Best wind & writing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The advice I continually give to young writers is this, "Learn to paint pictures with words." Not just once upon a time, but ... In the long secret dust of ages, beneath a blue forgotten sky, where trade winds caress the sun bleached shores of unknown realms ... See, as much as there are words in poetry, there is a poetry in words. Use it, stay faithful to the path you have set your heart upon and follow it.”

Giving Writing Heart Long Use Age Young Secret Sun Path Sky Advice Wind Blue Trade Paint Forgotten Dust Faithful Realms Shore Once Upon A Time Caress Young Writers

Author:Brian Jacques

“Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your readers will recognize in their own lives. Think small and you'll wind up finding the big themes in your family saga.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Stills Self Bigs Remember Memories Wind Reader Findings Our Family Theme Vivid Incidents Our Memories Saga Self Contained

Book:Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past

Source: Writing about Your Life: A Journey Into the Past

“Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.”

Ifs Writing Achieve Wind Glory Accidents Immortality Adam Economist Fling Pluck

Book:The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography

Source: The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in biography

“I'm thinking of writing a children's story about a leaf on a tree who arrogantly insists he's a self-made, independent leaf. Then one day a fierce wind blows him off his branch and to the ground below. As his life slowly ebbs away, he looks up at the magnificent old tree that had been his home and realizes that he had never been on his own. His entire life he had been part of something bigger and more beautiful than anything he could have imagined. In a blinding flash, he awakens from the delusion of self. Then an arrogant, self-centered kid rakes him up and bags him.”

“When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child.”

Writing Children Water Morning Wind Ocean Breathe Rejoice Verses Salty

Author:Joseph Goebbels

“I knew when I was writing The Angel's Game that a lot of people would be upset that I didn't write Shadow Of The Wind 2. That's okay, that's part of the game. You do what you have to do. If they like it, great. If they don't, too bad. What are you going to do?”

People Ifs Writing Would Be Games Wind Angel Shadow Okay Upset Shadow Of The Wind

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Most of what I do is science fiction. Some of the things I do are fantasy. I don't like the labels, they're marketing tools, and I certainly don't worry about them when I'm writing. They are also inhibiting factors; you wind up not getting read by certain people, or not getting sold to certain people because they think they know what you write. You say science fiction and everybody thinks Star Wars or Star Trek.”

People Thinking Knows Writing War Certain Stars Fiction Worry Fantasy Wind Tools Science Fiction Marketing Factors Labels

Author:Octavia Butler

“We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.”

Writing Enemy Watches Wind Blow Dust Desert Epitaph

Book:Pump Six and Other Stories

Source: Pump Six and Other Stories

“If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".”

Ifs Writing America Meditation Teaching Wind Buddhism West Autobiography Rama

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Just about everything significant in my life happened after I passed forty. I was a housewife and mother, but yearned to be a writer. I worked at my writing whenever I could snatch a moment, and I assembled several manuscripts. I was just about forty when my first novel, East Wind, West Wind, was published. Then a few months later came The Good Earth. My career was launched at last, and it has given me the richest possible satisfaction”

Writing Firsts Moments Earth Lasts Mother Given Careers Novel Happened Wind Months West Satisfaction East Significant Forty Housewife Manuscripts Life Happens Good Earth

Author:Pearl S. Buck

“writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.”

Way Writing Light Wind Labor Candle Defiance Gale Labor Of Love

Author:Alice Childress

“As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about, clearly I am sensitive to the winds that are blowing in the culture. At the same time, I have always felt that the issue was not to deal with the problem in the abstract, but to deal with the people who are in that problem. The emphasis is on the people. The general problem begins to resolve itself even before the play is finished.”

People Writing Play Problem Culture Felt Deals Issues Wind Periods Finished Sensitive Abstract Resolve Emphasis Always Believe Embedded

Author:Arthur Miller

“Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next Gone With the Wind.”

Writing Next Gone Wind Needed Southern

Author:Karin Slaughter

“So it's the unwinding of your nervous system. The corresponding experience to what winds you up comes out in your dreams. To write a song then, even one like Don't Bother Me, helps to get rid of some subconscious burden. Writing a song is like going to confession.”

Writing Helping Dream Song Wind Burden Nervous Bother Your Dreams Confession Subconscious Nervous System Corresponding

Author:George Harrison

“If you are one of the hewers of wood and drawers of small weekly paychecks, your letters will have to contain some few items of news or they will be accounted dry stuff.... But if you happen to be of a literary turn of mind, or are, in any way, likely to become famous, you may settle down to an afternoon of letter-writing on nothing more sprightly in the way of news than the shifting of the wind from south to south-east.”

Ifs Way Writing Mind May Happens Turns Stuff Wind Fame News Letters South Woods East Settling Dry Afternoon Items Shifting Drawers Paychecks Settling Down Letter Writing

Author:Robert Benchley

“Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put them down, and simply write down what they do, say, or think.”

