Quotes about writ
writing men air-power
Good God! This man should be writing dime novels. Josephus Daniels
writing pages type
I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages. Joseph Heller
writing would-be sacred
I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.
writing media people
The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.
writing done tempted
When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'
writing young-writers trouble
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
writing purpose divinity
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
writing names boredom
German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or through accomplished incomprehensibility, or through harmonious platitude, or through versatile boredom, or through constant striving after the absolute.
writing past order
In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it; the thought which is to be soberlyexpressed must already be entirely past and no longer be one's actual concern.
writing men together
Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels of an author not infrequently belong together and are to a certain degree only one novel.
writing people determined
It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so. Karl Popper
writing i-can ifs
If you can write it, I can be it. Karen Black
writing loss perfection
The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes. Julio Cortazar
writing want ifs
When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.
writing one-day together
I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together. Juliette Binoche
writing learning wells
Learn to write well, or not to write at all. John Dryden
writing winning agony
It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.
writing mirrors vanity
The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.
writing emotional might
I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily. John Mayer
writing autumn fortune
In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes. John Maynard Keynes
writing wind glory
Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
writing
Observe, don't imitate. John M. Ford
writing different-universes next
At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe.
writing ideas want
There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.
writing long memoir
I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time. John Major
writing shooting want
Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance. John Malkovich
writing two everyday
Our everyday language has become encumbered, Germanic, artificial, bureaucratic, inorganic. It may not be exaggerated to say that by now American writers face but two alternatives: write English, or write gobbledygook. John Lukacs
writing people competition
If you ever want to know why I'm not on a record label, look at 'The X Factor!' Honestly, of all the people that strive to break barriers in music and do good things and write great lyrics, not one of them would ever pass the first round on any of these competitions. John Lydon
written
Every single lyric I've ever written I meant.
writing self laziness
Periods of inactivity, I don't know such things. I'm consistently writing. My life is busy. It always is. There are hardly any moments for self-indulgent laziness.
writing imperfection difficult
So difficult it is to show the various meanings and imperfections of words when we have nothing else but words to do it with. John Locke
writing ideas people
I have a structured songwriting process. I start with the music and try to come up with musical ideas, then the melody, then the hook, and the lyrics come last. Some people start with the lyrics first because they know what they want to talk about and they just write a whole bunch of lyrical ideas, but for me the music tells me what to talk about. John Legend
writing names together
Paul (McCartney) and I made a deal when we were 15. There was never a legal deal between us, just a deal we made when we decided to write together that we put both our names on it, no matter what. John Lennon