Quotes about writ
writing forgotten draws
In writing one draws in the rest, the forgotten parts. Edmund White
writing games challenges
I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be
writing america desire
If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
writing fetus
Writing is like carrying a fetus. Edna O'Brien
writing heart cutting
That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.
writing thieves littles
For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.
writing climbing mountain
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Edna Ferber
writing thinking order
I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion.
writing thinking order
I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice-they all make fine fuel.
writing years done
I don't know what it is that makes a writer go to his desk in his shut-off room day after day after year after year unless it is the sure knowledge that not to have done the daily stint of writing that day is infinitely more agonizing than to write.
writing reflection tools
It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story.
writing climbing interesting
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!
writing personality musical
I like writing for individuals with really rich musical personalities. Edgar Meyer
writing new-experiences self
I've always had a great love of music since childhood. It changes every day.. every time you write, it's a new experience. It's a self expression. Edgar Winter
writing thinking tv-shows
Just concentrate on the performers. Make sure you get the performers, and that's it. That's all we need to do." And I was thinking, "Well what if you do both? Of course the performance is important, the writing is really important. But what if you could have the perfect marriage of making it look really slick as well?" I think that's kind of what I tried to develop as a style, and Spaced was the first TV show I did where all the elements came together. Edgar Wright
writing rotten stories
I could write stories just as rotten. Edgar Rice Burroughs
writing poverty
I write to escape ... to escape poverty.
writing successful interesting
I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting story entertainingly.
writing odds stories
If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.
writing careers attention
But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing. Bobby McFerrin
writing school ideas
Every Republican has a one-liner on ObamaCare. I've got detailed plans on energy independence, on school choice, on health care, on foreign policy. They all hire somebody to write their plans. They can borrow mine. I've actually got ideas. Enough with the slick talkers. Let's elect somebody that's done something. Bobby Jindal
writing opposites two
When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains. Benjamin Franklin
writing politics fool
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
writing ends please
Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
writing two choices
You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.
writing remembrance records
That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.
writing vulgar
Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.
writing odds hearing
I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it? Ben Casnocha
writing entrepreneur diaries
I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.
writing nervous
Generals who can write always make me nervous. Ben Bradlee
writing thinking acting
My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting. Ben Affleck
writing thinking eight
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of. Barbara Taylor Bradford
writing want pages
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end. Barbara Tuchman