Quotes about writ
writing agony uniforms
Good writing ... involves the agony of turning profoundly difficult thoughts into lucid form, then forcing them into the tight-fitting uniform of language, making them visible and clear. Pat Conroy
writing voice relief
I prayed hard and only gradually became aware that this fierce praying was a way of finding prologue and entrance into my own writing. This came as both astonishment and relief. When I thought God had abandoned me, I discovered that He had simply given me a different voice to praise the inexhaustible beauty of the made world. Pat Conroy
writing thinking people
I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it. Pamela Hansford Johnson
writing objectivity perfect
Perfect objectivity is always impossible, no matter who writes a person's biography. Pamela Stephenson
writing thinking tone
I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing. Julia Leigh
writing space roles
The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise. Julia Leigh
writing heart dukes
To this day, The Duke and I remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward. Julia Quinn
writing happy-endings knows
Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else. Julia Quinn
writing careers expectations
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations. Julia Quinn
writing world ink
To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world. Julia Quinn
writing suffering
Because to write, one must truly suffer. Juan Rulfo
writing long answers
Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so. Juan Ramon Jimenez
writing guitar use
Always when I write my music, I take my guitar, and I improvise always with a melody, you know, lyrics in Spanish. But sometimes I use some words in English. I don't know why. Maybe because I listen to a lot of music in English. Juanes
writing actors tailors
I start casting early in the writing process, so I can tailor the script to the gifts of the actors. Judd Apatow
writing emotional thinking
I'm getting older, so how people face grave circumstances is of interest to me. And you meet a lot of people who are very courageous, and it doesn't reek of something funny to write about, but I always think that the higher the stakes, the bigger the laughs can be, and the more emotional the scenes can be. Judd Apatow
writing scripts
You have to write a lot of scripts to get any scripts that are worth making. Judd Apatow
writing risk performing
I loved the idea that I could write a joke and someone else would have to take the risk of performing it. Judd Apatow
writing laughing people
I wrote on the Grammys, and a few times for Garry Shandling when he was hosting. I couldn't have enjoyed those gigs more, because I would get to collaborate and try to make people I looked up to laugh, but for the most part, when you're as talented as they are, what they really want is someone who can type fast and whose presence makes them feel in the mood to write and spew and be creative, and I was a good person to have in the room. Judd Apatow
writing thinking trying
I think, there were probably problems with show business where producers and directors would try to get the writing credit also. So they created a rule where the bar, to get your name added to the writing credits, if you've done a revision, is very high if you're also the producer or director. Judd Apatow
writing thinking bigs
I put on a big show when I write something I think is funny. Judd Apatow
writing soul humans
Writers are the engineers of human souls. Joseph Stalin
writing names crafts
...in the business of writing what one accumulates is not expertise but uncertainties. Which is but another name for craft. Joseph Brodsky
writing men self
Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul. Joseph Brodsky
writing people etcetera
Persecution mania is still around. In your writing, in your exchanges with people, meeting people who are in Russian affairs, Russian literature, etcetera. Joseph Brodsky
writing views people
As to the state, from my point of view, the measure of a writer's patriotism is not oaths from a high platform, but how he writes in the language of the people among whom he lives . Joseph Brodsky
writing democracy want
I didn't want to be either the cre`me de la cre`me or a martyr. I'd rather be a novelty, especially in a democracy that doesn't understand the language I write in. Joseph Brodsky
writing bird world
The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang. Leonardo da Vinci
writing talent good-writing
Good writing comes from good talent. Leonardo da Vinci
writing greatness men
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it. Oscar Wilde
writing good-intentions intention
Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical. Oscar Wilde
writing artist doe
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist. Oscar Wilde
writing years ideas
Over the years, there certainly have been plenty of ideas that I've had and given up on, but for this one, the only thing that was standing in its way was me doing it - I just had to write it... And then if it didn't happen, it didn't happen. But I didn't want it to be for lack of effort on my part, so I had hunch that it would be a good story and that we would work well together. And it certainly worked out that way. Paul Reiser
writing illustration poetry
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. Paul Gauguin