Quotes about writ
writing perspective people
I am an advocate of one form of the New Perspective. But there are as many new perspectives as there are people writing about it. N. T. Wright
writing biblical discipline
I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.
writing research knows
Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did. Mort Walker
writing bits personal-experiences
I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit. Miranda Lambert
writing house comforting
My ideal life is just lounging around the house and every once in a while I'll kind of write something, and then I'll leave and eat something and masturbate or whatever - just this very fluid life of comforting myself. Miranda July
writing thinking hypnosis
When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that I'm thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It's one element of hypnosis.
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 law genius
There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.
writing thinking able
To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.
writing leaving pieces
Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there. John Prine
writing secret famous-writers
Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret. Matthew Arnold
writing men two
For the creation of a masterwork of literature two powers must concur, the power of the man and the power of the moment, and the man is not enough without the moment.
writing people trying
I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, "Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive." Things should be better. Matt Taibbi
writing good-writing
Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it. Meg Wolitzer
writing imagination why-we-write
The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write. Meg Rosoff
writing dark self
Self-knowledge is essential not only to writing, but to doing almost anything really well. It allows you to work through from a deep place - from the deep, dark corners of your subconscious mind.
writing years fiction
I actually love writing for teens best. I had such an awful time in my own teen years - I love having the chance to relive them through my fiction. Meg Cabot
writing illustration used
I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators.
writing boys littles
Cal: “Could you write a little bigger? I’m not sure China saw that.” Every Boy's Got One
writing school college
In high school, I wanted to be an actress. Until I got to college and took some creative writing courses. Then I decided I wanted to become a novelist.
writing culture feels
It seems that writing chose me. I feel that because I know history, and I know the history of so many cultures; I have lived a large life. Maxine Hong Kingston
writing stories
I've been writing since I was 7, but before that, I was orally making stories.
writing firsts way
poetry is first of all a way of life and only secondarily a way of writing. May Sarton
writing artist civilization
It is dangerous it seems to me for a civilization when there is a complete abyss betewen people in general and the artists. Or is it always so? The poets who are most ardently on the people's side write in such a way that the people cannot see rhyme nor reason to their work.