Quotes about writ
writing sensible approach
The only sensible approach is not to take it too seriously. What counts is the writing. Jay McInerney
writing discovery envy
I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.
writing technology phones
Second, we're spending a huge amount of money on technology so that everyone can check out laptops and portable phones. We're spending more money to write our existing information into databases or onto CD-ROM. Jay Chiat
writing want
I don't write quickly, and I don't want to. Jay Griffiths
writing yesterday president
President Bush released his tax returns yesterday. He listed the economy as a liability. He gets to write that off. Jay Leno
writing iraq giving
Did you hear that we're writing Iraq's new Constitution? Why not just give them ours? We're not using it anymore.
writing years nine
I would say that since I was nine years old I've always wanted to write and direct horror movies and action movies. There's never been a time in my life where that wasn't all I wanted to do. Jay Baruchel
writing would-be appalachia
I've never set out consciously to write American music. I don't know what that would be unless the obvious Appalachian folk references. Carlisle Floyd
writing sight people
It's amazing how fast generations lose sight of other generations. One of the first things the young composers who come to work with me say is that they want to write music people will like, instead of gaining their credentials by being rejected by the audience.
writing age lasts
You can't possibly predict what will last or not. But once you attempt to write for the ages, you're doomed.
writing kind found
I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
writing people pages
I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.' Candice Accola
writing should-have years
I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.' Candace Bushnell
writing want i-can
- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from it. + Then you shouldn't be a writer.
writing people who-you-know
When it comes to people -- don't write about who you know; but what you know of human nature.
writing novel paid
For me, having it all is being paid to write novels.
writing thinking helpful
I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.
writing adults looking-forward
I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
writing government decision
We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time itmakes a decision. Byron White
writing purple littles
I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that. Buzz Bissinger
writing home views
What are you going to do with astronauts who first reach the surface of Mars and then turn around and rocket back home-ward? What are they going to do, write their memoirs? Would they go again? Having them repeat the voyage, in my view, is dim-witted. Why don't they stay there on Mars? Buzz Aldrin
writing people remember
Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember. Burt Bacharach
writing storytelling produce
I enjoy storytelling. I like to write it, I like to direct it, I like to act in it, I like to produce it. I like to be around storytellers. That's what excites me. Bryan Cranston
writing careers film
It certainly made a film writing career for me. Buck Henry
writing sixteen outkast
I started writing when I was about fourteen, but when I was about sixteen you know, I heard Outkast, that was pretty much when I was sold on it. Bubba Sparxxx
writing thinking facts
I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically. James Herriot
writing views two
Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak, early stage of development. He follows the Germanic view that ethics is more important than aesthetics, and he draws a stark contrast between the two. Freud may have written about literature a bit, but an aesthetic sensitivity is not part of his psychology. James Hillman
writing leopards use
Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard. James Dickey
writing dresses wells
If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.
writing realizing love-poetry
What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe
writing needs natural
A fluent writer always seems more talented than he is. To write well, one needs a natural felicity and an acquired difficulty. Joseph Joubert
writing glasses fine-words
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
writing fine-words fine
Before using a fine word, make a place for it.