Writing Quotes - Page 340

Blanche is written with a terrible authority, the authority that comes from artistic necessity when the writer is compelled to write by his demon, rather than by his agent or promoter.

As a poet or a novelist or a painter, you are pushing yourself all the time, always looking for a new way to approach something, challenging yourself and never, never trying to write the same book twice.

Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.

When you're No. 1 or No. 300, you still get to play and write the songs.

So I find the fascination, the love, the incredible skill and everything to do with acting, writing plays, and doing them, just darling. Lovely. I love actors.

Why do I write? I write because I have to, because it is all I know, because it is my truth, because I am compelled, because I am driven to make the world acknowledge that women like me exist, and we possess a dangerous wisdom.

I, myself, write to change my life, to make it come out the way I want it to. But other people write for other reasons: to see more closely what it is they are thinking about, what they may be afraid of. Sometimes writers write to solve a problem, to answer their own question. All these reasons are good reasons. And that is the most important thing I'll ever tell you. Maybe it is the most important thing you'll ever hear. Ever.

Writing is so hard. And then, sometimes, it is so bewilderingly easy.

No memoirists writes for long without experiencing an unsettling disbelief about the reliability of memory, a hunch that memory is not, after all, just memory.

Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing something wonderful.

Reading is the most rewarding form of exile and the most necessary discipline for novelists who burn with the ambition to get better.

Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography.

The Road To Serfdom was written during WWII, and basically it's an anti-Nazi, anti-communist thing, but also it's an anti-Conservative and anti-Labor-party thing aimed at the British. He was an Austrian, writing in Britain. And I feel like now, I guess, everybody pays lip service to libertarian - and, indeed, many conservative - ideas, and yet they keep moving forward with an increasingly bureaucratic state. It shows itself in all sorts of little ways.

There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.

I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, 'Let's just write some scary music.'

Acting is more fun than writing. Writing is harder, more like having a term paper.

I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad.

When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.

I learned to separate the story from the writing, probably the most important thing that any storyteller has to learn-that there are a thousand right ways to tell a story, and ten million wrong ones, and you're a lot more likely to find one of the latter than the former your first time through the tale.

For some men, nothing is Written unless they Write it.

What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life.

How hard it is to make your thoughts look anything but imbecile fools when you paint them with ink on paper.