Quotes about writ
writing thinking personality
I don't think it's possible to write a good novel around a negative personality. Alberto Moravia
writing ratios literacy
The ratio of literacy to illiteracy is constant, but nowadays the illiterates can read and write.
writing night light
In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories. Alberto Manguel
writing library sake
Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine.
writing thinking brain
Paper is to write things down that we need to remember. Our brains are used to think. Albert Einstein
writing creative unhappy
In my experience, the best creative work is never done when one is unhappy.
writing purpose now-and-then
I have not the slightest pretension to call my verses poetry; I write now and then for no other purpose than to relieve depression or to improve my English. Alfred Nobel
writing biographies impossible
For me writing biographies is impossible, unless they are brief and concise, and these are, I feel, the most eloquent.
writing animal interesting
Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes. He has perhaps spent his spare time in writing articles to prove that human beings are as other animals so that 'purpose' is a category irrelevant for the explanation of their bodily activities, his own activities included. Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study. Alfred North Whitehead
writing garden order
In England if something goes wrong--say, if one finds a skunk in the garden--he writes to the family solicitor, who proceeds to take the proper measures; whereas in America, you telephone the fire department. Each satisfies a characteristic need; in the English, love of order and legalistic procedure; and here in America, what you like is something vivid, and red, and swift.
writing men gains
A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.
writing genius singularity
What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity, his particular inimitable genius. Alfred Kazin
writing order ideas
The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax.
writing goodness historian
Well goodness knows, goodness knows what historians will write. Alexander Downer
writing destiny over-you
I'm still auditioning and doing other movie parts, but I really like the developing and the writing. You have more control over your destiny. Alex Borstein
writing men views
My friends all regarded me as a man of unsound mind because I held the view that my wife was with me in spirit always. I have lived with her spirit guiding me every day and she is with me now as I write this letter, and helps me to do as I am now doing. Alex Campbell
writing bike
I like to read and write and take pictures and bike. Alex D. Linz
writing conservative language
Shakespeare, who is probably the greatest writer and poet of the English language, lived in a time that was politically very conservative and it's reflected in his writings. Alex Cox
writing kissing luck
For poets that have had my luck, Seldom write when they can kiss. Alex Comfort
writing contemporary-fiction want
I write contemporary fiction, and that is what my readers want to read. Alex Flinn
writing perspective scripts
It slightly depends on your perspective, sort of how you look at these things, but when I sit down to write a script, I'm not planning to write a script; I'm planning to make a film, and so I only see the script as being just a step there. Alex Garland
writing self people
Show people your stuff, listen carefully to their responses, but ultimately don't value anyone's opinion above your own. Be influenced by writers you dislike as well as writers you like. Read their stuff to figure out what's wrong. Find a balance between the confidence that allows you continue, and the self-critical facility that enables you to improve. Get the balance wrong on either side, and you're screwed.
writing thinking poverty
Offhand, the only North American writers I can think of who have come from a background of rural poverty and gone on to write about it have been Negroes. Alden Nowlan
writing people letters
There are people who would rather choke than go see my movies. They write me letters all the time. Alec Baldwin
writing land faces
A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke [of the axe] he is writing his signature on the face of the land. Aldo Leopold
writing men thinking
I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while chopping, or while deciding what to chop. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land.
writing novel sentiments
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. Aldous Huxley
writing mean buying
I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.
writing second-thoughts my-thoughts
I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.
writing effort unsuccessful
he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular
writing mind persons
Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.
writing ideas knows
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.
writing individuality literature
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.