Quotes about writ
writing looks way
I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways. Fran Lebowitz
writing magazines want
When I started publishing, I got offers to write for big magazines. But I would always say, "Well, it's not that I don't want to write for these big magazines, but you can't edit it."
writing use pages
In conversation you can use timing, a look, an inflection. But on the page all you have is commas, dashes, the amount of syllables in a word. When I write, I read everything out loud to get the right rhythm.
writing punishment screenwriting
Screenwriting is not an artform, it is a punishment from God.
writing careers letters
Contrary to what many of you may imagine, a career in letters is not without its drawbacks - chief among them the unpleasant fact that one is frequently called upon to sit down and write.
writing reviews columns
For the movie review columns, I always knew exactly what I was going to write about - the movies.
writing should easier
You should make it hard on yourself to write so you’re easier to read.
writing opposites long
I have the exact opposite problem of every writer I've ever met: Every writer I've ever met writes things that are too long, and they have to edit them down.
writing people tvs
I'm not a nervous person. I'm not afraid to be on TV. I'm only afraid when I write. When I'm at my desk I feel like most people would feel if they went on TV.
writing mines
There is nothing more mine than my writing, nothing I'm more proprietary about.
writing thinking hard-times
I have a hard time writing. Most writers have a hard time writing. I have a harder time than most because I'm lazier than most. [...] The other problem I have is fear of writing. The act of writing puts you in confrontation with yourself, which is why I think writers assiduously avoid writing. [...] Not writing is more of a psychological problem than a writing problem. All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. [...] It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. Especially when it goes on for years. It's much more relaxing actually to work.
writing thinking six
Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.
writing profession exhausting
Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.
writing fate car
If, while watching the sun set on a used-car lot in Los Angeles, you are struck by the parallels between this image and the inevitable fate of humanity, do not, under any circumstances, write it down.
writing criminals horrible
All the time I'm not writing I feel like a criminal. It's horrible to feel felonious every second of the day. It's much more relaxing to actually write.
writing tables fame
The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.
writing glasses effort
I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I could use. ... [The early efforts were] worked out almost wholly on top of my flat topped writing desk and with teacups, glasses, bottles and reagents I made myself. George Washington Carver
writing thinking persona
I think it's basically the same game, although with a public figure like [Donald] Trump I think you are bound to consider the public persona rather than the private one. At least that was the case with that piece of writing. George Saunders
writing thinking style
I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies.
writing adventure young-friends
Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age. In writing Dialogues in Limbo, The Last Puritan, and now all these descriptions of the friends of my youth and the young friends of my middle age, I have drunk the pleasure of life more pure, more joyful than it ever was when mingled with all the hidden anxieties and little annoyances of actual living. Nothing is inherently and invincibly young except spirit. And spirit can enter a human being perhaps better in the quiet of old age and dwell there more undisturbed than in the turmoil of adventure. George Santayana
writing-history needs historian
History is always written wrong, and so always needs to be rewritten.
writing people political
Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened. George Orwell
writing good-writing thrive
Good writing is like a windowpane.
writing effort leaving
By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself.
writing window-panes should
Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.
writing successful artist
Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.
writing people frightened
Good novel are written by people who are not frightened.
writing political-language trying
A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?
writing trying remember
I don't remember a lot of what I write. I try to release it after it's out there so that I can be fresh again. George Meyer
writing reality balls
Experience as much as you can and absorb a lot of reality. Otherwise, your writing will have the force of a Wiffle ball.
writing one-thing
I am one thing, my writings are another. Friedrich Nietzsche
writing thinking thinker
Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.
writing imagination might
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. Franklin P. Adams