Quotes about writ
writing addiction
I have a writing addiction. Prince
writing classic old-days
Were you here in the bad old days? ... That's why you can't read and write then! Prince Philip
writing letters classic
Ah, you're the one who wrote the letter. So you can write then?
writing college stories
It's not a college degree that makes a writer. The great thing is to have a story to tell. Polly Adler
writing civilization glory
True glory consists in doing what deserves to be written, and writing what deserves to be read. Pliny the Elder
writing conscious
The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing. Pico Iyer
writing alive way
Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.
writing important alive
As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn't matter where or how far you go - the farther commonly the worse - the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way to wake oneself up and keep as alive as when one has just fallen in love.
writing anomalies letters
Writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.
writing parent anomalies
Writing should ... be as spontaneous and urgent as a letter to a lover, or a message to a friend who has just lost a parent ... and writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger
written
What I have written, I have written. Pontius Pilate
writing thinking want
I don't think the press are vindictive. They can write what they want Mike Gatting
writing musical atmosphere
I start with the subject matter I want to write about. Then I make a musical base for that and create an atmosphere with the music. Once I've done that, the lyrics come last. Midge Ure
writing thinking care
Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength. Mickey Kaus
writing thinking development
One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.
writing guitar years
I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way. Mick Ralphs
writing stuff way
Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When I'm doing other things, writing stuff will be swirling around in my head, and sometimes I'll see a new way into the material. Nathaniel Philbrick
writing color people
It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind. Naveen Andrews
writing ideas giving-money
Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and, unfortunately, extremely pervasive. Naveen Jain
writing warrior whatever-it-takes
Ritsu: Please, Onii-san, please write with takoyaki power! Mitsuru: Yes, sensei! With ikyayaki or takoyaki or whatever it takes! Write quickly, without hesitation! Ah... Um... W-what is takoyaki power? Ritsu: Well, that is--! When Shigure-niisan eats takoyaki, he transforms into a great warrior... Shigure: No I don't. Natsuki Takaya
writing ivy romance
Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow. Nathaniel Hawthorne
writing style disappear
The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.
writing years acting
There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next. Moss Hart
writing hands making-a-difference
I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God Mother Teresa
writing thinking hands
I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.
writing thinking hands
I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more.
writing night two
I want to keep going as I have, to travel, read, perform, write, and enjoy my family. I've promised myself only this: no more Laundromats, no more two-shows-a-night, and no more deadlines. I'll work at my own pace. Jimmy Buffett
writing discussing
I love discussing the ins and outs of the collaborative nature of writing. Jim Rash
writing important enjoy
My writing is extremely important, so I write every day. I just enjoy it. I get a kick out of it. Jim Lehrer
writing thinking play
Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in terms of comic dialogue. Jim Parsons
writing hands printer
I was now ordered to have my writings copied, and put into the printer's hand.
writing fiction facts
Science fiction, as I mentioned before, writes about what is neither impossible nor possible; the fact is that, when the question of possibility comes up in science fiction, the author can only reply that nobody knows. We haven't been there yet. We haven't discovered that yet. Science fiction hasn't happened. Joanna Russ
writing adventure men
Long before I became a feminist in any explicit way, I had turned from writing love stories about women in which women were losers, and adventure stories about men in which the men were winners, to writing adventure stories about a woman in which the woman won. It was one of the hardest things I ever did in my life.