Quotes by Writing I write because it is while I'm writing that I feel most connected to why we're here. I write because silence is a heavy weight to carry. I write to remember. I write to heal. I write to let the air in. I write as a practice of listening. Andrea Gibson practiceairwriting The trauma said, ‘Don’t write these poems. Nobody wants to hear you cry about the grief inside your bones. Andrea Gibson griefwantwriting Remember, you didn’t come here to write your heart out. You came to write it in. Andrea Gibson remember-youheartwriting I am wrong more often than i am writing and even then i am often wrong Andrea Gibson writing From a building right in front of my windows, I can observe the speed of the sunrises and sunsets. The voices of children playing, laughing, yelling, and crying on the playground crawl up to the eighth floor, where I write. Their voices sound so innocent from a distance. Andrea Hirata distancewritingchildren Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism. Andrea Hirata fightingexpectationswriting A lot of films that have been adapted from books stop serving you because they become different. I mean, they are different entities in themselves, but artistically, what you're trying to achieve with a film is so very different to what you're trying to achieve with a book, and the way when you write a script is so very different on paper to how it seems on a screen. Andrea Riseborough writingmeanbook Becoming an artist does not merely mean learning something, acquiring professional techniques and methods. Indeed, as someone has said, in order to write well you have to forget the grammar. Andrei Tarkovsky writingmotivationalmean If you try to please audiences, uncritically accepting their tastes, it can only mean that you have no respect for them: that you simply want to collect their money. Andrei Tarkovsky writingtryingmean A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s worth something. And if I know for sure that I’m a genius? Why write then? What the hell for? Andrei Tarkovsky doubtwritingmen My favourite author is Leon Trotsky - the political philosophy and the way he writes is beautiful, and really relevant, too. Andrej Pejic writingbeautifulphilosophy When I began, the guitar was en-closed in a vicious circle. There were no composers writing for the guitar, be-cause there were no virtuoso guitarists. Andres Segovia guitarcircleswriting "March" was inspired by "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story." I actually first heard about that comic from John Lewis, who told me that it played an important role in the movement. And so once he told me about that, it made me start thinking, "Well, why doesn't John Lewis write his own comic book?". Andrew Aydin kingswritingbook I spent almost two years working on this book ['March'] before we ever had a publisher, before we ever had a title. And when you're reading it, and you're writing it, and you're ingesting it, sometimes a single word just comes up over and over and over again. And if you're trying to capture the essence of what it is you're trying to tell, you don't have a whole lot of space. Andrew Aydin readingwritingbook I went on to write my graduate thesis on the ["Montgomery Story"] comic book itself. It was the first long-form history that was ever written about it. And it's how I found out Martin Luther King actually helped edit "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story." Andrew Aydin kingswritingbook I spent 10 years in professional politics and eight writing comics, and so I look at it from both sides. I don't understand the logic in being frustrated with a system, so you choose to be a part of the reason why the system is so frustrating. If everybody voted, it wouldn't be this way. Andrew Aydin eightwritingyears I still kind of believe this absurd line that if you have to write it down, it's not worth remembering. Andrew Bird lineswritingbelieve I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes. Andrew Bird enjoywritingsometimes I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated. Andrew Bird motivatedhopefulwriting I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords. Andrew Bird chordsfitwriting«6061626364656667686970»
