Writing Quotes - Page 67

You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you dont necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.

In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.

What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel.

I believe in not quite knowing. A writer needs to be doubtful, questioning. I write out of curiosity and bewilderment.

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

Writing is the painting of the voice.

I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.

The problem with fiction, it has to be plausible. That's not true with non-fiction.

I deplore with you the putrid state into which our newspapers have passed, and the malignity, the vulgarity, and mendacious spirit of those who write for them. ... This has in a great degree been produced by the violence and malignity of party spirit.

I write music, and I want people to listen to it and care about it and have it make some difference in their lives. When I'm fortunate for that to happen, then of course I feel very, very good about it.

In order for you to be yourself, you have to be somebody first.

The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.

We're all the scriptures. We live the scriptures. The scriptures doesn't manifest unless it is amongst human beings and the scriptures are for us, written by us. The scriptures didn't write itself. We wrote the scriptures.

A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.

I wanted to write a play about double nature ... one that wouldn't be symbolic or metaphorical or any of that stuff. I just wanted to give a taste of what it feels like to be two-sided. It's a real thing, double nature. I think we're split in a much more devastating way than psychology can ever reveal. It's not so cute. Not some little thing we can get over. It's something we've got to live with

In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of.

We write by the light of every story we have ever read.

We should not speak so that it is possible for the audience to understand us, but so that it is impossible for them to misunderstand us.

I truly believe that the great heroes that create the history of architecture are people who take risks and write to tell about it.

Writing crystallizes thought and thought produces action.

The moving finger writes; and having writ, moves on.

If you give up before your goal has been reached, you are a "quitter." A QUITTER NEVER WINS AND A WINNER NEVER QUITS. Lift this sentence out, write it on a piece of paper in letters an inch high, and place it where you will see it every night before you go to sleep, and every morning before you go to work

If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter frequent patches of frustration. Writing is nothing if not challenging.

I'm not reading any novels right now, though not for lack of trying. Unless they're really good, my attention in most novels tends to sputter out after a hundred pages or so - an awful admission for someone who is trying to write one, but it's true.

Real lobbying reform must end the practice of corporate lobbyists writing our laws.