Best form & writing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.”

People Writing Reality Form Culture Left Wonder Comedy Tvs Standards Romantic Harder Entertainment Genre Classic Legitimacy Reality Tv

Author:Nancy Meyers

“I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.”

Feels Writing Form Communication Mass Communication

Author:Frank Ocean

“Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.”

“But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy, and making the best decisions you can on behalf of your people. It’s a slow process. It often feels hopeless, more like an affliction than an art form. Most of us will have to find our readers one by one, in other words, and against considerable resistance. If anything qualifies us as heroic, it’s that private perpetual struggle. Put down the magazine, soldier. Forget about the other guy. Remember who you are.”

“The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.”

People Ifs Knows Writing Ideas Stories Bigs Form Madness Crafts Acceptable Flash Big Ideas

Author:Taiye Selasi

“It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study.”

Writing Mind Has Beens Happens Form Study Finished Could Have Been

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“Writing [is] a form of prayer.”

Writing Form Prayer

Author:Franz Kafka

“In creation myths, a god shapes mud or clay into living form, much like a potter throws a pot or a sculptor reveals the statue within a block of marble. But a writer has to create his own clay or stone before he can begin shaping life from it.”

Writing Form Creation Shapes Stones Myth Block Pot Mud Clay Statues Potters Marble Sculptors Creation Myths

Author:Stuart Dybek

“Writing 'February' made me realize that breaking form is a way of letting the song be human.”

Way Writing Humans Made Form Song Realizing February

Author:Dar Williams

“As a writer, I always tend to take the liberty and the great artistic luxury of a composite form of writing.”

Writing Form Liberty Luxury Artistic Great Art Great Artist Composites

Author:Dwight Yoakam

“Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.”

“Earning money is not the sole objective of life or education. A community of any quality should have a whole range of skills and interests. They should paint, write, perform, visit art galleries and enjoy world-class concerts. Only then will they form a vibrant, rounded, interesting community.”

“Writing is a form of mischief.”

Writing Form Mischief

Author:Stephen Sondheim

“The honest and serious student of American history will recall that our Founding Fathers managed to write both the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution without using the term 'democracy' even once. No part of any of the existing state Constitutions contains any reference to the word. [The men] who were most influential in the institution and formulation of our government refer to 'democracy' only to distinguish it sharply from the republican form of our American Constitutional system.”

“I start with fear. It comes in so many forms. When I write, some of the fear goes away. So I write into the fear, and even more dissipates. I want to be scared while writing. I want to bring it to the surface so I can banish it.”

Want Writing I Can Form Scared Surface

Author:Mat Johnson

“I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.”

Writing Feelings Form Interest Company Clothes Calm Meals Neglect Stable

Author:Bertolt Brecht

“Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form.”

Writing Form Poetry Special Painter Translations Something Special Illustration

Author:Paul Gauguin

“Until film is just as easily accessible as a pen or pencil, then it's not completely an art form. In painting you can just pick up a piece of chalk, a stick or whatever. In sculpture you can get a rock. Writing you just need a pencil and paper.”

Needs Writing Art Film Form Pieces Rocks Painting Paper Picks Sticks Pens Pencils Sculpture Chalk

Author:Forest Whitaker

“You have to love writing a song and architecture. You have to give it a form. It is my job to create a sonic landscape. I like to create ambiance and atmosphere. The writing is the intimate part of it. It is a sketch. The production is the whole painting.”

Giving Writing Whole Jobs Form Song Painting Productions Architecture Landscape Atmosphere Intimate Ambiance

Author:Keren Ann

“To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.”

Ifs Writing Looks Mean Doe Ideas School Form Certain Three Half Plans Doors Painting Expression Models Draws Remains Drawing Painter Interiors

Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.”

Needs Feels Writing Play Moving Form Next Process Sentences Satisfying Editing Puzzles Edits The Next One One For Me

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“Ultimately all hominids came from Africa, and therefore everyone in America should simply check the box next to 'African-American.' My maternal grandmother was German and my maternal grandfather was Greek. The next time I fill out one of those forms I am going to check 'Other' and write in the truth about my racial and cultural heritage: 'African-Greek-German-American.' And proud of it.”

