Writing Quotes - Page 198

I keep thinking about blood, I dream about it. Wake up thinking about it. Pretty soon I'll be writing morbid emo poetry about it.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

I just sort of try to be a good person; try to write music that lifts people and makes me feel good to sing.

I love the writing. I love the idea of typing and seeing it on the computer and printing it out myself and, you know, moving sentences around. I like that.

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

If you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?

I'm addicted to creating and writing.

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

I'm not an extraordinary worker, I'm an extraordinary daydreamer. I exceed all my fantasies-even that of writing.

I was influenced by the Beats because I actually just began to commit adolescence around 1955, when "Howl" and Rebel Without a Cause and a lot of other new things were popping up. (Again I'm trying to give you a finite version of this career.) And then I came under the sway of Wallace Stevens when I was in college and graduate school, and basically set as a life goal the ambition of writing third-rate Wallace Stevens. I thought I would be completely content if I was recognized at some later point in my life as a third-rate Wallace Stevens.

All songs are already perfectly written. It is the writer's job to find it and get it on paper.

Writing a class without its contract would be similar to producing an engineering component (electrical circuit, VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) chip, bridge, engine...) without a spec. No professional engineer would even consider the idea.

It (the dash ) is a comfortable punctuation mark since even the most rigorous critic can seldom claim that any particular example of it is a misuse. Its overuse is its greatest danger, and the writer who can't resist dashes may be suspected of uncoordinated thinking.

People say, "How do you write songs?" I say, "Patience." I may have a track that's hot, but no words. I'll just let it sit for years, because I know they're going to meet. They'll find it.

How thin and insecure is that little beach of white sand we call consciousness. I've always known that in my writing it is the dark troubled sea of which I know nothing, save its presence, that carried me. I've always felt that creating was a fearless and a timid, a despairing and hopeful, launching out into that unknown.

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

It's easy to write one's memoirs when one has a terrible memory.

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.

Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!

If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses dont go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

Anything John Stott says is worth listening to. Anything he writes is worth reading. Basic Christianity is not only a classic must-read for every believer; it is truly a blessing preserved on the written page for the enrichment of this generation and those to come.

My school was 17 years as a player and another 16 watching more games probably than any coach has - all over the world, all systems. I couldn't go to school and write it down for people who are far less experienced, telling me what to do and how to do it.

The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones.