Quotes about writ
writing thinking stories
If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ass every time. Scott McCloud
writing design tools
If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things. Saul Griffith
writing stories hobbies
I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it. Satyajit Ray
writing hands people
When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.
writing trying fiction
One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it. Scarlett Thomas
writing play guy
When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it. Lin-Manuel Miranda
writing stories ends
Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the story I wanted to tell. Lily King
writing thinking two
There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.
writing editing feelings
I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.
writing hell novel
Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.
writing would-be form
Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.
writing murder-mysteries people
You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies!
writing hard-work pages
For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen. Lincoln Child
writing thinking funny-things
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.
writing trying events
I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.
writing distraction listening-to-music
I can't listen to music while writing - any such distraction would have dreadful consequences.
writing use good-writers
He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer. Lin Yutang
writing masturbation
Writing is like a mental masturbation to me. Li Na
writing heart band
I find it hard to express myself when writing from the f - - - heart or the a - , or wherever. It's just like anything, it's (easier) when you get used to it, but I've not done it. I was just a singer in a band. Liam Gallagher
writing emotional
I write emotional music. Les Baxter
writing reality boxing
Thomas Hauser respects boxing and boxers. He gives readers insight into what happens in and out of the ring. Everything he writes is fair-minded and reality-based with a human touch. Lennox Lewis
writers-and-writing
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
writing asking serious
To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing. Robertson Davies
written
I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble. Paul Theroux
written
I always worry I've probably written one too many Bernie Gunther books and that I should probably give him his gold watch. Philip Kerr
writing hands world
The Arab World is writing a new future; the pen is in our own hands.
written
Up to now, we'd get a written notification ... Now it will be expedited. Bram Cohen
writing thinking wonderful
I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized. Stephen Jay Gould
writing needs decent
Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning.
writing ethical-questions issues
It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. [...] Let me then float an unconventional plea, the inverse of the usual argument. [...] The extinction of Partula is unfair to Partula . That is the conventional argument, and I do not challenge its primacy. But we need a humanistic ecology as well, both for the practical reason that people will always touch people more than snails do or can, and for the moral reason that humans are legitimately the measure of all ethical questions for these are our issues, not nature's.
writing self talking
Writing poetry is talking to oneself; yet it is a mode of talking to oneself in which the self disappears; and the product's something that, though it may not be for everybody, is about everybody. Richard Wilbur
writing tuesday waiting
Writing is?waiting for the word that may not be there until next Tuesday.
writing dating proposal
I unfolded the note, and it took me a few seconds to decipher Adrian’s writing. If he did write me a dating proposal, I really hoped he would type it. Richelle Mead