Quotes by Writing It's a complex thing when you're writing a novel, because so much of it is conscious and planned and deliberate, and so much of it is not, and it has to be a dance between the conscious and the unconscious. I bring my best instincts to my work. For instance - and I come by this naturally, or I think I do - I am a very good judge of character. Benjamin Alire Saenz writingcharacterthinking Even when I interviewed bands, it was about asking them about writing songs, so it was more for me than anybody else. Benjamin Booker bandwritingsong You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write. Benjamin Booker clarityunderstandingwriting The old idea of a composer suddenly having a terrific idea and sitting up all night to write it is nonsense. Nighttime is for sleeping. Benjamin Britten sleepwritinginspiring As I search the archives of my memory I seem to discern six types or methods [of judicial writing] which divide themselves from one another with measurable distinctness. There is the type magisterial or imperative; the type laconic or sententious; the type conversational or homely; the type refined or artificial, smelling of the lamp, verging at times upon preciosity or euphuism; the demonstrative or persuasive; and finally the type tonsorial or agglutinative, so called from the shears and the pastepot which are its implements and emblem. Benjamin Cardozo writingmemoriespast That's how I always try to start my thoughts. I write them down first, eventually it turns into a poem, and if I feel like composing something to it, then I do that. Benjamin Clementine writingtryingfirsts I wasn't quite used to writing a diary - I didn't understand why people did it - but I wrote down notes and they went into a poem. Benjamin Clementine diarieswritingpeople Composing was more difficult than writing things down. Benjamin Clementine writing-things-downdifficultwriting I was lucky to have read a lot of poetry when I was younger; it helped me to remember a way to write. Benjamin Clementine luckywritingway I like it when cities are melancholic. When it started snowing for example, I felt very lonely. I felt very comfortable and very relaxed. When that happens, I write. So I've been writing, not a lot, but I'm inspired everyday. Benjamin Clementine lonelycitieswriting The experience that I had in Paris I could never have ever again in my life. This is when I grew up as a young man. I was independent. There was no one there to talk to; I didn't even want to talk to anyone. I started to write about what I was experiencing, and I had no choice, so I was never scared. Benjamin Clementine independentwritingmen When I started writing again, especially when I listened to French music and Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, I realized that these lots talked about themselves. The greatest artists, they didn't sing; they only spoke. Benjamin Clementine bobartistwriting The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it. Benjamin Disraeli subjectswritingway He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet. Benjamin Disraeli writingmenthinking When I want to read a novel, I write one. Benjamin Disraeli inspirationreadingwriting No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language. Benjamin Disraeli languagewritingdiscovery I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that "except the Lord build they labor in vain that build it." I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel Benjamin Franklin writingbelievefall The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense. Benjamin Franklin politicswritinginspirational I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, — whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it is not given our fallen nature to understand. Benjamin Franklin angelflowerwriting The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing. Benjamin Franklin nextwritinglife«138139140141142143144145146147148»
