection: Writing
I can't read or write music. When I want to remember something, I try to remember all the keys on the piano. Which is what I still do. I put the numbers on the keys. And that's got to become music again.Collection: Writing
I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.Collection: Writing
Modern literary theory sees a similarity between walking and writing that I find persuasive: words inscribe a text in the same way that a walk inscribes space. In The practicse of Everyday Life, Michel de Certeau writes, 'The act of walking is a process of appropriation of the topographical system on the part of the pedestrian; it is a special acting-out of the place...and it implies relations among differentiated positions.' I think this is a fancy way of saying that writing is one way of making the world our own, and that walking is another.Collection: Writing
I hope that the feeling of making poetry is not confined to the people who write it down. There is no luxury like it, and I hope we all share it. ... I am sure that the great glory of poetry in one's heart does not wait on achievement.Collection: Writing
Nearly everybody in San Francisco writes poetry. Few San Franciscans would admit this, but most of them would rather like to have their productions accidentally discovered.Collection: Writing
Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.Collection: Writing
A lot of writers ... sit in a log cabin by the lake and put their feet up by the fire in the silence and write. If you can have that that's all very well, but the true writer will learn to write anywhere -- even in prison.Collection: Writing
Buffon said unreservedly, "Genius is simply patience carried to the extreme." To those who asked how he achieved fame he replied: "By spending forty years of my life bent over my writing desk."Collection: Writing
Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.Collection: Writing
Bring forward what is true, Write it so that it is clear, Defend it to your last breath!Collection: Writing
I try not to focus on what people say too much because there's nothing I can do about it. All I can do is focus on staying true to the style of music I write and sing because that is the only way it's going to come off as honest.Collection: Writing
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.Collection: Writing
I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.Collection: Writing
What we call the freedom of the individual is not just the luxury of one intellectual to write what he likes to write but his being a voice which can speak for those who are silent.Collection: Writing
Sometimes when I am writing, I am aware of a rhythm, a dance, a fury, which is as yet empty of words.Collection: Writing
Speak up when you're supposed to, as opposed to trying to write prescriptions for the way people should live.Collection: Writing
Most playwrights go wrong on the fifth word. When you start a play and you type 'Act one, scene one,' your writing is every bit as good as Arthur Miller or Eugene O'Neill or anyone. It's that fifth word where amateurs start to go wrong.Collection: Writing
Often I'll find clues to where the story might go by figuring out where the characters would rather not go.Collection: Writing
Never be sincere - sincerity is the death of writing.Collection: Writing
The secret of good writing is telling the truth.Collection: Writing
Writing is not about self-expression; it is about putting words on paper.Collection: Writing
We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats - and have sought its acquaintance wherever we could find it. And in this growing intimacy we have become increasingly impressed with the influence that this and other infectious diseases, which span - in their protoplasmic continuities - the entire history of mankind, have had upon the fates of men.Collection: Writing
Conversation is the legs on which thought walks; and writing, the wings by which it flies.Collection: Writing
Write to one person, not a million.Collection: Writing
Don't ever let anyone else write your story for you.Collection: Writing
Our rule was that we [with Kate DiCamillo] would write everything together, literally every word.Collection: Writing
It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does.Collection: Writing
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits.Collection: Writing
Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.Collection: Writing
If you let conditions stop you from working, they'll always stop you.Collection: Writing
Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write.Collection: Writing
The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.Collection: Writing
Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.Collection: Writing
I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.Collection: Writing
Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.Collection: Writing
I always laugh the hardest at the stuff you see in day-to-day life. Its great when somebody can tell a joke that really makes you laugh hard, but to see some kind of personal interaction that no one could write is so good. Those are always the things that make me laugh.Collection: Writing
I started writing hits the day I sold my piano.Collection: Writing
Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break inCollection: Writing
I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for printCollection: Writing
The role of Jews who write in both the Jewish and [American] general press is to defend Israel.Collection: Writing
He who writes poetry is not a poet. He whose poetry has become his life, and who has made his life his poetry - it is he who is a poet.Collection: Writing
Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers face but two alternatives: write English, or write gobbledygook.Collection: Writing
I don't like to be challenged in the way that often happens, where somebody writes something and then you, as an actor, are expected to really make it up in your imagination. That's not really an ideal way of working.Collection: Writing
Microsoft fears Intel is eventually going to create its own operating system and optimize its chips for its own OS, cutting Microsoft out of the picture. Kind of like what Microsoft allegedly does to people who write applications for Windows.Collection: Writing