Thinking Should Writing America Form Next Proud Boxes Checks African American Greek Grandmother Heritage Grandfather Next Time Cultural Heritage Hominids

Book:Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

Source: Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time

“Somewhere in university, I realized that I hadn't been to classes in months, and I'd get tired to the point of narcolepsy doing anything other than some form of performing, directing, writing, or acting.”

Writing Form Acting Class Months Tired University I Realized Performing Narcolepsy

Author:William Shatner

“The surrealist thinks he has outstripped the whole of literary history when he has written (here a word that there is no need to write) where others have written "jasmines, swans and fauns." But what he has really done has been simply to bring to light another form of rhetoric which hitherto lay hidden in the latrines.”

Thinking Needs Writing Has Beens Done Whole Light Form Written Lays Rhetoric Swans Jasmine Surrealist Fauns

Book:the Revolt of the Masses

Source: the Revolt of the Masses

“God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and that is how we love one another. When you teach a child writing, you hold its hand while it forms the letters: that is, it forms the letters because you are forming them. We love and reason because God loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it.”

Thinking Writing Children Littles Reason Hands Form Teach Letters God Love Reasoning His Love Love One Another

Book:The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

Source: The Complete C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

“While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read many of them. I absorbed the form, and I liked it, it was a good one, mostly the hard-boiled school, you know, Chandler, Hammett, and their heirs. That was the direction that interested me most.”

Knows Writing Hard School Form Reading Novel Periods Detectives Heirs Writing Poems

Author:Paul Auster

“Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for the way they see the world... if, in fact, they are writing from the artist's impulse, which is a deep, inchoate vision of some sort of order behind the apparent chaos of life on planet earth, they'll be driven then to express that vision in the creation of the object - the art object.”

Ifs World Way Writing Trying Art Facts Stories Earth Form Artist Order Force Natural Behinds Vision Novel Creation Objects Planets Chaos Driven Impulse Appropriate Screenplays Planet Earth

Author:Robert Olen Butler

“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.”

Thinking Writing Persons Soul Matter Form Flow

Author:Anton Chekhov

“I compelled myself all through to write an exercise in verse, in a different form, every day of the year. I turned out my page every day, of some sort - I mean I didn't give a damn about the meaning, I just wanted to master the form - all the way from free verse, Walt Whitman, to the most elaborate of villanelles and ballad forms. Very good training. I've always told everybody who has ever come to me that I thought that was the first thing to do.”

Way Giving Writing Years Firsts Mean Different Wanted Form Masters Exercise Pages Training Very Good Damn Things To Do Verses Compelled Walt Ballads Days Of The Year Free Verse

Author:Conrad Aiken

“Writing has always been my go-to form of expression. Whenever I was going through something as a kid, I would write it down and I would turn it into a poem.”

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Author:Jhene Aiko

“The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces.”

Feels Writing Form Pieces Favourite Essays

Author:Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

“I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.”

Source: This Quiet Dust and Other Writings

“I got jury duty and I didn't want to go, so my friend said, "You should write something really really racist on the form when you return it. Like, you should put 'I hate chinks'." And I said, "I'm not going to put that on there just to get out of jury duty. I don't want people to think that about me." So instead I wrote, "I love chinks." And who doesn't?”

People Thinking Want Should Writing Said Humor Funny Form Hate Duty Like You Return My Friends I Hate Racist Jury Chinks Jury Duty

Author:Sarah Silverman

“My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene.”

Writing Stories Form Scene My Favorite Bones Short Story Aesthetics

Author:Roger Zelazny

“Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression.”

Writing Book Remember Form Written Worst Expression Comfort Actresses Poetic Closest Rhyme Picture Books

Author:Kirby Larson

“I truly believe that writing is a continuum--so the different genres and forms are simply stops along the same continuum. Different ideas that need to be expressed sometimes require different forms for the ideas to float better.”

