Best stones & writing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The Nature of the Artist: An Address Delivered at the Dedication Ceremonies for Lee Pattison Recital Hall, Wilbur Hall, Mary Kimberly Residence Hall

“I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for "True Blood" and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time.”

Writing Two Able Blood Bird Stones Killing Comic Two Birds

Author:Michael McMillian

“Well, I would hardly say I do write as yet. But I write because I like words. I suppose if I liked stone I might carve. I like words. I like reading. I notice particular words. That sets me off.”

Ifs Writing Wells Might Reading Particular Stones

Author:A. S. Byatt

“The poem I want to write is impossible. A stone that floats.”

Want Writing Impossible Stones Floats

Book:The Monster Loves His Labyrinth

Source: The Monster Loves His Labyrinth

“When I was in the gulag I would sometimes even write on stone walls. I used to write on scraps of paper, then I memorised the contents and destroyed the scraps.”

Writing Sometimes Used Wall Paper Stones Destroyed Scrap Stone Walls Gulags

Author:Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“What I like to do is come in, write the entire program and treat my staff to hot stone massages.”

Writing Program Stones Treats Hot Staff Massage

Author:Jon Stewart

“Write what you know. Every guide for the aspiring author advises this. Because I live in a long-settled rural place, I know certain things. I know the feel of a newborn lamb's damp, tight-curled fleece and the sharp sound a well-bucket chain makes as it scrapes on stone. But more than these material things, I know the feelings that flourish in small communities. And I know other kinds of emotional truths that I believe apply across the centuries.”

“Could I write all, the world would turn to stone.”

World Writing Turns Stones

Author:Caterina Sforza

“And then simultaneously I don't think they're asking you to necessarily write in stone that this is what you're going to do or what you have to do.”

Thinking Writing Stones Asking

Author:Bryan Burk

“We do what we want to do. We write songs. We try not to repeat ourselves too much. We have our own sound and our own way of doing things. Up until now it has always been enjoyable. None of the members have ever got to the point where they don't want to be involved in it ... It's not entirely possible for me to stand back and look at the Rolling Stones because being a part of it you can't. I wish that I could just sit in the audience for one night and see the show. Everyone in the band has said that at some point. But then you wouldn't be seeing the whole band. And that's the problem with that.”

Way Want Writing Trying Looks Said Whole Shows Problem Night Song Wish Sound Audience Too Much Seeing Involved Band Members Stones Repeats Rolling Enjoyable One Night Rolling Stones

Author:Keith Richards

“I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper.”

Thinking Feels Writing I Can Hands Type Paper Comfortable Computer Stones Crosses Fingers Pens Old Man Pencils Ink Typewriters Manuals Keyboards Gripping Tablets

Author:Paul Auster

“One of the things that's amazing about reading the private writing of these folks is that they enthusiastically describe things which we have now seen, and which are widely regarded as unappealing. They'll write, "It's going to be beautiful, we're going to have a town of 1,000 stone buildings that are all identical." And we as modern readers think, we've seen that; that's bad Soviet architecture or a public housing project. Nobody fantasizes about living there.”

Thinking Writing Beautiful Reading Modern Building Reader Projects Stones Towns Folks Architecture Soviet Housing Identical Public Housing

Author:Christine Jennings

“Whereas to write, all you need is paper and an idea, so I felt that writing might be my stepping stone.”

Needs Writing Ideas Might Felt Paper Stones Stepping Stones

Author:Curtis Hanson

“Bob Wallace was my editor at Rolling Stone when I first started writing there, and he's a wonderful editor. I was in the Philippines during the Marcos overthrow, and I was up on what was called Smokey Mountain. I think it's gone now, but it was a garbage dump with a bunch of people living on it. I was talking to Bob on the phone, and I told him, "I'm a humorist. I can't write about this." And Bob told me to let my style be dictated by the subject, to take what I saw and write about it in the tone that it requires.”

“After the bare requisites to living and reproducing, man wants most to leave some record of himself, a proof, perhaps, that he has really existed. He leaves his proof on wood, on stone or on the lives of other people. This deep desire exists in everyone, from the boy who writes dirty words in a public toilet to the Buddha who etches his image in the race mind. Life is so unreal. I think that we seriously doubt that we exist and go about trying to prove that we do.”

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Book:The Pastures of Heaven

Source: The Pastures of Heaven

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life, and it is the main obstacle between you and a shitty first draft. I think perfectionism is based on the obsessive belief that if you run carefully enough, hitting each stepping-stone just right, you won't have to die. The truth is that you will die anyway and that a lot of people who aren't even looking at their feet are going to do a whole lot better than you, and have a lot more fun while they're doing it.”

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.”

Writing Stories Language Objects Stones Window Chairs Insightful Short Story Immense Precise Curtains Commonplace Forks Earrings

Book:Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories

Source: Fires: Essays, Poems, Stories

“When asked, "How do you write?" I invariably answer, "One word at a time," and the answer is invariably dismissed. But that is all it is. It sounds too simple to be true, but consider the Great Wall of China, if you will: one stone at a time, man. That's all. One stone at a time. But I've read you can see that motherfucker from space without a telescope.”

Ifs Men Writing Sound Simple Space Answers Wall Stones China Being True One Word Telescopes Great Wall Great Wall Of China

Book:The Stand

Source: The Stand

“When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like a stone wall. Not all the stones will fit. Some will have to be discarded. Some broken and reshaped. When you finish the wall it may not look exactly like the wall you envisioned, but it will keep the livestock in and the predators out. (pg. 144)”

Writing Looks May Important Stories Seems Interest Imagination Broken Wall Fit Research Built Stones Predator Discarded Livestock Stone Walls

Author:Roland Smith

“Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.”

Writing Voice Stones Poetry Is Liquid

Book:What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

Source: What Is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics (Expanded Edition)

“All Creatures know that some must die That all the rest may take and eat; Sooner or later, all transform Their blood to wine, their flesh to meat. But Man alone seeks Vengefulness, And writes his abstract Laws on stone; For this false Justice he has made, He tortures limb and crushes bone. Is this the image of a god? My tooth for yours, your eye for mine? Oh, if Revenge did move the stars Instead of Love, they would not shine.”

Ifs Knows Men Writing May Made Eye Moving Law Dies Stars Justice Blood Mines Creatures Stones Wine Shining Bones Revenge Flesh Teeth Meat Torture Abstract Crush Sooner Or Later Limbs

Book:The Year Of The Flood

Source: The Year Of The Flood

“A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.”

Men Writing May Use Political Objects Stones Handful Marksman

Author:Samuel Johnson

“Clary screamed out loud as he fell like a stone- And landed lightly on his feet just in front of her. Clary stared with her mouth open as he rose up out of a shallow crouch and grinned at her. "If I made a joke about just dropping in," he said, "would you write me off as a cliché?”

Ifs Writing Made Said Feet Fronts Jokes Mouths Stones Rose Loud Shallow Jace Dropping Clary Fray

Book:Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls

“Then I realized what separated us: what I thought about him could not reach him; it was psychology, the kind they write about in books. But his judgment went through me like a sword and questioned my very right to exist. And it was true, I had always realized it; I hadn't the right to exist. I had appeared by chance, I existed like a stone, a plant or a microbe. My life put out feelers towards small pleasures in every direction. Sometimes it sent out vague signals; at other times I felt nothing more than a harmless buzzing.”