Quotes about writ
writing science fiction
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. Isaac Asimov
writing long-ago mind
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics-Well, they can do whatever they wish.
writing interest interruptions
Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.
writing thinking fingers
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
writing creative world
No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if they spread the knowledge as widely as possible.
writing teach
It's the writing that teaches you.
writing firsts duty
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else. Iris Chang
writing thinking may
I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
writing people liberty
For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.
writing piano play
I play piano and write better than I can sing. Irene Cara
writing people never-change
People say, "You should write lyrics" and I say I'm quite happy not to, because I like being part of that process where you write your version of what someone else's lyrics are saying to you, and that enjoyment has never changed. Elton John
writing rocks phones
I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down.
writing mean law
I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.
writing piano i-can
I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.
writing responsibility healing
So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis Ellen Bass
writing want firsts
Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.
writing mind pieces
A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind. Ellen Gilchrist
writing long mind
Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay in our minds. Their stories are part of us as long as we live and as long as we tell them or write them down.
writing good-friend intelligent
How often I have tried to tell writing students that the first thing a writer must do is love the reader and wish the reader well. The writer must trust the reader to be at least as intelligent as he is. Only in such well wishing and trust, only when the writer feels he is writing a letter to a good friend, only then will the magic happen.
writing league effort
I suppose that the first organized effort that might be considered something of civil rights was the Young Negroes' Cooperative League. Now, this offers certain contradictions at this point, perhaps, because it was stimulated by the writings of George Schayler who, at this point, is considered an arch-conservative, I understand. Ella Baker
writing one-day want
I want to write and direct a movie one day. Elle Fanning
writing wish want
How much there is I want to do! I always feel that I haven't time to accomplish what I wish. I want to read much. I wanted to write a great deal. I want to make money. Irving Fisher
writing government people
No, I’m not one (of those) people who votes for something then writes to the government to ask them to send us money. I did not request any stimulus money. Paul Ryan
writing games play
If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game. Paul Harding
writing cutting different
There's a film you write, there's a film you shoot, and there's a film that you cut - and they're all different. Paul Greengrass
writing golf games
Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five. Paul Harvey
writing thinking trying
I try not to think of actors as I'm writing because I think you do them a disservice by writing for things they've already done. Paul Haggis
writing answers trouble
I like to write about things about which I have no answers, questions that trouble me. These things trouble me.
writing interest uneasy
Unless I'm really uneasy with what I'm writing, I lose interest very quickly.
writing contradiction humans
What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.
writing matter projects
Always write from your gut, no matter what the project is.
writing thinking answers
I don't think writers should write about answers. I think writers should write about questions.
writing thinking devil
What the devil to do with the sentence "Who the devil does he think he's fooling?" You can't write "Whom the devil- ". Paul Goodman