Quotes about writ
writing doe tables
The table I write on I say exists ... meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it, or that some other spirit actually does perceive it. George Berkeley
writing fighting liberty
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
writing relief stones
It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him. George Bernard Shaw
writing littles publication
If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.
writing men letters
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
writing literature shops
Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.
writing thinking knows
I do not know what I think until I write it.
writing men history
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
writing thinking veteran
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
writing exercise imagination
Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.
writing brass-bands ears
They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.
writing soup down-and
I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.
writing patient operations
Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.
writing disease matter
As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.
writing men people
The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.
writing ignorance editors
The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.
writing tvs paddy
Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV]. Gena Rowlands
writing artist giving
Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions. Galen Rowell
writing voice television
The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television. Galina Vishnevskaya
writing wish research
But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the former, and in great measure from the latter. ... in short, I should wish to gain my bread from my writings. Galileo Galilei
writing trying fiction
If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want. Frederik Pohl
writing people fiction
People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
writing thinking people
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
writing artist generations
In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses. Freeman Dyson
writing quality important
The most important quality any piece of writing can have is doneness. Fred Barnes
writing site
My Web site, everything I write in there is from me. Fred Durst
writing giving long
I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I'm having and that I've had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.
writing flow program
I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs. Fred Brooks
writing people understanding
To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard. Franz Kafka
writing way safe
In a way, I was safe writing
writing voice unrest
I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.
writing mean insanity
Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when I don’t write. On the contrary, it is far worse, wholly unbearable, and inevitably ends in madness. This is, of course, only on the assumption that I am a writer even when I don’t write - which is indeed the case; and a non-writing writer is, in fact, a monster courting insanity.
writing want today
Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.