Quotes about writ
writing want audience
In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write. J. K. Rowling
writing thinking ideas
I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.
writing thinking average
The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write. H. G. Wells
writing stronger world
No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.
writing passion editing
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
writing littles life-is
Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.
writing way walks
I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.
writing thinking one-day
Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!
writing giving cows
Writing does for me what giving milk does for a cow. H. L. Mencken
writing men genius
The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.
writing order giving
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
writing men world
The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite capacity for forming complicated and unworkable rules.
writing newspapers controversy
Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.
writing awkward phrases
Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.
writing giving feelings
I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they are, have had only one purpose: to attain for H. L. Mencken that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
writing men critics
A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like.
writing eggs hens
Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently while an underprivileged farmer burglarizes her.
writing psychics ideas
The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.
writing moon thinking
Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
writing jigsaw-puzzles literature
No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
writing british
I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish
writing london british
I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course
writing mind doe
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that
writing literature matter
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter
writing important titles
Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title
writing needs enjoy
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader
writing thinking ifs
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself
writing catholic bedtime
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
writing play serious
Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.
writing thinking cities
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
writing mean pages
When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.
writing needs form
Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur. Guillermo del Toro
writing perfect function
I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function. Greg Iles