Quotes about writ
writing authorship ability
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.] Horace
writing gains applause
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
writing parent firsts
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
writing foundation source
Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]
writing past needs
I keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kind of prod myself again into come on, Herbie, get off your duff and start writing some new music. Herbie Hancock
writing science europe
Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to all other parts of the globe, yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so. Herbert Spencer
writing style speech
To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.
writing literature impossible
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. Herman Melville
writing rights doors
If confirmed, [Judge of the Supreme Court] will write the words that will either broaden or narrow our rights for the rest of your working life. You will be interpreting the Constitution in which we as a people place our faith and on which our freedoms as a nation rest. And on a daily basis, the words of your opinions will affect countless individuals as they seek protection behind the courthouse doors. Herb Kohl
writing
I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. Henry David Thoreau
writing self risk
A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
writing hands style
Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.
writing successful giving
The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.
writing liberty narrative
We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.
writing men thinking
Let no one think that I do not love the old ministers. They were, probably, the best men in their generation, and they deserve that their biographies should fill the pages of the town histories. If I could but hear the "glad tidings" of which they tell, and which, perchance, they heard, I might write in a worthier strain than this.
writing poetry today
The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.
writing deeds may
Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.
writing men speak-english
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.
writing vision peers
The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.
writing hands given
The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.
writing gusto wells
We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.
writing luck literature
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
writing men style
Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible,--as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no more than the stylus, the pen he writes with; and it is not worth scraping and polishing, and gilding, unless it will write his thoughts the better for it. It is something for use, and not to look at. The question for us is, not whether Pope had a fine style, wrote with a peacock's feather, but whether he uttered useful thoughts.
writing talking breathing
It's not what you do. It's the way you do it-stripping, or writing, or talking . . . or just breathing. Do it with an air, and never admit you're scared. Gypsy Rose Lee
writing decided knows
I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided. Gyorgy Ligeti
writing together bars
I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.
writing discovery joy
There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident. H. L. Mencken
writing blow trying
You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.
writing projects aim
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
writing soul desire
The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.
writing easier exciting
It's exciting to do something you're writing. And it's also a lot easier to memorize because you wrote it. Jillian Bell
writing thinking people
I think the hardest part of writing anything is getting exposition out easily, without hitting people over the head with it.
writing hip-hop musical
I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop. Jill Scott