Writing Quote by Anton Chekhov Download Open image ““Write whatever you like. If you haven't the facts, substitute lyricism.”” — Anton Chekhov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
“Once we reject lyricism, to blacken a page becomes an ordeal: what’s the use of writing in order to say exactly what we had… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“To me, lyrics are harder to write when you have to invent the feelings behind them. That's when lyrics take a lot of thought,… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“No matter who you are, or what side of the tracks society thinks you are from, if you wake up wanting to write, then… — Lydia Rodriguez-Clement Copy Share Image
“I’m lyrically illiterate. Actually, more accurately, I can’t read music.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
“Stop. Watch. Listen. There’s poetry all over. And the thing about poetry? It don’t write itself.” — Bethany House Publishers Copy Share Image
“Words are most important. I never wanted to write a song about nothing. After all, the impulse towards music is at its heart an… — Kevan Duke Copy Share Image
“Some writers, no matter how good they are, can't speak to us. Something about the way they see the world, I think, string sentences… — David Bowker Copy Share Image
I really don't like writing lyrics. It's totally a mandatory thing. It's like homework. — Max Cavalera Copy Share Image
“To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the music the words make.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“And when a song is good, a standard, we recognize it as expressing a truth. Like a formula, it can apply to everyone, not… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“The more I discovered the lyrical quality of our lives, the more my own life became a web of fiction.” — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Using vile means to attain worthy ends makes the ends themselves vile. Let them ride on the backs of doctors and medical assistants, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments ,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“But here was all the timorousness and angularity of inexperienced youth, a feeling of awkwardness, and an impression of bewilderment, as if someone had… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“At the water's edge, barrels of pitch blazed like huge bonfires. Their reflection, crimson as the rising moon, crept to meet us in long,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
Anna Petrovna: Never talk to women about your own good qualities. Let them find out for themselves. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
While you're playing cards with a regular guy or having a bite to eat with him, he seems a peaceable, good-humoured and not entirely… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“Lebedev: France has a clear and defined policy... The French know what they want. They just want to wipe out the Krauts, finish, but… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“My holy of holies are the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and the most absolute freedom - freedom from force and falsity,… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“What we have, we do not treasure,” and what’s more we do not even love it.” — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
