Writing Quotes - Page 56

I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.

If you would be a poet, write living newspapers. Be a reporter from outer space, filing dispatches to some supreme managing editor who believes in full disclosure and has a low tolerance for bullshit.

Write about the emotions you fear the most.

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.

Write something to suit yourself and many people will like it; write something to suit everybody and scarcely anyone will care for it.

There comes a time when you realize that everything is a dream, and only those things preserved in writing have any possibility of being real.

There's always room for a story that can transport people to another place.

And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that writing is walking on a dizzying silence setting one word after the other on emptiness. Writing is miraculous and terrifying like the flight of a bird who has no wings but flings itself out and only gets wings by flying.

Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save your own life, not anybody else's. That's why I write. I'm not trying to change anybody else's life or the world, I'm trying to keep from blowing my own brains out. That's the real point.

I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.

Ever since I began to compose, I have remained true to my starting principle: not to write a page because no matter what public, or what pretty girl wanted it to be thus or thus; but to write solely as I myself thought best, and as it gave me pleasure.

Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.

It's not how big your pencil is; it's how you write your name.

I write for what's left of the eight-year-old still rattling around inside my head

Sin2 φ is odious to me, even though Laplace made use of it; should it be feared that sin2 φ might become ambiguous, which would perhaps never occur, or at most very rarely when speaking of sin(φ2), well then, let us write (sin φ)2, but not sin2 φ, which by analogy should signify sin (sin φ)

Wherefore should I not offer my congratulations? But the very fact of them being Sayyids, those fountains of felicity, demands heartly exertions in support of Islam and their ancestor Muhammad the Lord of Apostles. Let two Kaftans of honor for the two brothers be issued from my wardrobe and let them be sent with two swords, jewel-hilted and provided with pearl mounted belts, let Jamdat-ul-Mulk write much praise and congratulations when sending these presents.

Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas.

It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.

Father, write Your Word in our heart; make us men and women who understand Your truth.

All the youth now in England of free men, who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it, be set to learn as long as they are not fit for any other occupation, until they are able to read English writing well.

Nothing is poorer than a truth expressed as it was thought. Committed to writing in such cases, it is not even a bad photograph. Truth wants to be startled abruptly, at one stroke, from her self-immersion, whether by uproar, music or cries for help.

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.

Free voluntary reading results in better reading comprehension, writing style, vocabulary, spelling, and grammatical development

If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it. How could anybody say that this wouldn't be as worthwhile an artform as anything on earth?