Quotes and Sayings About Writing

Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It's difficult.
-- Agnes Denes

#Writing #Expression #Trying

A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Strong #Writing #Careers

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Writing #Men #Generosity

Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Believe #Writing #Men

real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Real #Writing #Humanity

Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Passion #Writing #Heart

The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him.
-- Aharon Appelfeld

#Writing #Israel #People

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.
-- Aharon Appelfeld

#Writing #Metaphor #Catastrophe

A story is not only meaning, it's music as well.
-- Aharon Appelfeld

#Writing #Stories #Wells

If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?
-- Ahdaf Soueif

#Writing #Space #People

To take part in the African revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song. You must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you fashion it with the people, the songs will come by themselves.
-- Ahmed Sekou Toure

#Fashion #Song #Writing

I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.
-- Ahmet Zappa

#Dream #Book #Writing

We didn't say good bye. But we knew it would be the end if we were apart. There was no reason to call or write letters. As it would have been meaningless, if we couldn't hold each other tight.
-- Ai Yazawa

#Writing #Bye #Would Be

Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away.
-- Aidan Chambers

#Book #Writing #People

We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence their memories, frame their epitaphs, and build their monuments. We will do anything except imitate them. We cherish the last drop of their blood, but watch carefully over the first drop of our own.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer

#Memories #Writing #Blood

Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight.
-- Aileen Fisher

#Writing #Feelings #Pieces

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
-- Aimee Bender

#Dream #Writing #Awake

Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
-- Aimee Bender

#Writing #Feelings #Lovely

I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
-- Aimee Bender

#Writing #People #Kind

It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things...
-- Aimee Bender

#Writing #Pages #Best Work

Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest.
-- Aimee Bender

#Struggle #Writing #Character

I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor.
-- Aimee Mann

#Song #Writing #Piano

It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it.
-- Aimee Mann

#Writing #Come Up #Cases

When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.
-- Aja Monet

#Writing #Spend Time #Behalf

As far as I know, if you take your time, write a good script and make a good film, then give the audience time, they will accept it.
-- Ajay Devgan

#Writing #Giving #Scripts

Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.
-- Akhil Sharma

#Writing #Years #Mind

When I start on a film I always have a number of ideas about my project. Then one of them begins to germinate, to sprout, and it is this, which I take and work with. My films come from my need to say a particular thing at a particular time. The beginning of any film for me is this need to express something. It is to make it nurture and grow that I write my script- it is directing it that makes my tree blossom and bear fruit.
-- Akira Kurosawa

#Writing #Ideas #Numbers

Of all my films, people wrote to me most about this one... ...I had wanted to make The Idiot long before Rashomon. Since I was little I've liked Russian literature, but I find that I like Dostoevsky the best and had long thought that this book would make a wonderful film. He is still my favourite author, and he is the one - I still think - who writes most honestly about human existence.
-- Akira Kurosawa

#Book #Writing #Thinking

I have no idea who the characters are, later, their personalities take over anything I might want to do. I end up writing not from my own will, but from theirs-they come alive as I write and make me do things that I couldn't have planned.
-- Akira Kurosawa

#Writing #Character #Ideas

If I were to write anything at all, it would turn out to be nothing but talk about movies. In other words, take 'myself,' subtract 'movies,' and the result is 'zero.'
-- Akira Kurosawa

#Zero #Writing #Results