Top 1200 Writing History Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

Nobody in history has won all the titles I've won and the cruiserweight title. I'd be the only man in history. That's when you die and go to Heaven, and God can look at you and know you did everything with the gifts he gave you.

Writing dialogue is like writing a song, which I've done.

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

The interface of history and myth is where my stories take place anyway, and there's always a way I'm trying to tap mythologies with the perfect understanding that history will trump mythology.

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.

I love writing. Writing has been very good to me.

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history; and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

Writing is such a powerful tool. I believe everyone should be writing.

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written.

I think we fool ourselves and really negate a great deal of history if we think that the oral history of poetry is shorter than the written history of poetry. It's not true. Poetry has a longer oral tradition than it does written

As a child growing up in World War II, I was very moved and stirred by what was going on, but I distanced myself from history. I regarded history as just one more subject.

Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.

I have been writing songs since I was 9 years old, so writing has and always will be my first love and passion.

I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I don't want to write fiction that's about the irresponsibility of writing fiction and I've thrown out a lot of writing that I think was ultimately tainted by that kind of self-awareness.

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.

Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In my writing, music's mostly something that feeds my inspiration and mood while I'm writing, but it's also taught me how to score scenes and even novels. The rise and fall of the storyline echoes the flow of a good piece of music.

For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing.

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others.

When I'm writing something, everything falls into place. When I'm not writing, stuff keeps happening to me, and there's nowhere to put it all.

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

The whole history of the last thousands of years has been a history of religious persecutions and wars, pogroms, jihads, crusades. I find it all very regrettable, to say the least.

I do not think you should read about writing while you are writing.

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started flowing.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

In my writing, I want to address all communities, you know. I've spent many years talking about Chicano culture, Chicano history, and at the same time, I've also been in many communities and presented my work in many communities, in many classrooms, and that's where my vision is and my delight is and my heart is.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

The progress of science is much more muddled than is depicted in most history books. This is especially true of theoretical physics, partly because history is written by the victorious.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

When I'm writing the first draft, I'm writing in a very slovenly way: anything to get the outline of the story on paper.

Christ is the most unique person of history. No man can write a history of the human race without giving first and foremost place to the penniless Teacher of Nazareth.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.

To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity.

I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.

I'm not writing for fundamentalists. I'm writing for the people who have been repelled by that kind of thinking and yet who think there might be something they haven't yet discovered.

I've found it really hard to finish writing songs when you're writing on not just your schedule but somebody else's.

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

The writing that I have found to be most false is the writing that doesn't offer hope.

I don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song.

If all history is only an amplification of biography, the history of science may be most instructively read in the life and work of the men by whom the realms of Nature have been successively won.

'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.

If you have a dream of writing, that's wishful thinking. If you have a commitment to writing, that's the way to make your dreams come true.

Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.

I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).

Certainly there is not the fight recorded in Concord history, at least, if in the history of America, that will bear a moment's comparison with this, whether for the numbers engaged in it, or for the patriotism and heroism displayed.

We've yet to deal with the uncomfortable history of England being involved in the transatlantic slave trade, whereas America has at least made some movies dealing with its racial history.

I majored in history and political science at the College of Charleston in South Carolina, and I have always loved researching how a single human being can change the course of history.

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

For all forms, writing dialogue is almost like writing music. I pay close attention to rhythms and tones.

When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.

I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it.