Quotes by category:Writing

When I create I don't think in technical or mathematical terms until the idea is formulated Musical composition is formulated in improvisation. Once a pianist like myself sits down and begins to play and start thinking about what I am writing all of a sudden a little tune will emerge, a little spot light and I'll go, "That's interesting."

light writing thinking

Film writing and concert writing are two very different things. In film writing I am serving the film and it tells you what to write. I have to stay within the parameters of the film. In writing concert music for the stage I can write anything I want and in this day and modern age rules can be broken.

broken writing two

Everything is written in my mind, more so due to my lack of vision at this point. After years of vigorous writing, it was more of a challenge to do it without paper or sidekicks. I enjoy a good challenge.

challenges writing years

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal. by Abba Eban

A nation writes its history in the image of its ideal.

diversity justice writing

I only make notes, I don't write dialogues in full. And the notes are very much based on my knowledge of person.

Abbas Kiarostami

notes dialogue writing

I never intended to write poems, nor to be a photographer, nor to be a film-maker. I just took many, many pictures and I would put them in an album, and then some years later I decided to show them and suddenly I was called a photographer. Same thing with my poetry. They're notes that I'd written in a book and it may be considered poetry.

Abbas Kiarostami

writing book years

I think I'm no different to my friends who are doctors or businessmen or architects - we all started watching films of the golden age together. But whether I'm making films or writing poetry or doing photography, it's very much rooted in my sense of unease. And that's really where everything goes back to.

Abbas Kiarostami

photography writing thinking

You're everything I write about in songs, but can never have." -J... by Abbi Glines

You're everything I write about in songs, but can never have." -Jax

writing song

You're everything I write about in songs, but can never have." -J... by Abbi Glines

You're everything I write about in songs, but can never have." -Jax

writing song

Write every day. Writing is a muscle that gets stronger with use. by Abbi Glines

Write every day. Writing is a muscle that gets stronger with use.

stronger use writing

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray... by Abbie Cornish

I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere.

pieces paper writing

I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting. by Abby Elliott

I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.

focus acting writing

There are some different things I'm writing and developing, but I don't know where they'll go. They're fun stuff that I would be in and are written in my voice, for me.

voice writing fun

The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own han... by Abdallah II

The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.

writing hands world

Allah is in Himself the non-being and the being, the inexistent and the existent. He is at the same time that which we designate by absolute non-being and by absolute being; or by relative non-being and relative being. . . . All these designation come back to God alone, for there is nothing which we can perceive, know, write or say which is not Him.

Abdelkader El Djezairi

perceive writing time

The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter, by Abdelkebir Khatibi

The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter,

Abdelkebir Khatibi

letters writing

People think that I only write about homosexuality, but that's no... by Abdellah Taia

People think that I only write about homosexuality, but that's not true.

writing people thinking

I started to write because of my dream to become a filmmaker. I got to know about a film school in Paris and it was my goal to get there. To do that I knew I had to learn French. In order to practice I started to write journals in French. The effort I made to master what I regarded a bad thing - a language owned by the rich Moroccans - brought me the ability to write.

dream writing school

Writing and making films aren't different things to me. Or maybe it has become so, now. Making film is a very long process and you have to be physically strong. The literary work is more mystical, because it's only the writer, and connected to something inside.

strong writing long

The importance is getting to something truthful and in that moment can only be in that moment. I don't like to use the word "improvise," but it's a continual writing of the film.

Abdellatif Kechiche

truthful use writing

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