![The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on your laptop, but you need to have a limber mind and you need to be able to write without judging what you've written, at least right away, and without editing right away.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-thing-for-someone-just-starting-off-in-writing-is-to-write-you-need-to-hav.jpg)
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writing people leader
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember. Carlos Ghosn
writing biographies like-you
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. Carlos Fuentes
writing literature imagine
In literature, you know only what you imagine
writing fighting opposites
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
writing littles needs
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.
writing angel
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.
writing order stories
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
writing ends dies
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
writing needs imagine
I need, therefore I imagine.
editing hate sitting
I hate sitting around and waiting; that's why I always have an editing suite on set. Til Schweiger
editing earth film
Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too. Brian Eno
editing solitude directors
A lot of directors prefer the solitude of the editing process, but I revel in the craziness of what a film set is. Alan Parker
editing kitchen rooms
I always feel like the editing room is like coming into the kitchen. What kind of a meal do you make from there? It can be anything. Brit Marling
editing numbers negative
I confess that Roy [Stryker] was a little bit dictatorial in his editing and he ruined quite a number of my pictures, which he stopped doing later. He used to punch a hole through a negative. Some of them were incredibly valuable. He didn't understand at the time. Ben Shahn
editing reading-poetry needs
Poetry is everywhere; it just needs editing. James Tate
editing somewhere-else actors
In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth. Campbell Scott
editing casting stuff
I spend a lot of time in preproduction working with authors, and a lot of time in postproduction.: editing, music, all that sort of stuff. Casting. On the set there's not a lot for me to do. Charlie Kaufman
editing waiting done
And then to see the whole movie, you're pretty much waiting until the end of production. And the major lifting in terms of editing and all that stuff is done before you shoot the movie. That's an unusual way to work.
judging bangs ends
It's difficult to end with bangs if the judge takes away our ammunition. Carl Douglas
judging bears dens
See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions. C. S. Lewis
judging judge-me critics
I wished critics would judge me as an author, not as a woman. Charlotte Bronte
judging people leader
The leader must aim high, see big, judge widely, thus setting himself apart form the ordinary people who debate in narrow confines. Charles de Gaulle
judging fancy taste
'Do you spell it with a 'V' or a 'W'?' inquired the judge. 'That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord'. Charles Dickens
judging lawyer chosen
"Lawyers Are": The only civil delinquents whose judges must of necessity be chosen from (amongst) themselves. Charles Caleb Colton
judging democracy popularity
Popularity and democracy aren't a judge, they're just stats. Ricky Gervais
judging people conviction
People will judge you according to your own convictions. Dexter Scott King
judging people fields
They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity. David Sedaris