Quotes by Writing Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work. Ai Weiwei warholinterviewswriting As a total activity - I practice curating, art, architecture, writing, and publishing all together. I still act as a living creature. Ai Weiwei practicewritingart I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national enemy of the Communist Party. He was forbidden to write for 20 years. We literally lived underground. We dug a hole and lived there for years. My father cleaned public toilets, even though he was a highly respected poet. Nationality and borders are barriers to our intelligence, to our imagination and to all kinds of possibilities. Ai Weiwei partywritingfather If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter. Ai Weiwei live-for-todayalivewriting We didn't say good bye. But we knew it would be the end if we were apart. There was no reason to call or write letters. As it would have been meaningless, if we couldn't hold each other tight. Ai Yazawa would-bewritingbye Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away. Aidan Chambers writingbookpeople God did not write a book and send it by messenger to be read at a distance by unaided minds. He spoke a Book and lives in His spoken words, constantly speaking His words and causing the power of them to persist across the years. Aiden Wilson Tozer distancewritingbook I find that when people haven't found God and do not know the new birth and the Spirit is not on them, yet they have the ancient impulse to worship something. If they're not educated they kill a chicken and put a funny thing on their head and dance around. If they are educated they write poetry. Aiden Wilson Tozer funny-thingswritingpeople We love the old saints, missionaries, martyrs, and reformers. Our Luthers, Bunyans, Wesleys and Asburys, etc... We will write their biographies, reverence their memories, frame their epitaphs, and build their monuments. We will do anything except imitate them. We cherish the last drop of their blood, but watch carefully over the first drop of our own. Aiden Wilson Tozer writingmemoriesblood Poetry is a rhythmical piece of writing that leaves the reader feeling that life is a little richer than before, a little more full of wonder, beauty, or just plain delight. Aileen Fisher piecesfeelingswriting Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses. Aime Cesaire building-houseswritingbook As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake. Aimee Bender awakedreamwriting It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things. Aimee Bender best-workpageswriting Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn't sustain my interest. Aimee Bender strugglewritingcharacter The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious. Aimee Bender mysteriouswritingthinking Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write. Aimee Bender lovelyfeelingswriting I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time. Aimee Bender kindwritingpeople Comedy is more difficult than drama. I think it's really difficult to make someone laugh because people have very different comedic sensibilities. In drama, you can get away with being a great actor and surrounded by great actors and having good writing. But in comedy you have to listen and you have to perform with a certain rhythm, because if you don't, it's like playing a wrong note in the orchestra and you can hear the off key and it will fall flat and you won't get that instant response. Aimee Garcia writingdramafall It's in the dictionary. And when I find what it is, I'll write it down in case it comes up again, I'll be certain to avoid it. Aimee Mann come-upcaseswriting I wanted to try to write songs on the piano to get a different flavor. Aimee Mann pianowritingsong«1213141516171819202122»
