Quotes about writ
writing people clarity
And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them. F. L. Lucas
writing brain needs
install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time. Ezra Pound
writing criticism literature
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
writing musical phrases
Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.
writing people empires
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
writing way soap
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
writing expression land
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction.
writing pounds language
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
writing adequate natural
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.
writing fundamentals crafts
Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.
writing secret lap
The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.
writing schedules hours
I write every day. I don't have a writing schedule. I write when I feel like it. Fortunately I feel like it all the time. I am writing for hours. Eve Bunting
writing interesting worry
I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that feels good. Eve Ensler
writing character thinking
I think being an activist and an artist is an interesting contradiction, because so often they are at odds with one another. When you write as an artist you have to clean the palate of your own politics in creating characters and activism is kind of the exact opposite.
writing passion voice
Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and resistance. There is nothing better than that.
writing exercise self
But poets were not considered dangerous and they were advised to exercise self-censorship. At most, poets were requested not to write at all. I took advantage of this negative liberty. Eugenio Montale
writing connections poet
There is poetry even in prose, in all the great prose which is not merely utilitarian or didactic: there exist poets who write in prose or at least in more or less apparent prose; millions of poets write verses which have no connection with poetry.
writing doe poet
The poet does not know - often he will never know - whom he really writes for.
writing romantic-love play
[Her] love and tenderness ... gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at last and write this play-write it with deep pity and understanding and forgiveness for all the four haunted Tyrones. Eugene O'Neill
writing light play
Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.
writing vacation
Writing is my vacation from living.
writing years people
I just admire people like Woody Allen, who every year writes an original screenplay. It's astonishing. I always wished that I could do that. Francis Ford Coppola
writing asking able
I know that if a film is ready to emerge out of what I write, I'll be able to go off and make it without asking anyone's permission.
writing proud
I'm very proud of my flops, as much as of my successes.
writing men want
I wanted to be a film student again, as a man in my 60s. To go someplace alone and see what you can cook up, with non-existent budgets. I didn't want to be surrounded by comforts and colleagues, which you have when when you're a big time director. I wanted to write personal works.
writing thought-provoking needs
I've never felt a need to really respond to someone else's writing. Francis Chan
writing lord certain
There are just certain times I sense the Lord is wanting me to write, and so I write.
writing blessing church
It's easy to write for God and about God, because what a thrill to remind the church that the Holy Spirit of God is in you. What a rush! What an amazing blessing!
writing way reason
That is one of the reasons I write: to feel the Presence of God and know He is speaking to me in a very personal way, instructing me, correcting me, redirecting me. Francine Rivers
writing thinking twelve
If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in. Francine Prose
writing garden rose
If we want to write, it makes sense to read—and to read like a writer. If we wanted to grow roses, we would want to visit rose gardens and try to see them the way that a rose gardener would.
writing facts fiction
Fact-checking is so boring compared to writing fiction.
writing skills choices
Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the final result of countless large and small deliberations. All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. And what grabs and keeps our interest has everything to do with those choices.