Quotes about writ
writing history sin
Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.] Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
writing originality said
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
writing past history
Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
writing busy idleness
Writing is busy idleness.
writing profound perfect
The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.
writing mind obscurity
He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.
writing history sin
Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
writing long-ago people
People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago. Joel Chandler Harris
writing self paper
Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.
writing waiting records
I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great. Joe Walsh
writing thinking cinema
I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema. Joe Wright
writing way orderly
I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not. Joanna Trollope
writing bad-things knows
I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar. Joaquin Andujar
writing sky awful
I saw the lightnings gleaming rod. Reach forth and write upon the sky The awful autograph of God. Joaquin Miller
writing tonight way
I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way. Joe Rogan
writing way idiot
I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen. Joe Eszterhas
writing cutting thinking
Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life.
writing political want
What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts. Joan D. Vinge
writing perfect goddess
Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.
writing journalism selling
Writers are always selling somebody out. Joan Didion
writing color water
When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more like water color.
writing different fiction
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.
writing answers novel
Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.
writing elements performances
Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.
writing trying doe
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle.
writing thinking
We write to discover what we think.
writing research matter
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.
writing cameras structure
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.
writing catharsis
I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.
writing acting actors
I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.
writing thinking knows
I don't know what I think until I write it down.
writing typewriters use
I use an IBM Thinkpad. I just use it like a typewriter, but when I started using it in 1987, I thought I won't be able to write anymore, so I thought I'd go back to the typewriter. But you couldn't go back to the typewriter after using the computer.
writing looks may
When you write, you're always revealing a difficult part of yourself. It may not be a part of yourself that looks as difficult - there are parts that look more difficult - but in fact, they are all difficult, and you get kind of used to doing that. It is sort of the nature of the thing.