Quotes by Writing Writers aren't born, they're made - from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. Alexander Chee readingpracticewriting I've been told it's hard to write about singing. I didn't realize that going into it. I might not have tried if I knew! Alexander Chee singingwritingmight With my family background - my parents were both activists - writing about culture and politics came naturally. Alexander Chee parentwritingculture I grew up treating a life as a writer as a career in letters, one devoted to many kinds of writing. And so it seemed normal to study both fiction writing and the literary essay as an undergrad. Alexander Chee normalcareerswriting It's my experience that people don't think of fiction writing as being as intellectually serious as other kinds of writing in academia and so without a career as a critic or essayist you can be treated as something of a spiritual medium - a fraud - for "just" writing fiction. Alexander Chee spiritualwritingthinking Cockburn's personal history links him to the politics of the Communist Party, and there are still moments in his writing - debating the number of people estimated to have perished in Stalin's gulags, claiming that 'the Brezhnev years were a Golden Age for the Soviet working class', when aspects of his father's convictions can be glimpsed. Alexander Cockburn partywritingfather Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write. Alexander Downer historiangoodnesswriting I believe what I write to be the truth...every man who is not indifferent to the truth has a weakness for spreading it about. Alexander Herzen writingmenbelieve We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore. Alexander Kluge writingbooktelevision When you have finished analyzing all the variations and gone along all the branches of the tree of analysis you must first of all write the move down on your score sheet, before you play it. Alexander Kotov playwritingmoving If your opponent is short (on time), play just as you played earlier in the game. If you are short keep calm, I repeat, don't get flustered. Keep up the same neat writing of the moves, the same methodical examination of variations, but at a quicker rate. Alexander Kotov writingtimemoving I actually write my own music whenever I have a chance. I play guitar and sing. Alexander Ludwig guitarplaywriting I'm releasing a single. It's called 'Live it Up.' It was based on my Euro trip. I only write my own music. I don't let other people write it at all. So I've been working on that a lot. There's three singles coming out. The producer of The Fray who did their double-platinum album 'How to Save a Life,' I'm working with him. He's producing me. Alexander Ludwig albumswritingpeople My favorite travel pastime is writing music, either with my guitar or on my computer. Alexander Ludwig computerguitarwriting I write four books a year. I'm very fortunate that I write quickly; around 3,500 words a day. Being strict about delineating my writing time and personal life, as well as keeping distractions at bay, is the only way I can accomplish this. Alexander McCall Smith writingbookyears Life consists of positive and negative features, and I think that it is permissible to write about both. Alexander McCall Smith writingnegativethinking If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write and write and then write again. persist. And never be put off or discouraged. You can do it! Alexander McCall Smith writingtwobook I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate in being able to write quickly - 1000 words an hour. Alexander McCall Smith writingmeanbook What is this you write- 'Come home? Surely now, in our terrible dearth of workers, it is not the time for any one to desert his post. Send us only our first twenty men and I may be tempted to come to help you to find the second twenty. Alexander Murdoch Mackay homewritingmen I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing. Alexander Payne moviewritingmean«3132333435363738394041»
