Quotes about writ
writing trying generations
You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation. Leon Uris
writing long persons
I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes. Joyce Maynard
writing people ugly
It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.
writing thinking helping
You write to help yourself think better, then think to help yourself write better. Joseph Williams
writing men air-power
Good God! This man should be writing dime novels. Josephus Daniels
writing pages type
I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages. Joseph Heller
writing would-be sacred
I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.
writing media people
The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.
writing done tempted
When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'
writing young-writers trouble
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
writing purpose divinity
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
writing names boredom
German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or through accomplished incomprehensibility, or through harmonious platitude, or through versatile boredom, or through constant striving after the absolute.
writing past order
In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it; the thought which is to be soberlyexpressed must already be entirely past and no longer be one's actual concern.
writing men together
Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels of an author not infrequently belong together and are to a certain degree only one novel.
writing people determined
It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so. Karl Popper
writing hands likes
I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully. Mother Teresa
writing cutting hands
I am only a little pencil in the hand of our Lord. He may cut or sharpen the pencil. He may write or draw whatever and whenever he wants. If the writing or drawing is good, we do not honor the pencil or the material that is used, but rather the one who used it.
writing white ties
Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work. Mona Simpson
writing exciting
I barely have time to watch stuff that I'm in, or my friends' stuff. The bar for writing has really elevated and it's really exciting, it's not just parts for 25-year-olds. Molly Shannon
writing write-your-own
If it's not happening, write your own thing!
writing painful process
The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful Monica Denise Brown
writing escaping boredom
Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian. Monica Ali
writing people perceive
I don't have control over how people choose to perceive me. The only thing I have control over is my writing. Molly Ringwald
writing thinking hard
I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.
writing long acting
I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with writing that comes about with acting. Writing - particularly when you're writing yourself, when it's you, when it's your life, you really can't hide.
writing law caves
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
writing play creative
Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook Minnie Driver
writing secret down-and
I do have a journal, that I write all my thoughts in every day. So that's kind of something. I also have a burn box where I write secrets down and put it in a box. Miranda Cosgrove
writing college class
Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.
writing sparks each-day
Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
writing thinking talking
I think that, that it would be hard for New Hampshire to vote for somebody who was a fundamentalist minister, affable as he is. He does seem to actually want to write, for example, a prohibition against abortion into the Constitution , which Ronald Reagan, for all his talking about it, never tried to do one time. Mike Huckabee
writing tasks revision
If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing. Pearl S. Buck
writing thinking trying
Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.