Quotes by Writing Every year I used to write a musical inspired by John Waters, and I would get all my friends together and put on this perverse, emotional, tragic musical. Antony Hegarty emotionalwritingyears If I could write a letter to my teenage self I'd probably say something like: "You ain't gonna believe what will become of you." Antony Sher teenagewritingbelieve When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well. Antony Sher drawingwritingpeople Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy. Antony Sher strugglewritingbook Fiction ought to announce the problems, dramatize the problems, display them. Yet offer no set answer. An answer would solve the mystery. Writing fiction, for me, is about putting on paper my obsessive interest in something mysterious. I may figure out the source of the mystery, the things that brought some action or image to my mind, but to make an equation of it would ruin the story. Antonya Nelson mindwritingmay Writing is a completely private act. It's in a way like play but very serious play, and sometimes I can escape into the fictional world that I'm creating so fully as to see hours go by without my noticing it. I think that kind of suspension of time and that mindfulness is a real gift. Antonya Nelson realwritingthinking Real people conceive originality then think, write but never read of others' posts to copy to follow and the copycats follow exactly the opposite direction i.e. read of others' posts, write but never think and conceive originality. Anuj realwritingthinking I think about my films for a long time, maybe years, but I write them in days. Anurag Kashyap writingyearsthinking I play the piano and write music. Anwar Robinson pianoplaywriting It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it. Aoife O'Donovan morbidwritingthinking When I look at commercial studios, I think, "Oh, they're all so nice and tidy," but it's because they don't actually write music in them. Aphex Twin nicewritingthinking I don't just strictly sample. I build. I'm a musician: I play piano and drums, I read notes, I write music. AraabMuzik pianoplaywriting Too much of Indian writing in English, it seemed to me, consisted of middle-class people writing about other middle-class people - and a small slice of life being passed off as an authentic portrait of the country. Aravind Adiga writingclasscountry When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this novel, and the people in the book are the people I lived with back then. So I didn't have to do much research to find them. Aravind Adiga whitewritingbook In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need to do as a journalist is so different. It has to be clear, unambiguous, concise, and as a writer often you are trying to do things that are more ambiguous. I find that writing fiction is often an antidote to reading and writing too much journalism. Aravind Adiga readingwritingtrying It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does. Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook challengeswritingart When I began making art, I just thought I liked it. As a woman who was placed in spaces with various conditions, conventions, and restrictions on self-expression, turning to art - whether visual art, writing novels, or writing articles - was to gain freedom from the space around me. Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook selfwritingart When women are seen with pen in hand, they are met immediately with shrieks commanding a return to that life of pain which their writing had interrupted, a life devoted to the women's work of needle and distaff. Arcangela Tarabotti painwritinghands Writers . . . write to give reality to experience. Archibald MacLeish writinggivingreality If the poem can be improved by the author's explanations, it never should have been published. Archibald MacLeish explanationshould-havewriting«102103104105106107108109110111112»
