Quotes about writ
writing want satisfaction
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say. Mark Twain
writing men ideas
A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.
writing play cards
If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'
writing inconvenience
In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.
writing trying boards
Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.
writing typewriters everyday
Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way I do it. If I'm not pregnant with words and I'm not in labor with them, I don't even try to bring them forth because they won't be any good anyway. Once I'm ready to deliver, it's like being pregnant. I've got to find a typewriter or a piece of paper. The only words that have ever had any possible value to others seem to have been those words that just had to come out. Marianne Williamson
writing passion pulse
Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.
writing circles fire
New perspectives give birth to new historic ages. Humankind has had many dramatic revolutions of understanding - great uses of fire and the wheel, language and writing. We found that the earth only seems flat, the sun only seems to circle the earth, matter only seems solid. Marilyn Ferguson
writing listening loud
I find it creatively satisfying to write material and say it out loud in a public place, whether or not anyone's listening. Maria Bamford
writing blood understanding
If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened. Martin Luther King, Jr.
writing ideas evil
I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good. No other person has been more eloquent and passionate in getting this idea across than Henry David Thoreau. As a result of his writings and personal witness, we are the heirs of a legacy of creative protest.
writing theme process
For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life. Mark Webber
writing doctors risk
Any doctor will admit that any drug can have side effects, and that writing a prescription involves weighing the potential benefits against the risks. Mark Udall
writing goal mind
When we accomplish a goal, it instantly loses some of its importance and we tend to lose interest. When we write down too many goals, there is plenty to keep our subconscious mind at work. Mark Victor Hansen
writing extraordinary-moments people
For better or worse, most of my writing life has been about people that work behind the scenes. I'm interested in finding extraordinary moments in otherwise normal people. Mark Boal
writing laptops computer
I write on a computer, on a laptop or whatever.
writing men thinking
There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature. Marguerite Duras
writing solitude drained
The solitude of writing is a solitude without which writing could not be produced, or would crumble, drained bloodless by the search for something else to write.
writing hands play
A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print. Marguerite Yourcenar
writing metaphor
I've simplified much more in my writing. I say what I've got to say, not in metaphor. Marianne Faithfull
writing capricious creatures
History is a capricious creature. It depends on who writes it. Mikhail Gorbachev
writing cliche admire
I guess it's a bit cliché, but as an actor, I really admire good writing. There are a lot of great ideas out there, but it's the execution that really makes it work. Mike Colter
writing men sake
My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself. Miguel de Unamuno
writing sunday paper
Sunday afternoon is for papers and writing. Nicholas Haslam
writing best-experiences film
Writing and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life. Nicholas Jarecki
writing interesting people
The fact that people will pay you to talk to people and travel to interesting places and write about what intrigues you, I am just amazed by that. Nicholas D. Kristof
writing journey thinking
I think it worked two ways. One, a lot of people writing about the movie used that as shorthand and it could either be a good thing or they could use it to dismiss the movie like we were a copycat movie or something like that. It's very much its own story. It is a young woman in a post-apocalyptic society, but after that it's just a whole different kind of story and a different journey that she goes through. Neil Burger
writing excuse mood
I'm very finicky about when I'm in the right mood to write. So most days, I find some excuse not to do anything. Ned Beauman
writing levels littles
The simile has to match the tone of its surroundings and has to be like a little joke. Writing a simile that isn't funny on some level is quite hard.
writing shining pleasure
The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it! Naomi Shihab Nye
writing eden creative
The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable. Nadine Gordimer
writing fiction truthful
Nothing factual that I write or say will be as truthful as my fiction.
writing solitude madness
The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.