Quotes about writ
writing aspect small-parts
I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life. Patti Smith
writing mind pieces
After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind.
writing drawing looks
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.
writing secret desire
When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.
writing quiet closets
Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
writing artist drawing
I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.
writing pursuit awake
Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
writing
A writer is someone who writes! Pat Schneider
writing bad-writing discrimination
Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious. P. D. James
writing scientist there-comes-a-time
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
writing order appreciate
read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see how the best writers have achieved their result. Poor writing is, unfortunately, infectious and should be avoided.
writing nurse publishers
Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.
writing thinking needs
Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.
writing
I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words, P. J. O'Rourke
writing used
I listen to some of the lyrics I used to write and I say, "Where was my head at when I wrote that?" Ozzy Osbourne
writing people community
There was a cinema called The Orient outside the community centre where we rehearsed in Six Ways, and whenever it showed a horror film the queue would go all the way down the street and around the corner. 'Isn't it strange how people will pay money to frighten themselves?' I remember Tony [Iommi] saying one day. 'Maybe we should stop doing blues and write scary music instead.'
writing thinking scary
I didn't think anything we did was spectacular. I remember we thought, Let's just write some scary music.
writing years notes
Let me explain something to you - you have not been standing in front of thirty thousand decibals for thirty-five years - write me a note!
writing dark men
Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did. P. G. Wodehouse
writing stories feels
I love writing. I never feel really comfortable unless I am either actually writing or have a story going. I could not stop writing.
writing light sometimes
I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that - humorists they are sometimes called - are looked down upon by the intelligentsia and sneered at.
writing typewriters curse
I just sit at a typewriter and curse a bit.
writing stories knows
I know I was writing stories when I was five. I don't know what I did before that. Just loafed I suppose.
writing thinking want
I should think it extremely improbable that anyone ever wrote for money. Naturally, when he has written something, he wants to get as much for it as he can, but that is a very different thing from writing for money.
writing stories narrative
Rex Stout's narrative and dialogue could not be improved, and he passes the supreme test of being rereadable. I don't know how many times I have reread the Wolfe stories, but plenty. I know exactly what is coming and how it is all going to end, but it doesn't matter. That's writing.
writing men careers
I was writing a story, 'The Artistic Career of Corky,' about two young men, Bertie Wooster and his friend Corky, getting into a lot of trouble, and neither of them had brains enough to get out of the trouble. I thought: Well, how can I get them out? And I thought: Suppose one of them had an omniscient valet?
writing men echoes
It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.
writing want
I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.
writing years agamemnon
Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti, Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.] Ovid
writing giving dumb
This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]
writing comedian trying
As a comedian, I'm like one of those on-the-scene reporters. I will actually go and try to find disasters so I can write jokes as the disasters unfold. Paul Provenza
writing littles wanted
I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat. Paul Engle
writing thinking water
Writing is like this -- you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth.