Quotes by Writing I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet. Adriana Trigiani silence sound writing The most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes. Adriana Trigiani grandparent emotional writing I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up. Adriana Trigiani found writing love-is Writing comedy is the greatest spiritual gift you can give to anybody anytime. Adriana Trigiani spiritual writing giving And when you clear away the cobwebs of the description of every job in the world, at the bottom of that job is service. It's service. And I took that ethic and applied it to my writing craft. Adriana Trigiani writing jobs world Everything has to be clean and orderly when I sit down to write. I have candles going, and small objects that remind me of what I am working on, or bring me into the world of the character. Adriana Trigiani small-objects writing character Alan Moore's writing is almost novelistic. It's very intricate and wordy and smart. Adrianne Palicki intricate smart writing Language is power... Language can be used as a means of changing reality. Adrienne Rich writing mean reality To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist. Adrienne Rich dream writing memories Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone. Adrienne Rich voice stones writing You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it. Adrienne Rich ifs writing You have to give your art everything you can - I don't mean only writing, but studying other poets and poetics, thinking, reading what poets have written other than their poetry. Adrienne Rich reading writing art I long to create something Adrienne Rich writing long knowledge I guess what concerns me always is the need for a field, a rich compost, for any art to flourish. But however isolate or unheard you may feel, if you have the need to write poetry, are compelled to write it, you go on, whether there is resonance or not. Adrienne Rich writing art needs I think of poetry as something out there in the world and within each of us. I don't mean that everyone can write poetry - it's an art, a craft, it requires enormous commitment like any art. But there's a core of desire in each of us and poetry goes to and comes from that core. It's the social, economic, institutional gap that makes it difficult. Adrienne Rich writing mean art You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can be too sacred for the imagination to turn into its opposite or to call experimentally by another name. For writing is re-naming. Adrienne Rich hate writing night I think many poets, including myself, write both for the voice and for the page. I certainly write for the person alone in the library, who pulls down a book and it opens to a poem. I am also very conscious of what it means to read these poems aloud. Adrienne Rich writing mean book ... how have I used rivers, how have I used wars Adrienne Rich freedom writing war We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable. Adrienne Rich white writing history Words are the physicians of a mind diseased. Aeschylus crazy writing art «910111213141516171819»