Quotes about writ
writing years dramatic-situations
Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write poems that are misunderstood. A drunk, a three-year-old-they are easily misunderstood. What is difficult is being clear and mysterious at the same time. The dramatic situation needs to be as clear in a poem as it is in a piece of good journalism. The why is part of the mystery, but the who, what, where, and when should all be understood. Miller Williams
writing upset
I really want my agent to make sure they write a part in the next Airbender movie for me. I'll be really upset if I don't get to be a waterbender or something. Milla Jovovich
writing typewriters names
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought. Mignon McLaughlin
writing
Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.
writing pages leafs
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
writing talent
It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics. Johnny Mercer
writing waste baskets
You must write for the waste basket.
writing years age
I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work. John Woolman
writing thinking hymns
In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us. John Ruskin
writing reader skip
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
writing dna scientist
Time for the FUTURE!! We will see young scientists in the future writing D++ (DNA Code). Eric Lander
writing python years
Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in a year since leaving Cambridge. The first show sold out in 43 seconds and we ended up performing ten in total. We had no idea there would be such demand. Eric Idle
writing television evening
You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening.
writing unique thinking
There's no gap between the writer and the performer, which is what I think makes [Monty] Python unique. Five or six people who write Python and five or six who act it. That's what makes it unique.
writing comedy performing
When we graduated [ from Cambridge], we were grabbed right into television. I was grabbed straight into the practice of writing comedy. It was all writing and performing. You wrote something in order for you to perform it.
writing self hands
The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident...', the US will be rather pissed off
writing thinking target-audience
I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.
writing first-love love-is
My first love is writing and producing. So I sometimes put my own stuff off to work on other people's projects. Missy Elliot
writing blood talking
When you see the carrot at the end of the stick, what do you do to get it? These kinds of things that come up, that come up in the story of Capote writing "In Cold Blood," and when you see the movie, you'll see what I'm talking about. Philip Seymour Hoffman
writing truman selling
[Truman Capote] was not only just selling his writing, but he was selling himself as a person.
writing mind fiction
What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows into an oak. Write fiction and you relinquish reason. You start with an acorn and you end up with a mackerel. Philip Roth
writing frustration used
I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.
writing years president
Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating a piece of crude, contemptible, adolescent, anti-American wickedness, when, in fact, he would have succeeded, as prophetic sentry, where Orwell failed.
writing desire fiction
I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.
writing wrecks may
Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.
writing alive pages
I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
writing judging
Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.
writing reality america
You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.
writing sisterhood skulls
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
writing heart mind
Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can. Philip James Bailey
writing thinking lazy
I think e-mail is kind of a cheap way to communicate. It's a lazy way of writing a letter, you know. Peyton Manning
writing should-have beginning-middle-and-end
Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Peter De Vries
writing lasts discouraged
I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.