Quotes about writ
writing men eight
As a younger man I wrote for eight years without ever earning a nickel which is a long apprenticeship, but in that time I learned a lot about my trade. James A. Michener
writing eight talking
I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail.
writing imagination people
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
writing skills typewriters
If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.
writing swings emotion
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
writing world want
I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.
writing crafts excellent
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
writing trying knows
When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know. James A. Baldwin
writing one-thing
One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience,
writing political instruments
Writing is a political instrument.
writing order world
You write in order to change the world.
writing trying want
When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.
writing goal want
You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
writing editors literature
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
writing light cities
I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to change, and he pointed down and said, 'Look.' I looked and all I saw was water. And he said, 'Look again,' which I did, and I saw oil on the water and the city reflected in the puddle. It was a great revelation to me. I can't explain it. He taught me how to see, and how to trust what I saw. Painters have often taught writers how to see. And once you've had that experience, you see differently.
writing greed literature
The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
writing past thinking
For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that. Jacqueline Emerson
writing night thinking
I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time. Jacqueline Susann
writing way
As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!
writing opera philanthropy
Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera. Jacqueline Novogratz
writing night talking
I am excited about getting back to what I do best and what my audience likes best, I am writing new jokes every day and soon Ill be telling them every night. Just me, one Jew talking and that's it. Jackie Mason
writing men history
History -- its what those bitter old men write. Jackie Kennedy
writing people example
So it's not really whether you talk about politics, but how well were you able to do it. Peter Gabriel and Sting get away with it...U2...the examples are there, of people being able to carry these subjects in the music, and the audience is absolutely able to embrace subjects that aren't just the stuff they already know about. And they're actually able to learn stuff. Jackson Browne
writing two phrases
I'd rather be caught holding up a bank than stealing so much as a two-word phrase from another writer. Jack Smith
writing sells felt
I just wrote what I felt like writing since they seemed to sell. Jack Vance
writing computer speak
But I'm so slow on it because I find it terribly hard writing blind on computers. The computer speaks to me, but it's just so slow, I'm so terribly slow using it.
writing thinking backgrounds
Well, I think everything I've ever read contributes to the background from which I write.
writing desire plot
The beginning of a plot is the prompting of desire. Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
writing people should
One should never write down or up to people, but out of yourself. Christopher Isherwood
writing quality language
Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.
writing play pages
I can't compose or play music; I'm not that fortunate. But I can write and I can talk and sometimes when I'm doing either of these things I realize that I've written a sentence or uttered a thought that I didn't absolutely know I had in me... until I saw it on the page or heard myself say it. Christopher Hitchens
writing political littles
I've been writing a lot about a new form of Russian imperialism. Actually, Russian Orthodox imperialism. It's very little remarked that the cement, the political, ideological cement of the Russian regime now, communism having collapsed and imploded, is increasingly a confessional one.
writing talking people
Yes, I, well, when I write, as often as I can, I try to write as if I'm talking to people. It doesn't always work, and one shouldn't always try it, but I try and write as if I am talking, and trying to engage the reader in conversation.