Writing Quotes - page 11

Louis Braille created the code of raised dots for reading and writing that bears his name and brings literacy, independence, and productivity to the blind. (Bob Ney)
I learned that you should feel when writing, not like Lord Byron on a mountain top, but like child stringing beads in kindergarten, - happy, absorbed and quietly putting one bead on after another. View quote
Brenda Ueland
I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner. View quote
Barry Mann
The flattery is nice, but awards don't add up to writing quality songs. View quote
Chantal Kreviazuk
Learn your instrument. Be honest. Don't do anything phony. There is so much crap floating around. There is plenty of room for a bit of honest writing. View quote
Christine McVie
In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease. View quote
Constance Baker Motley
I've tried writing. Two days later I'd go visit it and say, Jesus Christ, who wrote this crap? View quote
Dennis Farina
I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it. View quote
Diane Cilento
My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down. View quote
Dick Schaap
I am an English major in school with an emphasis in creative writing. I think hearing Maya Angelou speak at school last year was one of the best moments Stanford, at least, intellectually, had to offer. View quote
Fred Savage
I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work. (Glenn Frey)
I'm working seven days a week in the fall. I couldn't possibly keep that up. This is only for the fall. In the last couple of years I've tended to do most of my serious writing in the winter, when there's nothing going on with football. View quote
Gregg Easterbrook
I remember once, when I started writing for the alto saxophone, a saxophonist told me to think of it as being like a cross between an oboe and a viola, but louder. View quote
Gavin Bryars
As I had collaborated with visual artists before whether on installations, on performance pieces, in the context of theatre works and as I had taught for a time in art colleges the idea of writing music in response to painting was not alien. View quote
Gavin Bryars
I am writing something which I find satisfying and which I am prepared to put my name to as a composer. View quote
Gavin Bryars
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination. View quote
Ishmael Reed
I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise. View quote
Leo Kottke
When I was speaking about communicating, I meant that the listener - we have to reach the listener; otherwise, of course, you're writing the piece, as I say, only for the satisfaction of seeing it on the paper for yourself, and then it ends right there. View quote
Leo Ornstein
I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies. View quote
Leslie Fiedler
My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which it caused me, drove me the more persistently into writing as an alternative. View quote
Laurence Housman
Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about. (Marilyn Hacker)
All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side. View quote
Marguerite Young
Writing Part of the Scenery has been a very different experience. I have been reminded of people and events, real and imaginary which have been part of my life. This book is a celebration of the land which means so much to me. View quote
Mary Wesley
When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style. View quote
Otis Blackwell
Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home. View quote
Philip Levine