Quotes 441 till 460 of 555.
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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
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To write is to make oneself the echo of what cannot cease speaking - and since it cannot, in order to become its echo I have, in a way, to silence it. I bring to this incessant speech the decisiveness, the authority of my own silence.
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To write it - three months, to conceive it - three minutes. To collect the data in it - all my life.
Zelf-interview over This Side of Paradise -
To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence.
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To write something, you have to risk making a fool of yourself.
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To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.
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To write what is worth publishing, to find honest people to publish it, and get sensible people to read it, are the three great difficulties in being an author.
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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
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Touring we thought was a waste of time. It was much more productive and much more creative to write and record. I am glad today that we didn't tour. We knew it begins and ends with a song. Back then the entire business revolved around the song.
Daily Telegraph, 5 Jul 2008 -
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved-to write a book.
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Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I actually accomplished. However, it becomes a motivation to write the next book.
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Usually I write the songs at home and then I bring them in to the band; when we play them as a band, that's kinda how we figure out the feel of how they're going to be presented on the record or live.
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We all write poems. It is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
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We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.
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We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do.
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We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
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We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.
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We simply write the kind of music we enjoy most and hope that our audience will enjoy it too.
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