Quotes having the keyword Write
In the history of literature there are many great enduring works which were not published in the lifetimes of the authors. If the authors had not achieved self-affirmation while writing, how could they have continued to write?
by Gao Xingjian (Novelist, Chinese , born in 1940) keywords: achieved, authors, continued, could, enduring, great, had, history, how, lifetimes, literature, many, published, were, which, while, works, write , writing I think no artist can claim to have any access to the truth, or an authentic version of an event. But obviously they have slightly better means at their disposal because they have their art to energize whatever it is they're trying to write about. They have music.
by Thom Yorke (Musician, English , born in 1968) keywords: access, any, art, artist, authentic, because, better, claim, disposal, event, means, music, obviously, slightly, their, think, truth, trying, version, whatever , write I would never write realistic prose. I don't like people who try to write in a poetic style, but in the course of their book abandon it for realism, and weave back and forth like drunkards between the surreal and the real.
by Marguerite Young (Author, American , born in 1908) keywords: abandon, back, between, book, course, drunkards, forth, never, poetic, prose, real, realism, realistic, style, surreal, their, try, weave, would , write I would teach from nine to four, sleep an hour, and write from six until midnight, night after night.
by Marguerite Young (Author, American , born in 1908) keywords: after, four, hour, midnight, night, nine, six, sleep, teach, until, would , write The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
by Marguerite Young (Author, American , born in 1908) keywords: ever, everything, expressed, first, loss, old, poem, themes, would, write, wrote , years For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
by Cao Yu (Playwright, Chinese , born in 1910) keywords: always, best, during, just, life, remains, short, too, try, will, write , writer But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.
by Dweezil Zappa (Musician, American , born in 1969) keywords: able, acoustic, away, good, guitar, instruments, just, reality, right, should, song, strip, voice , write It was spontaneously composed as I was playing it. And then I added a couple of other overdub textures on top of it after the fact. But it's one of those things where I wouldn't be able to sit down and specifically write that. That's just what came out.
by Dweezil Zappa (Musician, American , born in 1969) keywords: able, added, after, came, composed, couple, down, fact, just, other, out, playing, sit, specifically, spontaneously, textures, then, things, those, top, where , write You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
by Frank Zappa (Musician, American , born in 1940) keywords: always, chord, cream, enough, filled, giraffe, rely, say, sometimes, ugly, want, whipped , write Of course, all of the software I write runs on Linux; that's the beauty of standards, and of cross-platform code. I don't have to run your OS, and you don't have to run mine, and we can use the same applications anyway!
by Jamie Zawinski (Scientist, American , born in 1968) keywords: anyway, applications, beauty, code, course, linux, mine, os, run, runs, same, software, standards, use, write , your I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.
by Roger Zelazny (Writer, American , born in 1937) keywords: day, down, even, five, four, minutes, only, sentences, sit, three, times, try, typewriter , write I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.
by Sarah Zettel (Author, American , born in 1966) keywords: capable, create, did, earth, either, had, invasion, living, mars, meant, moon, nearby, picked, race, story, venus, want, which , write I'm getting ready to write a piece now, and it's been six months thinking about it, changing the instrumentation, changing the name, doing more reading.
by John Zorn (Composer, American , born in 1953) keywords: been, changing, doing, getting, instrumentation, months, more, name, now, piece, reading, ready, six, thinking , write That was my challenge as a composer. Like with anything, to keep yourself interested in doing what you do, you set yourself challenges. So I said, Okay, I'll try to write a hundred tunes in a year.
by John Zorn (Composer, American , born in 1953) keywords: anything, challenge, challenges, composer, doing, hundred, interested, keep, okay, said, set, try, tunes, write, year , yourself Today, for a Jew who writes in the German language, it is totally impossible to make a living. In no group do I see as much misery, disappointment, desperation and hopelessness as in Jewish writers who write in German.
by Stefan Zweig (Writer, Austrian , born in 1881) keywords: desperation, disappointment, german, group, hopelessness, impossible, jew, jewish, language, living, make, misery, much, see, today, totally, write, writers , writes