Thinking Needs Writing Character Wind Sitting Down And

Author:Terry Pratchett

“Everyone eventually winds up writing about themselves - the problem is finding the best way to go about it. To write about oneself literally, in the first person, presumes a more interesting personal life and philosophy than most rock lyricists possess. John Lennon was good for one great album based on musical direct address, 'Plastic Ono Band.”

Way Writing Firsts Persons Philosophy Problem Interesting Rocks Wind Band Findings Direct Musical Oneself Albums Best Way Addresses Plastic Personal Life First Person Lennon Lyricists

Author:Jon Landau

“Writing a first draft is like trying to build a house in a strong wind.”

Writing Trying Firsts House Strong Wind Strong Winds

Author:William Faulkner

“To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should dehumanize ourselves, feel the feel of feathers on our body and wind in our wings, and finally know what it is to leave abundance and safety and daylight and yield to a compelling instinct, age-old, seeming at the time quite devoid of reason and object.”

Knows Feels Should Writing Reason Body Age Objects Wind Bird Safety Wings Instinct Oneself Conviction Honestly Abundance Yield Compelling Feathers Daylight Seeming Migration

Book:A Naturalist's Life of New York

Source: A Naturalist's Life of New York

“All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff...Basically what people want to hear is: I love you, you love me, the leaves turn brown, they fell off the trees, the wind is blowing, it got cold, you went away, my heart broke, you came back, and my heart was okay...Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear. Most people wouldn't know good music if it came up and bit them on the ass...If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?”

“You wind up creating from silence, like painting a picture on a blank canvas that could bring tears to somebody's eyes. As songwriters, our blank canvas is silence. Then we write a song from an idea that can change somebody's life. Songwriting is the closest thing to magic that we could ever experience. That's why I love songwriting.”

Writing Ideas Eye Song Silence Magic Tears Painting Wind Creating Songwriting Closest Blank Songwriters Canvas Singer Songwriters Blank Canvas Painting A Picture

Author:Rodney Atkins

“I don't know if I have some kind of defiance disorder or something, but if I'm hired to write something by "The Man," or by a studio, for whatever reason, it's really hard for me to finish. I inevitably wind up using that time to write something else.”

Ifs Knows Men Writing Kind Hard Reason He Man Wind Studios Disorder Defiance

Author:Diablo Cody

“Basically, I wake up, take care of my son for a little while, and then like, "I am gonna write!" And then I wind up.”

Writing Littles Care Son Wind Wake Up Take Care My Son

Author:Joel Stein

“To me everyone goes through that at some point in adolescence, you know. There's - you meet someone when you're a young teenager, and they're never right for you, and you always wind up hurting someone on the way to figuring out all this stuff. But it was a fun writing process.”

Knows Way Writing Young Fun Stuff Process Hurt Wind Teenager Adolescence Writing Process Hurting Someone

Author:Don Hertzfeldt

“I think that it is very interesting to write about a team because a team is a group of people who work in very close quarters and have very intense relationships so - in my days of playing sports, I was very rarely on a team that did not have it's own peculiar dynamic, and you wind up having very intense feelings for good and for bad about these people with whom you spend many hours a day.”

People Thinking Writing Feelings Sports Hours Interesting Groups Team Wind Intense Peculiar Quarters Very Interesting Playing Sports Intense Feelings

Author:Chad Harbach

“The idea I pursue is the one that keeps coming back to me. The characters I think about as I'm falling asleep at night or when I'm driving to the grocery store are the one's I wind up writing about.”

Thinking Writing Ideas Character Night Fall Wind Stores Driving Pursue Coming Back Groceries Grocery Stores Falling Asleep

Author:Ann Patchett

“I'm definitely excited by big ideas, both in what I write and what I read. Most days, reality is so mind-numbingly dull that I don't understand why someone would write strictly realistic stories, given the almost limitless freedom fiction provides. I don't see the point of making believe if you're not going to actually make believe: hang your ass out in the wind, push at every boundary, make almost unreasonable demands on your reader's willingness to suspend disbelief. This is dangerous, and prone to failure, but that's part of what makes it fun.”

“As a sick kid, I always looked out the window. The objects of my observation were the sun, the seasons, the wind, crazy people, and my grandfather's death. During my long period of observation, I felt that something like poems were filling up my body. They were in some kind of state and condition that made them difficult to render into words. As a university student, I tried hard to write them in Korean. It was at that time that I foresaw my death and the world's death. I think my poems started at that time.”

“Writings scatter to the winds blank checks in an insane charge. And were they not such flying leaves, there would be no purloined letters.”

Writing Would Be Wind Letters Flying Checks Insane Blank Blank Check

Author:Jacques Lacan

“The aftermath of the war is what inspired us to write many of our plays. The whole reason for our writing Inherit the Wind was that we were appalled at the blacklisting. We were appalled at thought control.”

