Quotes about writ
writing night sky
It was a clear, starry night, dead calm. Whenever I see a sky like that, I wish I could write music Henning Mankell
writing agony knows
One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.
writing mirrors greek
I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society.
writing kind story-of-my-life
It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life. Helen Keller
writing space work-out
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.
writing thinking soul
If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.
writing today
There will never be another now - I'll make the most of today. There will never be another me - I'll make the most of myself.
writing hands discovery
I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.
writing character people
Helen Lowe writes wonderful stories, yes, but her work also speaks with lyricism to deeper questions of how we treat each other. With lovely prose that brings vivid life to her characters, she creates a universe with people we care about. This is an author with a gift for fantasy. Catherine Asaro
writing thinking internet
I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself. Cate Blanchett
writing talking people
As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right. Catharine Beecher
writing social conviction
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. George Eliot
writing self answers
Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion that you will like to hear from me. You see, I have asked no questions, which are the torture-screws of correspondence. Hence you have nothing to answer.
writing people thanks
People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.
writing errors furniture
All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!
writing thinking interesting
I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions.
writing mind answers
I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.
writing genius
The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
written
It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script. Mark Johnson
written
It makes it harder to write if I watch a lot of television, because television is not like a written story. Avi
written
Every song I've written is luck, I think; it's luck - 'How did that just happen?' Daron Malakian
writing thinking giving
The novel is final form; it's the ultimate individual final form. Television and motion pictures never get there. You'd be fabulous to think that something you write is even going to be filmed. I give it the best shot of which I'm capable. But it's more a payday for me. And if I didn't have alimony and the full-time assistant. James Ellroy
writing air data
I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you this secret human infrastructure. The only way I sate my own curiosity is to create this from scratch. There must be commanding love stories. There must be great moral cost.
writing thinking people
[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.
writing thinking novel
I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think I've graduated.
writing careers play
I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.
writing thinking actors
It's great to write for actors when you know who they are. I think I prefer it. Jason Gann
writing years deadline
I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming. Jason Isbell
writing class interesting
There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life. Jarvis Cocker
writing brain information
If you listen first, and write later, then what you write will have had time to filter through your brain and you'll be in what you say. This is what makes you exist. If you are only a reflector of information, are you really there? Jaron Lanier
writing thinking writing-and-thinking
Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.
writing plot firsts
When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted yourself in a plot corner. Janet Evanovich
writing men ideas
Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.