Quotes about writ
writing signatures philosopher
How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory. Marcus Tullius Cicero
writing learning science
Nulla (enim) res tantum ad dicendum proficit, quantum scriptio Nothing so much assists learning as writing down what we wish to remember. Marcus Tullius Cicero
writing editing mind
Every word that is unnecessary only pours over the side of a brimming mind. Marcus Tullius Cicero
writing careers firsts
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money. Marcel Achard
writing black humans
I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody. Mara Brock Akil
writing thinking people
People always go on about sleaze, but I think it's only a small part of what I write about. Marc Almond
writing hot rejected
Seventeen publishers rejected the manuscript, at which time we knew we had something pretty hot. Kinky Friedman
writing work-out sometimes
I never said I was a weightlifter. I never said I was trained. I'm not a personal trainer. I just enjoy working out. So sometimes I feel like, do I have to write a disclaimer? Like, disclaimer: "I'm not a trainer." Khloe Kardashian
writing my-own ifs
I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take. Kid Rock
writing people target
I use Mac. Not because it's more secure than everything else - because it is actually less secure than Windows - but I use it because it is still under the radar. People who write malicious code want the greatest return on their investment, so they target Windows systems. I still work with Windows in virtual machines. Kevin Mitnick
writing adventure challenges
I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses. Kevin Mitnick
writing thinking ability
I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits. Kenny Hickey
writing creative kind
If I don't stay creative and if I don't stay in the studio and keep writing and recording, I get kind of depressed. I can't quite remember what I'm supposed to be doing with myself. Kenny Loggins
writing interesting people
Anyway...I find what you write interesting." "That's what people usually say when they disagree with it. Ken MacLeod
writing secret becoming
The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing. Ken MacLeod
writing growing awareness
I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid. Ken Livingstone
writing acting use
I want to use things I learn about writing in my acting, and vice versa. Katie Chang
writing independent thinking
I really (became) very independent. I was start(ed) to write one-woman shows and mak(e) films and to me I think I really felt like my choice (was) more important than any kind of career goal. Margaret Cho
writing matter no-matter-what
I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for. Margaret Cho
writing people rabbits
It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots. Margaret Atwood
writing perfect done
No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done. Mark Twain
writing cities seven
I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same. Mark Twain
writing plain-language ideas
Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph. Mark Twain
writing style bricks
Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style. Mark Twain
writing use information
It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off. Mark Twain
writing boys men
I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience. Mark Twain
writing blow brain
I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well. Mark Twain
writing censorship print
We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print. Mark Twain
writing benefits amusement
It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit. Mark Twain
writing nonsense
It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense Mark Twain
writing exclamation-points laughing
One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke. Mark Twain
writing pay offers
Write without pay until somebody offers to pay. Mark Twain
writing humble average
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen. Mark Twain