Quotes about writ
writing mind connections
When you're sitting down and you're blocked and you just start writing and something in your mind just clicks, you start seeing connections and so on, you really do feel like you're channeling something else. John Hodgman
writing long mind
For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.
writing superhero borges
My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.
writing mean years
More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.
writing years twenties
You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy. John Guare
writing play buttons
You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.
writing eye office
Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done. Ayn Rand
writing people way
You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.
writing sin
It is a sin to write this.
writing lines stills
If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing.
writing focus mind
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
writing creative want
To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.
writing animal men
If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them, animals perish--man writes the Constitution of the United States.
writing thinking order
I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with very great intensity-the greatest intensity of which I am capable-for a few hours or days, and at the end of that time give orders, so to speak (to my subconscious mind) that the work is to proceed underground. After some months I return consciously to the topic and find that the work has been done. Bertrand Russell
writing winning hands
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while other write history. It matters little who wins. Benito Mussolini
writing winning hands
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
writing men thinking
He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet. Benjamin Disraeli
writing discovery language
No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.
writing way subjects
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
writing hands world
The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
writing analysis language
Grammar is the analysis of language. Edgar Allan Poe
writing creative intuition
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes...
writing abandonment conceit
In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.
writing thoughtful reality
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
writing insightful stories
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
writing thinking matter
It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you. Eleanor Holmes Norton
writing thinking folks
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think. Elbert Hubbard
writing helping-others men
Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.
writing men views
There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this; the lovers, or the man and wife, who are not friends are but weakly joined together. One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well. Eleanor Roosevelt
writing want good-times
I want to study, to write to live and have a good time. Ehud Barak
writing order paper
Write a paper promising salvation, make it a structured something or a virtual something, or abstract, distributed or higher-order or applicative and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult. Edsger Dijkstra
writing discovery mind
If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.
writing annoyed betrayed
I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the way he would have. A part of me died with him, a part of him lives with me. Eduardo Galeano