Quotes about writ
writing
You learn to write by doing it. Madeleine L'Engle
writing want needs
If you want to write, you need to keep an honest, unpublishable journal that nobody reads, nobody but you.
writing discipline effort
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
writing artist way
When the artist is truly the servant of the work, the work is better than the artist; Shakespeare knew how to listen to his work, and so he often wrote better than he could write; Bach composed more deeply, more truly than he knew, Rembrandt's brush put more of the human spirit on canvas than Rembrandt could comprehend. When the work takes over, then the artist is enabled to get out of the way, not to interfere. When the work takes over, then the artist listens.
writing half littles
Just write a little bit every day. Even if it's for only half an hour — write, write, write.
writing given form
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit
writing world paint
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
writing past style
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past. Lytton Strachey
writing men creation-of-man
Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.
writing doe world
The rule is: the word 'it's' (with apostrophe) stands for 'it is' or 'it has'. If the word does not stand for 'it is' or 'it has' then what you require is 'its'. This is extremely easy to grasp. Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation. No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, 'Good food at it's best', you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave. Lynne Truss
writing lightning good-food
If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.
writing important lines
Basically, I just want to make movies and maybe even produce TV later down the line, do some writing, maybe a tour with my music. And start a family! That's really important to me. Lucy Hale
writing stories breaking-down
I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.
writing water ifs
A drop of water, if it could write out its own history, would explain the universe to us. Lucy Larcom
writing echoes trying
Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth Lucy Maud Montgomery
writing character men
I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have villains at all, I'd give them a chance, Anne--I'd give them a chance. There are some terrible bad men the world, I suppose, but you'd have to go a long piece to find them...But most of us have got a little decency somewhere in us. Keep on writing, Anne.
writing want said
Make them do as you want them to," she said. "I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.
writing born
You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
writing names paper
When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.
writing knowing good-writing
The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
writing funeral lines
never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
writing people may
You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.
writing reason-why being-true
one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.
writing reason instinct
Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money. Louis Untermeyer
writing thinking giving
The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an annual report or they give a little video speech that gets sent around the company, they think that's what's really going to affect employees. Lou Gerstner
writing thinking advice
Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told. John Green
writing doe
Writing does not resurrect. It buries.
writing golf wish
I don't trust myself enough. When I write, I overwrite. Gingerbread. Too much gingerbread. Writing is probably the only hobby I have. But I wish I had another one. If I was just a little better at golf. John Goodman
writing sea helping
Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out. John Gardner
writing imagination knows
Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know
writing people might
People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile, they'll keep writing and you'll have hanged yourself.
writing thinking editors
And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit. John Frankenheimer
writing thinking rocks
I practice really hard, every day. I started that about 13 or 14 years ago; it's a discipline now. But the writing is a whole other thing. It'll come from handling a guitar, mostly; thinking up little guitar riffs. I was born and raised a rock 'n' roll guy, and that's the rock 'n' roll ethic, at least through my experience. John Fogerty