Quotes about writ
writing dull aging
Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures. Henry Anatole Grunwald
writing ideas despair
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. Hector Berlioz
writing long needs
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short. Henry David Thoreau
writing heat great-writing
Write while the heat is in you.
writing thinking mind
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
writing achievement done
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
writing positivity hair
When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy. Matsuo Basho
writing acting way
I learn a lot from acting, but it's not my natural way. I can't help but write; I do it all the time. It's a condition of being for me. Mary Stuart Masterson
writing kind particular
I don't write for any particular kind of person. Mary Wesley
writing littles break
Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head. Patricia Cornwell
writing people decline
If people have bought something of mine, they know by now that I will decline writing it for the movies Patricia Highsmith
writing house cleaning
I can't write if someone else is in the house, not even the cleaning woman.
writing glimpse novel
When I write, I get glimpses into future novels. Patricia Briggs
writing eye car
I narrowed my eyes at him. "Stuff that. I'll write a doctoral thesis. Then I can go do what most of the other people with doctoral degrees in anthropology do." "What's that?" asked Calvin. "You don't need to encourage her," said Adam seriously, but his eyes laughed at me. "The same thing that people with degrees in history do," I said. "Fix cars or serve frnech fries and bad hamburgers.
writing may realizing
I've learned to write the truth. But to do that, I had to figure out what the truth was-and I had to realize that the truth isn't always the same for everyone. I had to realize that my truth may not be the same as your truth. Pat Murphy
writing details remember
I've been working on my autobiography, just pecking away in longhand. The more you write, the more you remember. The more you remember, the more detail you recall. It's not all pleasant! Pat Morita
writing charity gestures
Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off? Padgett Powell
writing humanity earth
On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity. Pablo Neruda
writing goes-on dare
If suddenly you do not exist, If suddenly you are not living, I shall go on living. I do not dare, I do not dare to write it, if you die. I shall go on living.
writing great-writers
I'm not a great writer. I'm a great rewriter. Paddy Chayefsky
writing heart men
Bach is the supreme genius of music... This man, who knows everything and feels everything, cannot write one note, however unimportant it may appear, which is anything but transcendent. He has reached the heart of every noble thought, and has done it Pablo Casals
writing breathing
For me writing is like breathing. I could not live without breathing and I could not live without writing.
writing gone far-away
While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone.
writing men hands
Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes to pieces like a rotten pie, you... gather together whatever can be salvaged, while I cup my hands around the live coal of life.
writing men serious-man
Every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing. ... There does not exist, nor will there ever exist, any writing of mine dealing with this subject. Plato
writing simple belief
. . . Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded. . . .
writing men swim
A man is not learned until he can read, write and swim.
writing soul geometry
Writing is the geometry of the soul.
writing thinking wells
I don’t think I write well—just better than anyone else, Philip Larkin
writing trying poetry-is
It is fatal to decide, intellectually, what good poetry is because you are then in honour bound to try to write it, instead of the poems that only you can write.
writing novel deeper
Novels seem to me to be richer, broader, deeper, more enjoyable than poems.
writing pity good-authors
There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!
writing kind fantasy
Dear, I can't write, it's all a fantasy: a kind of circling obsession.