Quotes by Writing The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one's feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously. Agnes de Mille dancewinningwriting Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in it; I started what then became a movement. Agnes Denes writingartthinking One thing that's paramount in my life is that I am alone. I'm a loner. And yet I have many friends and I don't feel lonely. And I even like my own company. But when I'm alone, it's to read or write. I'm in my thoughts. Mostly I'm learning. Agnes Denes lonerlonelywriting Words are changing. I find that old expressions are outdated, so when I write something, I try to find a new expression that hasn't been born yet. It's difficult. Agnes Denes expressionwritingtrying Why do so many ingenious theorists give fresh reasons every year for the decline of letter writing, and why do they assume, in derision of suffering humanity, that it has declined? They lament the lack of leisure, the lack of sentiment ... They talk of telegrams, and telephones, and postal cards, as if any discovery of science, any device of civilization, could eradicate from the human heart that passion for self-expression which is the impelling force of letters. Agnes Repplier passionheartwriting A villain must be a thing of power, handled with delicacy and grace. He must be wicked enough to excite our aversion, strong enough to arouse our fear, human enough to awaken some transient gleam of sympathy. We must triumph in his downfall, yet not barbarously nor with contempt, and the close of his career must be in harmony with all its previous development. Agnes Repplier careersstrongwriting Personally, I do not believe that it is the duty of any man or woman to write a novel. In nine cases out of ten, there would be greater merit in leaving it unwritten. Agnes Repplier writingmenbelieve real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another. Agnes Repplier realhumanitywriting Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity. Agnes Repplier generositywritingmen If there's one thing that can save the novel, it is to make it independent of cinema, to narrate in a way that cinema can never narrate, using to its benefit those particular characteristics which belong to writing. Agustin Fernandez Mallo independentnovelwriting The Holocaust is a central event in many people's lives, but it also has become a metaphor for our century. There cannot be an end to speaking and writing about it. Besides, in Israel, everyone carries a biography deep inside him. Aharon Appelfeld israelwritingpeople A story is not only meaning, it's music as well. Aharon Appelfeld wellsstorieswriting I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes. Aharon Appelfeld catastrophemetaphorwriting If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too? Ahdaf Soueif spacewritingpeople I find it very difficult not to write in any sort of Sudanese style. With Sudanese music, there are very specific things that happen with the syncopation of the drums, melodies and stuff. And whenever I write, that's always the first thing that comes out, because I grew up listening to it. It's a part of me, so I try to bring that out in the music. I think that you have to be honest with what you do, and that's the most honest thing that I can do, is to write that way. Ahmed Gallab stylewritingthinking To take part in the African revolution, it is not enough to write a revolutionary song. You must fashion the revolution with the people. And if you fashion it with the people, the songs will come by themselves. Ahmed Sekou Toure fashionwritingsong Whenever a songwriter writes a big hit, then the next 20 songs they write - no matter how bad they are - get recorded. Ahmet Ertegun matterwritingsong The songwriters whom we think of being the greatest songwriters usually write one hit and six or seven flops. Ahmet Ertegun sixwritingthinking I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick. Ahmet Zappa dreamwritingbook The way this whole novel thing came together was, I sold them one bill of goods and then didn't communicate very well. I am like Captain Run-on Sentence. Ahmet Zappa writingrunningtalking«1112131415161718192021»
