Quotes about writ
writing thinking editors
We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor. Garrison Keillor
writing ironic young-writers
A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.
writing tragic
The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it. Gabrielle Roy
writing cutting knives
It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn't advance the story. Frank Yerby
writing soul suffering
O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter. Francois Fenelon
writing editors differences
I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any difference whether it was fiction or nonfiction or short stories or whatever. I just - that's what I was destined to do. Frank Deford
writing giving people
I don't understand blogs. People used to write to make money, no? You didn't give it away. I have nothing against blogs. I don't have a problem with them. But it's like, 'What are you doing? Why aren't you working?
writing novelists
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist. Francois Truffaut
writing creative suits
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. When I cease to be carried along, when I no longer feel as though I were taking down dictation, I stop. Francois Mauriac
writing police houston
Former police chief of Houston once said of me: “Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it ‘U.R. Hooked’ and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver’s license for identification. Frank Abagnale
writing easy
It is easy to write unthinking music.
writing wish sometimes
Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write. George Crabbe
writing creative acting
I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do. George Clooney
writing thinking want
I would not want to write something about something I do not think about Geezer Butler
writing people
I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people. Geddy Lee
writing practice hard
It's hard for me to just practice without writing something.
writing thinking different
I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music that we can continue to write, enjoy and keep me involved with music other then what I do with RUSH.
writing first-love firsts
I love to write. It's my first love.
writing elderly years
Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.
writing mirrors
I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror. Elaine Dundy
writing history way
It is the winners who write history - their way. Elaine Pagels
writing rocks joy
All of the writing on '30 Rock' is a joy to go into. It's pretty hot stuff. Elaine Stritch
writing vowels pewter
God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels. John Crowe Ransom
writing ambition thinking
Only think that I am now writing in a room full of Claudes... almost of the summit of my earthly ambitions. John Constable
writing boys use
I don't want boys to use their pencils for improper writing. John Burns
writing firsts wells
Nobody walks well first, nobody writes well first and nobody cooks well first. Joel Salatin
writing sermons
I write all my sermons. Joel Osteen
writing editing self
Writing is all about self-editing; it's all about being present being aware of what's happening Joan Armatrading
writing order records
It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.
writing obsessed wanted
When I was younger I was obsessed with writing, so even if I wanted to listen, I didnt have time.
writing writing-music born
Writing music is just something that I was born to do.
writing acting stories
And I used to write novels and little stories and compositions and I - but I put them away because I started acting when I was 17. So there wasn't much time. Joan Collins
writing thinking shopping
I can't think of anything I would rather not - rather do than get up and not do anything. I have to do something. Whether it is painting, writing, acting, shopping, going to the gym, being with friends, going out - I just am a very active person. I have a lot of friends and I travel a lot.