Needs Writing Believe Ideas Different Sometimes Form Genre Floats Continuum Different Genres Different Ideas

Author:Chris Abani

“Most students of nature sooner or later pass through a process of writing off a large percentage of their supposed capital of knowledge as a merely illusory asset. As we trace more accurately certain familiar sequences of phenomena we begin to realize how closely these sequences, or laws , as we call them, are hemmed round by still other laws of which we can form no notion. With myself this writing off of illusory assets has gone rather far and the cobweb of supposed knowledge has been pinched (as some one has phrased) into a particularly small pill.”

Source: Presidential Addresses to the Society for Psychical Research, 1882-1911

“Somewhere In Time is the story of a love which transcends time , What Dreams May Come is the story of a love which transcends death . ... I feel that they represent the best writing I have done in the novel form.”

Feels Writing May Done Stories Dream Form Novel End Times Somewhere In Time

Author:Richard Matheson

“Sit down at ten o'clock in the morning and write anything that comes into my head until twelve. One of the few things I've discovered about writing is to form a habit that becomes an addiction so that if you don't put something down on paper every day, you get really mean and awful with withdrawal symptoms, and your wife and your dog and your kids are going to kick your ass until you get back to it because they can't bear you in that state of mind.”

Ifs Writing Mind Mean States Kids Form Morning Wife Dog Bears Habit Ten Paper Addiction Ass Awful Clock Kicks Get Back State Of Mind Twelve Symptoms Get Real Really Mean Withdrawal

Author:Frank Pierson

“Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.”

Writing Sometimes Form Mere Fragile Quantity Suggestions Incidents Spine Anecdotes Drapes

Author:Irving Howe

“Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers.”

Writing Form Father Church Atheism Positive Atheism Portions Fierce Grotesque Church Fathers

Author:William Edward Hartpole Lecky

“Improvisation, it is a mystery. You can write a book about it, but by the end no one still knows what it is. When I improvise and I'm in good form, I'm like somebody half sleeping. I even forget there are people in front of me. Great improvisers are like priests; they are thinking only of their god.”

People Thinking Knows Writing Stills Book Ends Form Sleep Forget Half Mystery Fronts Priests Improvisation

Book:Jazz Violin

Source: Jazz Violin

“All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!”

Writing States Seems Form Worst Effects Window Presses Errors Proof Shops Remarkable Furniture Manuscripts Unnoticed Shop Windows

Book:The George Eliot Letters: 1874-1877

Source: The George Eliot Letters: 1874-1877

“writing is the most personal form of prayer.”

Writing Form Prayer

Book:Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

Source: Something More: Excavating Your Authentic Self

“Once considered an art form that called for talent, or at least a craft that called for practice, a poem now needs only sincerity. Everyone, we're assured, is a poet. Writing poetry is good for us. It expresses our inmost feelings, which is wholesome. Reading other people's poems is pointless since those aren't our own inmost feelings.”

People Needs Writing Art Feelings Form Reading Practice Talent Poet Crafts Poetry Is Sincerity Assured Pointless Writing Poetry

Book:Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

“When you are writing a spoken word poem, the tools you're working with are your voice, your body, how it's going to sound to someone when you're saying it out loud. Which is different from when you're writing it on the page. That toolbox becomes how does this look visually on the page, how does this read among pages, how is this in relation to poems that are before it or after it. I don't think one is better or more successful than the other. You've just gotta think about "what are the tools I'm using, and how are they most effective in this form?"”

Thinking Writing Looks Doe Different Body Form Sound Voice Successful Pages Tools Relation Your Body Loud Spoken Word Toolbox

Author:Phil Kay

“You have to have an eye and a feeling for where things go. Writing visually, writing textually, writing sonically. Text is visual for me and images are textual. There is power in the way ideas are arranged, not just developed rhetorically. Form is everything.”

Way Writing Ideas Feelings Eye Form Visuals

Author:Masha Tupitsyn

“The process of writing a poem represents work done on the self of the poet, in order to make form.”

Writing Self Done Form Order Process Poet Work Done

Author:Muriel Rukeyser

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