Quotes about writ
writing lessons firsts
If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen. Horton Foote
writing past thinking
But I don't really write to honor the past. I write to investigate, to try to figure out what happened and why it happened, knowing I'll never really know. I think all the writers that I admire have this same desire, the desire to bring order out of chaos.
writing most-powerful written
What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am. Hortense Calisher
writing phrases stories
It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you see, and it seems to me that the poem or the story or the novel you write is the kind of metaphor you cast on life.
writing mind shapes
The words! I collected them in all shapes and sizes and hung them like bangles in my mind.
writing ideas acting
This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out.
writing dark light
When I write, I am not giving a lecture, I am speculating on behavior. Sometimes this is dangerous, but it should be. As I say often, theatre is a dark place and we should keep the light out of it. Howard Barker
writing secret sound
The secret of all good writing is sound judgment. Horace
writing thinking transcription
Literally, I see my writing as transcription - a transcription of what I see, hear, think, live. Hank Azaria
writing want type
I know exactly what I want to write. I do not write until I do. Usually I write it all down only once. And that goes relatively quickly, since it really depends only on how fast I type. Hannah Arendt
writing excellence
For excellence, the presence of others is always required.
writing singing kind
I love playing and I love singing, and the writing. There's kind of a symbiotic relationship between the writing and the playing. Guy Clark
writing lasts firsts
Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident. Guy Garvey
writing small-numbers drunk
Among the small number of things that I have liked and known how to do well, what I have assuredly known how to do best is drink. Even though I have read a lot, I have drunk even more. I have written much less than most people who write; but I have drunk much more than most people who drink. Guy deBord
writing drunk people
I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.
writing expression ideas
Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author's phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.
writing giving verbs
Whatever you want to say, there is only one word to express it, only one verb to give it movement, only one adjective to qualify it. Guy de Maupassant
writing tablets harvest
Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest. Friedrich Nietzsche
writing age able
The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.
writing doe tables
The table I write on I say exists ... meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it, or that some other spirit actually does perceive it. George Berkeley
writing fighting liberty
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
writing relief stones
It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him. George Bernard Shaw
writing littles publication
If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.
writing men letters
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
writing literature shops
Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.
writing thinking knows
I do not know what I think until I write it.
writing men history
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
writing thinking veteran
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
writing exercise imagination
Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.
writing brass-bands ears
They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.
writing soup down-and
I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.
writing patient operations
Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.
writing disease matter
As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.