Quotes about writ
writing add few-words
I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract. I work and fiddle and keep working and fiddling, and I only stop at the deadline. Ellen Goodman
writing imagination vivid
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember. Ellen Glasgow
writing painful found
I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.
writing self independence
I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
writing light ideas
In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision--the precious rays of light shining from the throne. Ellen G. White
writing bridges simplicity
Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code. Eric S. Raymond
writing reuse knows
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)
writing thinking people
So for everything I do, I'm very clear about what I'm doing, and I tell people what it's about. They get a sense of what I'm thinking. I don't let people think I'm going to write something in praise in the meatpacking industry, and then they read it and it's actually attacking the meatpacking industry. Eric Schlosser
writing views trying
Point of view is present in anything I write, but I really try to let the subject and facts speak for themselves.
writing loss thinking
Years ago when I got stuck, I'd start twirling my hair. That's not possible anymore. I can't prove the relationship between writing and hair loss, but I think I pulled out a fair amount trying to work on certain sentences.
writing wish ifs
If you wish to write, write. Epictetus
writing wish needs
If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.
writing would-be reader
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
writing ego enough
Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other. Epicurus
writing soul paint
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul. Emily Carr
writing essence want
It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.
writing feel-better feelings
Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint.
writing soul stronger
There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.
writing common
I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person. Emily Giffin
writing character trying
I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.
writing enthusiasm said
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson
writing men arms
Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score. Elmer Bernstein
writing paper matter
A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters. Elmore Leonard
writing use way
Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any way) is a mortal sin. The writer is now exposing himself in earnest, using a word that distracts and can interrupt the rhythm of the exchange.
writing stories sense-of-humor
I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.
writing thinking ideas
If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing.
writing stories invisible
It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.
writing thinking years
After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right, it's still a pleasure.
writing trying reader
I try to leave out the parts readers skip.
writing bucks posterity
I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.
writing sound
Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.
writing narrative jazz
I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment.
writing important sound
My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.