Quotes about writ
writing ideas stories
I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated. Roddy Doyle
writing thinking pages
When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.
writing comedian littles
If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian. Rodney Dangerfield
writing math college
If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the workplace -- no matter what your diploma says. Rod Blagojevich
writing hair bridges
Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping me by the hair and lifting me up when I'm at the end of my strength. (Significant, said the foreigner.) Odes to the human and the divine. Let my writing be like the verses of by Leopardi that Daniel Biga recited on a Nordic bridge to gird himself with courage. Roberto Bolano
writing thinking hats
I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, "I will tell you a story," and then he passes the hat. Robertson Davies
writing people seductive
That is the operatic problem; the singer must keep up a big head of steam while trying to appear secretive, or seductive, or consumptive. Some ingenious composer should write an opera about a group of people who were condemned by a cruel god to scream all the time; it would be an instantaneous success, and a triumph of versimilitude.
writing tasks difficult
The most original thing a writer can do is write like himself. It is also his most difficult task.
writing cutting care
Many authors write like amateur blacksmiths making their first horseshoe; the clank of the anvil, the stench of the scorched leather apron, the sparks and the cursing are palpable, and this appeals to those who rank "sincerity" very high. Nabokov is more like a master swordsmith making a fine blade; nothing is amiss, nothing is too much, there is no fuss, and the finished product must be handled with great care, or it will cut you badly.
writing style doe
One does not consider style, because style is. Robert Stone
writing trying firsts
I write a very rough first draft of every chapter, then I rewrite every chapter. I try to get it down in the first rewrite, but some chapters I can't get quite right the third time. There are some I go over and over and over again.
writing personality poet
For a young and presumptuous poet a disposition to write satires is one of the most dangerous he can encourage. It tempts him to personalities, which are not always forgiven after he has repented and become ashamed of them. Robert Southey
writing creative-writing wells
By writing much, one learns to write well.
writing essence capture
All I've tried to do (with my writing) is capture the essence of my time. Robert Penn Warren
writing glory nancy
I don't expect you'll hear me writing any poems to the greater glory of Ronald and Nancy Reagan.
writing scratches annoying
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it.
writing confusion fiction
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
writing secret comedy
The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.
writing scratches plot
It always seems to someone outside the business that it is very difficult to write for a comedy show because it must be done quickly. Actually, it is much easier to write this humor than to do a joke or a show from scratch, because the audience knows the plot. Just mention what is going on and then deliver the punch line.
writing trying way
Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own. Sarah Orne Jewett
writing world quiet
You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
writing needs doe
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. Wallace Stevens
writing night doors
...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.
writing fate race
The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.
writing men poetry
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
writing two historical
I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life. Vincent Piazza
writing accomplishment novelists
The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect. Willa Cather
writing years perfect
If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.
writing office world
Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
writing age fifteen
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
writing caring fighting
The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.
writing numbers want
Hurry up and write your number down before I don't want it no more, Will Smith
writing hands names
Being famous is such a gift for me because small things make people's lives brighter. You just shake somebody's hand. You just smile and write your name and people will talk about it for the rest of their lives.