Quotes by Writing What do prisoners do? Write, of course; even if they have to use blood as ink, as the Marquis de Sade did. The reasons they write, the exquisitely frustrating restrictions of their autonomy and the fact that no one listens to their cries, are all the reasons that mentally ill people, and even many normal people write. We write to escape our prisons. Alice Weaver Flaherty writingbloodpeople I've always expressed myself best through writing. I've gotten out all of my deepest feelings that way for as long as I can remember. Alicia Keys feelingswritinglong When I was younger, my mother and I, we'd have these crazy, crazy fights. Everyone would storm out mad, and the only way that I'd be able to express myself was to write her. We would write letters back and forth for days. When I'm writing, I feel uninterrupted. I write what I'm going through and how I see it. Alicia Keys crazymotherwriting When I was first learning songs, I'd have a favorite song, and I'd take the chords and twist them around. I'd learn the chords and then play them backward. That was my first experimenting with writing a song. Alicia Keys playwritingsong I dream about speaking in big forums about issues that need to be spoken about. I dream about helping others who I know and love, helping them realize their dreams. I dream about being able to express myself through acting and writing, definitely. I dream about bringing more realism into the world. Sometimes I just feel like certain things are so glossed over and covered up and swept under the rug and I just want to bring them out. Alicia Keys helping-othersdreamwriting If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom. Alicia Keys sadnesswantwriting Writing in my journal keeps me focused on my spirit and what I need or feel. Alicia Keys spiritwritingneeds The work of Jana Harris is unique in American writing. She has always had a voice of true grit—sometimes harsh, sometimes funny, always close to the bone, tart, and indomitable. Alicia Ostriker voiceuniquewriting I compose my own stuff. I've been writing songs with words. I've been playing more on the keyboard because I can transpose it to sheet music on the computer. Alicia Witt musicwritingsong There's no better teacher for writing than reading... Get a library card. That's the best investment. Alisa Valdes readingwritingteacher The writing is hard, and the drawing is fun. It's very satisfying to see a drawing start to come together. Alison Bechdel drawingwritingfun For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me. Alison Bechdel drawingreasonwriting I tend to write first thing, and then do my drawing later. I like to draw at night. But often I go for long stretches without drawing, because I'm trying to figure out what I'm writing. Alison Bechdel drawingwritingnight Drawing is more fun to me than writing. I think it's interesting to talk to different cartoonists about how those activities work for them. I'm a very writerly cartoonist. I certainly spend more time on the writing than I do on the drawing, even though the drawing, of course, is very time-consuming. Alison Bechdel writingfunthinking Sometimes I wish the writing and drawing were more integrated. Alison Bechdel drawingwishwriting You can't live and write at the same time. Alison Bechdel writing A lot of times students will come up to me and say, "Well, I can't write because I don't know what I think about such-and-such." And I say, "That's why you have to write." You don't wait until you know, because then who cares - it's static. Alison Hawthorne Deming waitingwritingthinking I had real concerns about the relationship between nature and culture and places I wanted to write about... I thought, well, maybe I should try prose. It was a real struggle to begin because, first of all, there were so many words on the page - it was terrifying... Beginning was awful. Alison Hawthorne Deming realstrugglewriting I'm trying to learn something about making a balance between the inner life and the outer life. I wouldn't write if I didn't need to be making those discoveries, if I didn't feel the perpetual ignorance of being a human being. Alison Hawthorne Deming ignorancewritingdiscovery I'm always writing towards a discovery. When I'm writing poems in particular, I'm often writing because a few images coalesced in my mind and I thought, "I wonder why these images are abrading against each other. I wonder what happens if put them in a poem and explore them." I'm trying to learn something every time I write a poem. Alison Hawthorne Deming mindwritingdiscovery«4041424344454647484950»
