Quotes about writ
writing scope length
The scope of what I have to say determines the length of what I write. Edward M. Lerner
writing thinking gambling
I don't think there's an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It's just that you're standing up. Bill Nighy
writing dissertation
I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation. Bill O'Reilly
writing way serious
The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time. Bill Murray
writing talking paper
Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say. Beryl Bainbridge
writing tree woods
You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen. Bertolt Brecht
writing clothes feelings
I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
writing average long
A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of "correctness". The literary definition would substitute, for the average hearer, a person of high education living a long time ago; the purpose of this definition is to make it difficult to speak or write correctly. Bertrand Russell
writing men history
A man without a bias cannot write interesting history - if indeed such a man exists.
writing men blood
To write tragedy, a man must feel tragedy. To feel tragedy, a man must be aware of the world in which he lives. Not only with his mind, but with his blood and sinews.
writing thinking careers
At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career. Bernard Cornwell
writing occupation solitary
Writing is a solitary occupation.
writing wind sometimes
Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true. Chad Kroeger
writing thinking down-and
Face it, you have to be sort of an egomaniac to write something down and think that anyone is going to want to read it. Cecily von Ziegesar
writing trying care
I'm not trying to write for the masses. I don't care. Cass McCombs
writing musician folk-music
I've always thought about myself as somewhat of a folk musician. I just write words.
writing trying performing
I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.
writing giving people
I write for myself, and I write for my friends and people who I have a connection with. I try to give some dignity to peoples' lifestyles that tend to be ignored.
writing feelings mind
Even if I'm writing music, it's with a lyric in mind, to communicate some kind of feeling.
writing people leader
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember. Carlos Ghosn
writing biographies like-you
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone. Carlos Fuentes
writing literature imagine
In literature, you know only what you imagine
writing fighting opposites
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
writing littles needs
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.
writing angel
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.
writing order stories
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
writing ends dies
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
writing needs imagine
I need, therefore I imagine.
writing white black
The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.
writing years ducks
I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it. Carl Barks
writing harder hard
Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to. Carl Clinton Van Doren
writing use analogies
Sin2 φ is odious to me, even though Laplace made use of it; should it be feared that sin2 φ might become ambiguous, which would perhaps never occur, or at most very rarely when speaking of sin(φ2), well then, let us write (sin φ)2, but not sin2 φ, which by analogy should signify sin (sin φ) Carl Friedrich Gauss
writing trying pieces
We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment. C. S. Lewis