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writing literature might
I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be. Garth Ennis
writing hands tasks
I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand. Garth Ennis
writing pleasure chapters
For all my longer works (i.e. the novels) I write chapter outlines so I can have the pleasure of departing from them later on. Garth Nix
writing going-away library
Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity. Garth Nix
writing want
I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write. Garth Brooks
writing helping
To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it. Gail Tsukiyama
writing thinking ready
Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write. Gail Godwin
writing knows
During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew. Gail Godwin
writing knowing way
I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like. Gail Simmons
writing past history
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time. Frederick Jackson Turner
writing fiction stranger
Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer. Frederic Raphael
writing godly way
...words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the most human and the most holy business we engage in. Frederick Buechner
writing needs done
By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work a) that you need most to do and b) the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you've presumably met requirement a), but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you've missed requirement b). Frederick Buechner
writing thinking people
As a journalist you have to think quickly, you're exposed to all types of people and situations and you've got to synthesize your thoughts in a very clear and concise way and write them down quickly. Those were all things that have proven really useful in my life as a television writer. Frank Spotnitz
writing reality order
Thoughts are created in the act of writing. [It is a myth that] you must have something to say in order to write. Reality: You often need to write in order to have anything to say. Thought comes with writing, and writing may never come if it is postponed until we are satisfied that we have something to say...The assertion of write first, see what you had to say later applies to all manifestations of written language, to letters...as well as to diaries and journals Frank Smith
writing ideas too-much
Scarlatti [Kirkpatrick] started writing sonatas when he was 66 and the idea that he ran off 500 or so after he was 66 was just too much for me to resist. It's just great. Frank Stella
writing critics bother
Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good, I know I'm good. I know best about myself, so a critic doesn't anger me. Frank Sinatra
writing different students
When I start my class I ask the students to write their signatures on pieces of paper and put them on a table. I have them look at them, and I point out, "They're all different, aren't they? That's you, that's you, that's you, that's you." Frank Gehry
writing thinking ideas
The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved. George Dzundza
writing historical endurance
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity. George F. Kennan
writing poet pardon
I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets. George Eliot
writing taking-a-break columns
It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written. Ferdinand Mount
writing sick drink
Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you. Fernando Pessoa
writing thinking people
I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living. Fernando Pessoa
writing language portuguese
I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself. Fernando Pessoa
writing tired cat
I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and decide not to write any more, not to think any more, but to allow the fever of speaking to make me sleepy, and with my eyes closed, like a cat, I play with everything I could have said. Fernando Pessoa
writing men drunk
If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as. Fernando Pessoa
writing
When I write, I solemnly visit myself. Fernando Pessoa
writing two people
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine. Fernando Pessoa
writing pages definitions
These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth. Fernando Pessoa
writing feelings fever
If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant. Fernando Pessoa
writing formal
Writing is like paying myself a formal visit… Fernando Pessoa
writing boxing looks
I write movies, so - I look at boxing, and I commentated on it, as if I were telling you the story of a movie or a short story. Ferdie Pacheco