Quotes about writ
writing should historian
History should not be left to the historians. Rather, be like Churchill. Make history, and then write it. Ferdinand Marcos
writing race sublime
The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of the plan of his work, and of the thought he intends to elaborate. As he proceeds, penetrating his material, laboring to express himself fitly, he lays a firmer grasp on his thought; he finds himself. So the human race is writing its story, finding itself, discovering its own underlying purpose, revising, recasting a tale pathetic often, yet none the less sublime. Felix Adler
writing judging clean
No judge writes on a wholly clean slate. Felix Frankfurter
writing people want
As a storyteller, when you're writing a movie and when you're directing, you want to keep people entertained. That's the whole point, right? It has to be entertaining. Fede Alvarez
writing people secret
I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly. Fay Wray
writing trying would-be
Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible. Feist
writing skills way
Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.
writing thinking film
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite. Federico Fellini
writing practice peculiar
The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice. Fay Weldon
writing generosity people
Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
writing gathering thorns
Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.
writing occupation profession
Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.
writing style looks
Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.
writing learning states
one learns best, and writes best, in a state of defiance.
writing function dies
Without a function, we cease to be. So, I will write till I die. Farley Mowat
writing able goes-on
I have to go on writing because I wouldn't be able to go on without writing. It is the only function that works for me, and without that function, I would die.
writing people capes
I write better in Cape Breton... too many people around in Ontario. Down there I meet all sorts of non-human people, but they don't bother me, and I don't feel I have to apologize on behalf of my species quite so often.
writing should
But authors before they write should read. Fanny Burney
writing enjoy written
I enjoy writing but I much prefer the experience of having written. Fareed Zakaria
writing america twenties
Generations from now, when historians write about these times, they might note that, in the early decades of the twenty-first century, the United States succeeded in its great and historic mission--it globalized the world. But along the way, they might write, it forgot to globalize itself.
writing unhappy might
If I am unhappy, I can write "damn it" in my personal diary, but I can't do that on a microblog so I might as well not start one. Fan Bingbing
writing waiting needs
You can't sit around and wait for somebody to say who you are. You need to write it and paint it and do it Faith Ringgold
writing unhappy not-happy
I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not. Fannie Hurst
writing stills ifs
If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer. Fannie Flagg
writing people clarity
And how is clarity to be achieved? Mainly by taking trouble and by writing to serve people rather than to impress them. F. L. Lucas
writing brain needs
install me in any profession Save this damn'd profession of writing, where one needs one's brains all the time. Ezra Pound
writing criticism literature
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.
writing musical phrases
Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.
writing people empires
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
writing way soap
Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.
writing expression land
Use no superfluous word, no adjective, which does not reveal something. Don't use such an expression as 'dim land of peace.' It dulls the image. It mixes an abstraction with the concrete. It comes from the writer's not realizing that the natural object is always the adequate symbol. Go in fear of abstraction.
writing pounds language
Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.
writing adequate natural
The natural object is always the adequate symbol.