Quotes about writ
writing thinking thousand
I just write what I think is good and keep it at a thousand words. Henry Rollins
writing waiting silence
Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul, waiting for true words to come. When they do, you thank God because you know the words are a gift, and you write them down as honestly and cleanly as you can. Helen Prejean
writing play giving
It's true that writing can give new forms to concepts that existed previously with far less clarity, but in terms of the other half of a story's story - the way a story is received and interpreted and used - the audience plays a part in that too. Helen Oyeyemi
writing style trying
I dont have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.
writing choices stories
You write your life story by the choices you make, Helen Mirren
writing fighting ideas
You talk of our having an idea; we do not have an idea. The idea has us, and martyrs us, and scourges us, and drives us into the arena to fight and die for it, whether we want to or not. Heinrich Heine
writing paper pencils
Write . . . write . . . pencil . . . paper.
writing heart mass
If one has no heart, one cannot write for the masses.
writing acting wanted
Acting is just something I always knew I wanted to do - acting and writing. Heather Donahue
writing play journal
I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives. Heather O'Reilly
writing thinking mathematical-logic
I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es! Hilary Putnam
writing pals paper
I like to write paper mail - nobody does that anymore - with my pen pals. Hilarie Burton
writing albums want
I actually didn't want to have control of the writing on my first album. To write, you have to have time to connect with yourself. I don't have that time right now, because I'm so busy. Hilary Duff
writing historical-novels years
Back in my 20s, when I wrote 'A Place of Greater Safety,' the French Revolution novel, I thought, 'I'll always have to write historical novels because I can't do plots.'' But in the six years of writing that novel, I actually learned to write, to invent things. Hilary Mantel
writing wind paper
When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.
writing years firsts
'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.
writing linear novel
I'm a very organised and rational and linear thinker, and you have to stop all that to write a novel.
writing thinking should-have
I think it took me half a page of 'Wolf Hall' to think: 'This is the novel I should have been writing all along.'
writing cutting world
Busyness, I feel increasingly, is the writer's curse and downfall. You read too much and write too readily, you become cut off from your inner life, from the flow of your own thoughts, and turned far too much towards the outside world.
writing thinking historical-novels
You think you're writing one historical novel and it turns into three, and I'm quite used to a short story turning into a novel - that's happened through my whole career.
writing empty worst
Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing. Hilaire Belloc
writing way language
If you can describe clearly without a diagram the proper way of making this or that knot, then you are a master of the English language.
writing army blow
Write as the wind blows and command all words like an army!
writing butterfly blood
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of blood-relationship of the species. As the laws of nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole world. Henry Walter Bates
writing lazy idlers
There is probably no greater idler than myself. And I would consider myself a lazy-bones if I did not write so many volumes, and if I did not admire my diligence once I begin writing. Henryk Sienkiewicz
writing ideas peg
All words are pegs to hang ideas on. Henry Ward Beecher
writing men names
I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter.
writing men victory
It is defeat that turns bone to flint; it is defeat that turns gristle to muscle; it is defeat that makes men invincible. Do not then be afraid of defeat. You are never so near to victory as when defeated in a good cause.
writing thinking creating
Thinking is creating with God, as thinking is writing with the ready writer; and worlds are only leaves turned over in the process of composition, about his throne.
writing media assuming
Just as we would not traditionally assume that someone is literate if they can read but not write, we should not assume that someone possesses media literacy if they can consume but not express themselves Henry Jenkins
writing people trying
If I should certainly say to a novice, 'Write from experience and experience only,' I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, 'Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.' Henry James
writing character novel
What is either a picture or a novel that is not character?
writing thinking evil
Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.