Quotes about writ
writing men may
A man may write himself out of reputation when nobody else can do it. Thomas Paine
writing thinking people
All this [Paul's writing] is nothing better than the jargon of a conjurer who picks up phrases he does not understand to confound the credulous people who come to have their fortune told. Age of Reason
writing fate giving
What is a modern poet's fate? / To write his thoughts upon a slate; / The critic spits on what is done, / Gives it a wipe - and all is gone. Thomas Hood
writing men hands
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box. Thomas Huxley
writing thinking doubt
But my way of writing is rather to think aloud, and follow my own humours, than much to consider who is listening to me; and, if I stop to consider what is proper to be said to this or that person, I shall soon come to doubt whether any part at all is proper. Thomas de Quincey
writing tv-shows people
A film has a sort of life over time, whereas a TV show comes up in your living room, and its immediate, and people write about it. Timothy Hutton
writing elephants chinese
What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of capitalism. Democracy is fiercely disputed. Freedom is under threat even in old-established democracies such as Britain. Western supremacy is on the skids. But everyone does capitalism. Americans and Europeans do it. Indians do it. Russian oligarchs and Saudi princes do it. Even Chinese communists do it.... Karl Marx would be turning in his grave. Or perhaps not, since some of his writings eerily foreshadowed our era of globalized capitalism. His prescription failed but his description was prescient. Timothy Garton Ash
writing europe feelings
I have a dreadful feeling in my bones that future historians may write of the May 2014 elections: "This was the wake-up call from which Europe failed to wake up.
writing novel cant
Since I cant write the greatest American novel, Im going to write the longest American novel. Thomas Steinbeck
writing self self-improvement
I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.
writing hands blind
Nature never writes a blind hand. Thomas Starr King
writing simple decision
If one writing contributed more than any other to the framework in which this work Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions developed, it would be an essay entitled 'The Use of Knowledge in Society,' published in the American Economic Review of September 1945, and written by F. A. Hayek . . In this plain and apparently simple essay was a deeply penetrating insight into the way societies function and malfunction, and clues as to why they are so often and so profoundly misunderstood. Thomas Sowell
writing ideas news
I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time. Thomas Perry
writing fiction grades
I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.
writing listening funny-travel
There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.
writing literature
I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully. Robert Metcalfe
writing discovery knows
We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery. Robert McKee
writing marathon sprint
Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.
writing rough-times reason
Of all the reasons for wanting to write, the only one that nurtures us through time is love of the work itself.
writing cake recipes
There is no screenplay-writing recipe that guarantees your cake will rise.
writing play imagination
If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune.
writing ideas two
When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of they're driven by an emotion they must express. When talented people write well, it is generally for this reason: They're moved by a desire to touch the audience.
writing discipline drill-sergeant
All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.
writing stuff comedy
With comedy, if you write something for me, I'm better at it. I'm not sure I'm so good at improvisational stuff. Robert Knepper
writing walking-dead grumpy
If I'm grumpy I sure do enjoy writing The Walking Dead. Robert Kirkman
writing way
I write the way I write.
writing looks trouble
I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.
writing political interest
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power. Robert Harris
writing trying four
Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.
writing heart stories
I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
writing years too-late
Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.
writing thinking years
God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years. Robert H. Schuller
writing water levels
however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own. Vita Sackville-West