Quotes about writ
writing thinking long
I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time, often for a very long time, before writing them down. Ludwig van Beethoven
writing letters alphabet
I would rather write 10,000 notes than a single letter of the alphabet.
writing heart honor
I have never thought of writing for reputation and honor. What I have in my heart must come out; that is the reason why I compose.
writing imagination trying
I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to elaborate the work in its breadth, its narrowness, its height, its depth...I hear and see the image in front of me from every angle as if it had been cast and only the labour of writing it down remains.
writing style deceit
If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit. Ludwig Wittgenstein
writing play piano
I wanted to play piano, and that slid quickly into writing - it wasn't enough to play other people's notes: I had to write notes too. Luc Ferrari
writing compassion conviction
Hannah writes of love with compassion and conviction. Luanne Rice
writing people intellectual
I'm not one of the people who has a kind of scholarly hat and writes in a certain way for an academic audience and then puts on a public intellectual hat and writes a different way for a different kind of readership. I generally write the way I write, no matter what and it seems to have worked for me. Louis Menand
writing people kind
If you write for the New Yorker, you always get people critiquing your grammar, you can count on it. So, because a lot of New Yorker readers are kind of, you know, amateur grammarians and so you do get a lot of that.
writing oddities ideas
One of the oddities about responses that you get to what you write, if you get a fair number of them, is that people have very different ideas of what you said.
writing sound timing
Writers are not mere copyists of language; they are polishers, embellishers, perfecters. They spend hours getting the timing right so that what they write sounds completely unrehearsed.
writing thinking discipline
For the kind of places I've written for and the kind of writing that I've done, the general way to think about your audience is to think about somebody who's like yourself, but in a completely different discipline.
writing
I love to write poetry. Shayne Ward
writing people want
What I said to my family is, 'Our history is our own. Let people write what they want, we know who we are.
writing want
I don't want my writing to be recognized. Shawn Ryan
writing unique people
I don't want my writing to be so unique that when you apply it to different genres, it seems like the previous show that people know you from.
writing thinking appreciate
I think computers are the ultimate writing tool. I'm a very slow writer, so I appreciate it every day. Sherry Turkle
writing happened ifs
If I can write everything out plainly, perhaps I will myself understand better what has happened. Sherwood Anderson
writing absurdity
The writing of words can lead to all sorts of absurdities.
writing ifs
If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.
writing technology different
Technology has helped me with the writing and recording processes, and it's a great way to reach out to fans of my music, ... Dell's combining all these different technologies and making it really easy to enjoy them. Sheryl Crow
writing firsts stories
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. Terry Pratchett
writing may close-friends
A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it. Nina Bawden
writing age life-is
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.
writing thieves tools
All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.
writing way different
The thing I liked about writing about food when I started it was that I felt I was writing about food in a different way. Not like a food writer. Nigella Lawson
writing limits able
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
writing editing four
Of every four words I write, I strike out three.
writing expression obscure
Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought. Nicolas Chamfort
writing years ideas
I always write and create. I'm never not creating. I'm always creating a show, every year, whether it gets picked up or not. I always sell a pilot or an idea. I like to be in control. Nick Swardson
writing stories rewards
The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it. Nick Earls
writing anxiety needs
Don't be too concerned about the wingnut ears. Anxiety produces the wrong pheromones. Roll with the punches. Make time for life around your deep abiding need to write. Say Yes more, but not always. Say No enough that you have a life.
writing people stories
I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing about and their story.