Quotes about writ
writing littles too-much
Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little. Roger Ascham
writing hard
Writing is hard, even for authors who do it all the time. Roger Angell
writing listening say-anything
They [candidates] say, "I don't want to say anything controversial." And so nobody covers them. Then they blame the journalists, saying "Why don't they write down what I said?" In congressional races, 90 percent of the time the answer is, "Because you are boring and you don't have anything that makes me interested in listening to you. Why the heck should somebody write it down? There's nothing here worth hearing." Roger Ailes
writing jumping way
I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down. Robin Wasserman
writing levels kind
I've never had a "hankering" to direct. I can perform, but I can't write on that level. I tend to go off on tangents. Directing also requires a kind of specificity and I don't have it. Robin Williams
writing creative students
I was an A student and I liked creative writing. Trisha Yearwood
writing thinking mind
I think when I started to write The Mysterious Benedict Society that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that. Trenton Lee Stewart
writing thinking centering
Any time I sit down and write music, the first part of that is always centering myself and thinking about who I currently am. Trent Reznor
writing thinking ideas
The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess. Tracey Emin
writing littles topics
I end up writing about all kinds of things. I never make an attempt to write about anything in particular. I don't have a little list of topics to write about. Tracy Chapman
writing love-is men
I always want to write erotic music... Not only about the love between men and women, but in a much more universal sense - about the sensuality of the mechanism of the universe... about life. Toru Takemitsu
writing stuff songwriting
Songwriting never gets old. There's always stuff to write about. Tori Kelly
writing editors stories
I don't want to be an editor! I don't want to direct; I'd be a horrible director. I don't want to write - I have a 'story by' credit on one film I did. And I don't want to edit at all. Topher Grace
writing would-be weakness
I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses.
writing technology years
Some people do rely too much on technology. Look, technology is wonderful and I love it. When I was in the UK and I had hit records I would also have a high tax bill at the end of the year, and that would be the time to buy up all the technology - it was write offs. Tony Visconti
writing numbers people
The living together is very important in a way. It's important for writing. It wouldn't be important if we were like just getting other people's numbers together, we'd just have to meet at rehearsals, but writing is something almost completely different. Steve Winwood
writing years kind
The music I write, I feel, is not the kind of music for a 25-year-old.
writing past interesting
My past is very interesting, and I treasure it, but to write about it, it's just not on my radar. Steve Vai
writing interesting people
Not writing is as important as writing - go out into the world and remember how interesting it, and the people in it, are. Veronica Roth
writing world grew
I used to go outside every day and invent these elaborate worlds and scenarios in my head, and when I grew too old for playing pretend, I started to write everything down instead.
writing focus wake-up
I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes. Vince Staples
writing hands guy
I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer. Vince Vaughn
writing people needs
I need to meet people to be able to write. Vikas Swarup
writing giving way
Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.
writing imagination creative
I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.
writing boredom stronger
Boredom provides a stronger inclination to write than anything. Vikram Seth
writing imagine novel
You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.
writing thinking trivia
It is exciting to write about the present once one gets beyond the trivia of the moment. As a time to live in, as a time to think about, the present is intriguing.
writing years cases
I spent many years of my life as an economist and demographer. I was finally distracted by writing my novels and poetry. I'm enormously happy that was the case. I feel that with writing I have found my metier.
writing listening-to-music bother
I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
writing
Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone. Rebecca Solnit
writing elements narrative
Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has made writing and walking resemble each other.
writing imagination might
To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a familiar route. To read is to travel through that terrain with the author as a guide-- a guide one might not always agree with or trust, but who can at least be counted on to take one somewhere.