Culture Quote by Genesis P-Orridge

"Writing" is the Latin of our times. The modern language of the people is video and sound.

— Lawrence Lessig

Writing is the action of thinking, just as drawing is the action of seeing and composing music is the action of hearing.

— Brenda Ueland

Writing is a craft and, like all craft, proceeds by stages: conception, material selection, rough shaping, detailed shaping, sanding and finishing.

— Richard Rhodes

Writing is the hammer & chisel that breaks down the established way of thinking. A concrete event, then an abstraction. An image, then a…

— Diane Glancy

Writing, of course, is writing, acting comes from the theater, and cinematography comes from photography. Editing is unique to film. You can see something…

— Stanley Kubrick

Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release…

— Robert Creeley

Writing is both bomb and bomb disposal-a necessary shattering of cliche and assumption, and a powerful defusing of the soul-destroying messages of modern life…

— Jeanette Winterson

A written word gets preserved in so many forms. But movies which comprise of both audio and visuals have to be done with care…

— Mani Ratnam

When I was first writing, I used to sit at the piano and play songs - I'd write one or two a night. It…

— Kate Bush

Writing is an art, just like any other creative exercise - painting a picture, singing a song or dancing. It is an expression of…

— Sudha Murty

Writing is a performance, like singing an aria or dancing a jig

— Stephen Greenblatt

Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex…

— Alex Kapranos