Writing War Reason Play Whole Wind Inspired Aftermath Inherit The Wind

Author:Jerome Lawrence

“When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.”

Feels Writing Enough Wind Paper Committed Pens Spine Quills

Book:Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir

Source: Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir

“There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like spider silk, and when you are so enthralled you cannot move, they pierce your skin, enter your blood, numb your thoughts. Inside you they work their magic.”

Writing Hands Moving Magic Blood Wind Skins Experts Prisoner Spiders Limbs Numb Silk Pierce

Book:The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

Source: The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel

“The odor of bowel wind is known to every human, but the fragrance of book glue has crossed only a fraction of mortal nostrils. And yet it behooves us not to judge the unlettered too harshly. We must stay the impulse to write CHUCKLEHEAD above their doors and carve DOLT upon their tombstones.”

Writing Humans Book Known Doors Judging Wind Mortals Impulse Fragrance Fractions Glue Tombstone Odor

Author:James K. Morrow

“For it would seem - her case proved it - that we write, not with the fingers, but with the whole person. The nerve which controls the pen winds itself about every fibre of our being, threads the heart, pierces the liver.”

Writing Heart Persons Whole Seems Cases Wind Fingers Pens Nerves Thread Liver Pierce Whole Person

Book:Orlando

Source: Orlando

“The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That's how life is most of the time, isn't it? You know where you are and where you hope to wind up. It's the getting there that's challenging.”

Knows Writing Wells Ends Life Is Challenges Journey Middle Wind Discovery Remains Where You Are Puzzles

Author:Anna Quindlen

“Come clean with a child heart Laugh as peaches in the summer wind Let rain on a house roof be a song Let the writing on your face be a smell of apple orchards on late June.”

Writing Heart Children Happiness Faces Song House Laughing Wind Late Summer Rain Clean Smell Apples Your Face Roof June Peaches Orchard Summer Wind

Book:Honey and Salt

Source: Honey and Salt

“When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of passing through the X-ray scanner. The laptops roll merrily down the belt, while I’m instructed to stand aside and open my bag. To me it seems like a normal enough thing to be carrying, but the typewriter’s declining popularity arouses suspicion and I wind up eliciting the sort of reaction one might expect when traveling with a cannon. It’s a typewriter,’ I say. ‘You use it to write angry letters to airport security.”

Source: Me Talk Pretty One Day

“February. Get ink, shed tears. Write of it, sob your heart out, sing, While torrential slush that roars Burns in the blackness of the spring. Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas, Race through the noice of bells and wheels To where the ink and all you grieving Are muffled when the rainshower falls. To where, like pears burnt black as charcoal, A myriad rooks, plucked from the trees, Fall down into the puddles, hurl Dry sadness deep into the eyes. Below, the wet black earth shows through, With sudden cries the wind is pitted, The more haphazard, the more true The poetry that sobs its heart out.”

Writing Heart Shows Eye Earth Fall Black Race Tree Sadness Cry Tears Wind Six Spring Grieving Dry Wheels Bells Wet Shed Ink Falling Down Blackness February Puddles Pears Charcoal Haphazard Slush

Author:Boris Pasternak

“Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction. If not so, why do so many couples who start the evening at dinner wind up in bed?”

Ifs Writing Wind Couple Bed Dinner Evening Seduction

Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating.”

Writing Heart Moments Bigs Process Wind Cold Sight Bags Afternoon Hunting Heart Break

Author:Kate Braverman

“I wrote poetry from the time I could write. That was the only way I could begin to express who I was but the poems didn't make sense to my teachers. They didn't rhyme. They were about the wind sounds, the planets' motions, never about who I was or how I felt. I didn't think I felt anything. I was this mind more than a body or a heart. My mind photographing the stars, hearing the wind.”

Thinking Way Writing Mind Heart Body Stars Felt Sound Teacher Planets Wind Hearing Make Sense Rhyme

Author:Francesca Lia Block

“I gasp, because Isn't that just exactly what I've been doing too: writing poems and scattering them to the winds with the same hope as Gram that someone, someday, somewhere might understand who I am, who my sister was, and what happened to us.”

Writing Might Happened Wind Who I Am Someday My Sister Writing Poems

Book:The Sky Is Everywhere

Source: The Sky Is Everywhere

“Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the waves, the silence, the wooded frontier. You're at the bow of a boat on the Rainy River. You're twenty-one years old, you're scared, and there's a hard squeezing pressure in your chest. What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?”

Source: The Things They Carried

“At times I believed that the last page of my book and the last page of my life were one and the same, that when my book ended I'd end, a great wind would sweep through my rooms carrying the pages away, and when the air cleared of all those fluttering white sheets the room would be silent, the chair where I sat empty.”

Writing Book Ends Would Be Lasts White Rooms Air Wind Pages Empty Silent Sat Chairs Sheets Fluttering

Book:The History of Love: A Novel

Source: The History of Love: A Novel

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