Quotes about writ
writing preparation darts
As soon as a thought darts, I write it down. Thomas Hobbes
writing color years
Antiracism is not "my" campaign. I have been doing antiracism organizing, activism, educating and writing for 20 years, in one form or another, but it's not a personal crusade. My work is part of a larger tradition, and larger effort, involving mostly people of color, and of course some white allies as well. Tim Wise
writing important able
As you get older you're told to be sensible, but it's important for writing if you're a comic that you're able to still access that childlike thing. Tim Vine
writing heart recovery
Bloggers and other flavors of lone wolf are publishing heart-wrenching photo-essays from the front line of the recovery effort. Newspapers and TV networks? They're writing about the temperature of the water in some part (they don't specify which) of some damaged reactor, illustrating it with video screen grabs of machinery they don't understand enough to explain. Tim Bray
writing funny-travel
You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel. Tim Cahill
writing adventure army
As one of the first editors at 'Outside' magazine in 1975, it was my contention that most American writing going back to James Fennimore Cooper and then through Twain up to Hemingway had been outdoor writing. At that time, adventure writing meant stuff like 'Saga' or 'Argosy.' 'Death Race with the Jungle Leper Army!' That kind of thing.
writing air cows
It's often hilarious to me that I'm writing about Tonga or some tropical place and there's a blizzard outside and the cows are on their backs with their hooves in the air.
writing editors needs
Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write well. Many others are capable of doing what you have done (probably), so you must write better than they...
writing people comfort
Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary sense for them to write about.
writing two people
I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of a failed outdoor story. One is the phony epiphany on the mountain top.
writing html people
If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML. Tim Berners-Lee
writing class important
If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important. Thomas Lennon
writing needs laptops
The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your own work and if you're not manically compelled to write all the time before you do it professionally, it's probably not a business for you anyway.
writing littles way
I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we're more Salieri than Mozart.
writing fate hands
The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the story, the story is the story. See? Sometimes this is very hard to accept and sometimes too easy. On the one hand, there’s the writer who can’t face his fate: that the telling of a story has nothing at all to do with him; on the other hand, there’s the one who faces it too well: that the telling of the story has nothing at all to do with him Thomas Ligotti
writing native-language two
No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth. Thomas Jefferson
writing expression ideas
Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of an idea is condensed, or a word stands for a sentence, I hold grammatical rigor in contempt.
writing mirrors way
One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle - you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way. Thomas Frank
writing years discipline
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku. Thom Mayne
writing gay interesting
I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader. Thom Gunn
writing people bars
I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about.
writing thinking class
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.
writing boys tunes
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. Thomas Beecham
writing mind trying
And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind. Thomas Keneally
writing recipes stories
I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories. Thomas Keller
writing recipes problem
One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.
writing thinking order
We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always fail, because we suddenly find it impossible to order our thoughts, because the process of thinking requires us to consider every thought there is, every possible thought. Fundamentally we have always failed, like all the others, whoever they were, even the greatest minds. At some point, they suddenly failed and their system collapsed, as is proved by their writings, which we admire because they venture farthest into failure. To think is to fail, I thought. Thomas Bernhard
writing
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequethed their writings to me--I have no others.
writing too-late lost
Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.
writing reputation discrepancies
Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
writing singers
I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing. Rebecca Ferguson
writing
I like to write poetry.
writing people romance
That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens. Ville Valo