Quotes about writ
writing discipline want
I continue to write. It's just one of those things that I do. I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore and that's no good. Greg Lake
writing numbers omission
I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that because it was work that was interesting and had I written more about it, it could have been useful. Grace Paley
writing crafts knows
Write from what you know into what you don't know. Grace Paley
writing movement knows
The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write. Grace Paley
writing add four
I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up. Grace Paley
writing should-have done
I know I've done good work. I've been very serious about my writing, and I've done the best that I could. But I don't feel that I've done more than I should have. In fact, I've done less than I should have. Grace Paley
writing plot stories
I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first. Grace Paley
writing needs
You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else. Grace Paley
writing knows
We write about what we don't know about what we know.... Grace Paley
writing past fiction
I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty. Grace Paley
writing vocabulary useless
My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. Grace Paley
writing justice possibility
I write for the still, small possibility of justice. Grace Paley
writing people trying
I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all. Grace Paley
writing people sometimes
People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics. Grace Paley
writing dont-lie ifs
Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write. Grace Paley
writing rejection wells
Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections. Gilbert Morris
writing sweat dozen
Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen. Jack London
writing information way
The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person. J. Robert Oppenheimer
writing important actors
You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves around their part so "This is the important part because this is the part where..." . Grant Heslov
writing thinking stories
Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story. Grant Heslov
writing dark horror-stories
I thought I could capture the stories of the city on paper. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city. Horror stories you see. I tell you I didn't have to look far for material. Everywhere I looked, there were stories hidden there in the dark corners. . . . I wrote and still there were more. . . . No one would publish them. 'Too horrible,' they said. 'Sick mind,' they said. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city but the horror is too big and it goes on forever. Grant Morrison
writing men trying
A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly. Georg C. Lichtenberg
writing men worry
The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer. Georg C. Lichtenberg
writing intelligent people
Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits. Georg C. Lichtenberg
writing thinking world
What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed... Georg C. Lichtenberg
writing knows
To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them. Georg C. Lichtenberg
writing sunshine weather
There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where. Georg C. Lichtenberg
writing ideas trying
Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones. Georg C. Lichtenberg
writing lays written
Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before. Georg C. Lichtenberg
writing successful way
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. Gene Fowler
writing white safety
Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write -Tough and Competent- on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control. Gene Kranz
writing
I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer. Gary Jennings
writing next lines
Why do I find it hard to write the next line? Gary Kemp