Quotes about writ
writing rewriting
Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten. Paul Engle
writing college missing
But maybe it's up the hills or under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.
writing comedian kind
I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself. Paul Feig
writing sides thieves
Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade. Paul Bowles
writing interesting trying
When you start writing things to try to persuade someone who's not already part of your guild or your profession that something is interesting, it forces you to ask yourself, "Well, why is this interesting?" Paul Bloom
writing different stuff
When I write I'll sometimes say things which are somewhat controversial - not because I'm seeking out controversy for its own sake, but if I don't have anything to say which is different, why am I bothering to write stuff down in the first place?
writing careers two
Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career. Matt Groening
writing thinking cartoon
Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.
writing people indifference
people never write calmly but when they write indifferently. Mary Wortley Montagu
writing firsts madness
For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write. Marya Hornbacher
writing once-upon-a-time matter
Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about. Mary Higgins Clark
writing simple doors
If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that. Mary Garden
writing hopeless critics
My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
writing antisocial
Writing is an antisocial act. Martha Grimes
writing men voice
. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; . . . Marsilio Ficino
writing blood bottles
I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station. Martha Gellhorn
writing
I didn't write. I just wandered about.
writing order
You have to stop living in order to write.
writing dark men
Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion... Marshall McLuhan
writing exploration absence
Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
writing science people
People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.
writing media
In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.
writing magazines care
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
writing thinking people
I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts. Mark Gatiss
writing actors want
George [Lucas] wanted to know whether we'd be interested. He did say that if we didn't want to do it, they wouldn't cast another actor in our parts - they would write us out, Mark Hamill
writing math chance
If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance. Mark Haddon
writing today stories
Well, we're meant to be writing stories today,
writing empathy humdrum
Jane Austen writes about these humdrum lives with such empathy that they seem endlessly fascinating
writing oddities people
Stories about mental aberration and oddity only make sense in context. Just how do people live with someone who is peculiar, gifted, strange or alien? It's odd because there's a little part of me that wants to write about exotic, strange bizarre subjects. Instead, I've rather reluctantly realised that what I write about is families.
writing mind fiction
Science fiction encourages us to explore... all the futures, good and bad, that the human mind can envision. Marion Zimmer Bradley
writing reality bridges
All my writing is about the recognition that there is no single reality. But the beauty of it is that you nevertheless go on, walking towards utopia, which may not exist, on a bridge which might end before you reach the other side. Marguerite Young
writing loss years
The first poem I ever wrote, about loss, when I was 5 years old, expressed the themes of everything I would ever write.
writing four sound
I write every paragraph four times - once to get my meaning down, once to put in anything I have left out, once to take out anything that seems unnecessary, and once to make the whole thing sound as if I had only just thought of it. Margery Allingham