Aria Quote by Stephen Greenblatt

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

— Stephen Greenblatt

The real writing of a piece comes only when you are performing it. It is why I like theatre. In film and TV, the…

— Robert Lepage

My acting, writing, performance - keep me on my toes.

— Soni Razdan

I've been on shows where they're just setting it up, and they're trying to find the tone of the writing and performance. That's always…

— Miranda Otto

...writing is not a performance but a generosity.

— Brenda Ueland

Writing is a performance art for me. They're very closely aligned, writing and performing. But I'm a writer, not a performer.

— Clive James

Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that…

— Paul Laseau

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also…

— Jacqueline Briskin

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Exercise the writing muscle every day.

— Jane Yolen

To have a successful writing career, you must be willing to sacrifice a great deal. The book, the deadline come first before anything else.…

— Virginia Henley

There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to…

— Charles Caleb Colton