Writing Quotes - Page 116

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.

Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.

I think when you're writing songs, it's impossible to not draw on personal experiences, whether it be traveling or girls, or anything.

I heard some stuff recently from Julian Casablancas, and his solo stuff is amazing. If I could write with anyone, it would be him.

The only quality needed for an MP is the ability to write a good letter.

I use very little red. I use blue, yellow, a little green, but especially... black, white and grey. There is a certain need in me for communication with human beings. Black and white is writing.

Writing history is like drinking an ocean and pissing a cupful.

To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.

I know of no other practise which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects. There is a great potential within each of us to go on learning. Regardless of our age, unless there be serious illness, we can read, study, drink in the writings of wonderful men and women. It is never too late to learn.

By writing I put order in the world, give it a handle so I can grasp it.

I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies.

There has never been a greater illusion than fear. Fear exists only whilst you believe in it - whilst you fear it. So...stop believing, stop fearing. Set up a shadow inventory, write down all your fears and set out on your warrior path. Make this your life purpose and gold will be smelt from your terror.

Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

It is quite beneath the dignity of a person holding a Bachelor of Arts degree to engage in such a vulgar occupation as the writing of novels.

The United States has made a massive effort since the end of the Second World War to secure the dominance of its films in foreign markets - an achievement generally pushed home politically, by writing clauses into various treaties and aid packages.

Writing is a deeper sleep than death. Just as one wouldn't pull a corpse from its grave, I can't be dragged from my desk at night.

I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.

It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn't advance the story.

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publications.

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

I myself have read the writings and teachings of the heretics, polluting my soul for a while with their abominable notions, though deriving this benefit: I was able to refute them for myself and loathe them even more.

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.