Quotes about writ
writing names people
I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people. Morgan Freeman
writing winning insightful
Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.
writing years four
If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside. Mordecai Richler
writing office done
I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the fourth without it.
writing voice people
Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was a bit of a copycat writer and very derivative and tried to write a novel using their voices, really.... I keep it out of print.
writing frustration dying
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.
writing upset betrayed
If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.
writing
But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself? Milan Kundera
writing play territory
The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.
writing successful boys
When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.
writing ambition creative
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.
writing today patents
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today. Miguel de Icaza
writing great-love mines
Writing is a great love of mine. Micky Dolenz
writing trying speak
We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally. Margaret Wise Brown
writing first-time
I knew I didn't want to put anything down in writing about the first time that I had sex. I knew that I didn't want to do that. Mara Wilson
writing yawning want
Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is only a secondary state which is often superadded, but the want of which can have no prejudicial effect on it. Perhaps some of the greatest masterpieces were written while yawning. Marcel Proust
writing attractive-things attractive
One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead. Joseph Barbera
writing years goal
You should look ahead now and decide what you want to do with your lives. Fix clearly in your mind what you want to be one year from now, five years, ten years, and beyond. Write your goals and review them regularly. Keep them before you constantly, record your progress, and revise them as circumstances dictate. Joseph B. Wirthlin
writing men ordinary
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. Joseph Addison
writing ambitious literature
Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
writing people excellence
To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
writing two giving
Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted.
writing people would-be
Writers would be warm, loyal, and otherwise terrific people-if only they'd stop writing. Laura Miller
writing editors agents
For while agents and editors often misunderstand their market and sometimes reject good or even great works, they do prevent a vast quantity of truly execrable writing from being published.
writing answers
I'm a lot more observational than personal in my writing. My writing is mostly a lot of questions without answers. Laura Marling
writing ignorance thinking
Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or library, calculate how many lifetimes the average person would need to read all the fiction contained therein. To think that one has anything to contribute, to any genre or tradition, takes genuine hubris. Laura Lippman
writing character actors
I am very aware that playwrights, particularly good ones, have a intention for everything they write. Language and punctuation is used specifically, and most of the time actors can find wonderful clues about character in the rhythm and cadence of the language used. Laura Linney
writing needs actors
Most scripts are written to be green lit. They're not written to be acted. And a lot of writers with the greatest intention in the world don't write for actors. They don't understand the architecture of what an actor needs to get from point A to point B.
writing ideas lakes
When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever. Laini Taylor
writing giving finding-yourself
Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.
writing crafts pieces
When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
writing thinking mortgage
I still think I'm writing Nancy Drew with a mortgage. Lisa Scottoline
writing thinking stories
Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.