Quotes about writ
writing fiction half
No one can write a best-seller by taking thought. The slightest touch of insincerity blurs its appeal. The writer who keeps his tongue in his cheek, who knows that he is writing for fools and that, therefore, he had better write like a fool, makes a respectable living out of serials and novelettes; but he will never make the vast, the blaring, half a million success. That comes of blended sincerity and vitality. Rebecca West
writing thinking hands
I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.
writing known knows
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.
writing loss world
It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.
writing years glee
Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc. Ryan Murphy
writing editing edited
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. Russell Lynes
writing intelligent honest
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life. Russell Banks
writing paint draws
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.
writing program apprenticeship
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.
writing people care
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.
writing discipline attention
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.
writing self-confidence arrogance
It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade. Russell Baker
writing people literature
There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance.
writing media people
Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply.
writing play roles
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.
writing thinking meaningless-things
I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless. Russell Brand
writing engineering uranium-mining
I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate. Rube Goldberg
writing thinking answers
I can think of few things more disastrous than starting a new correspondence with any one. Letters are a burden indeed ... they seem often the last straw that breaks the back ... you should see the piles of those that I must answer that litter and weight my writing table. Rose Macaulay
writing my-own
I always write about my own experiences, whether I've had them or not. Ron Carlson
writing thinking appreciate
If you read reviews that you think by their very nature are not respectful of the actresses involved or not appreciating the work as it should be, I think you should write to reviewers or comment and say, "Are you kidding me?" Romola Garai
writing white favors
Writing about dead white males seems to be out of favor among academics. Ron Chernow
writing personality different
TV writing is tricky to navigate because you have so many different personalities - the actors, multiple producers. Roger Avary
writing names faces
The God we worship writes his name upon our faces. Roger Babson
writing path trouble
The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text. Umberto Eco
writing poet publish
All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.
writing hands left-hand
I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
writing thinking weekend
I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.
writing past trying
It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
writing sunday professors
I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays
writing
I write what I write.
writing thinking portraits
[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.
writing obvious publish
Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!
writing shopping lists
There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.