Quotes about writ
writing moments disappear
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment. Marge Piercy
writing men interesting
Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.
writing silence risk
Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.
writing firsts levels
I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system. Mark Zuckerberg
writing complaining
That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain. Markus Zusak
writing interest
I have no interest in writing, directing or producing. Ted Shackelford
writing skills long
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel. Ted Rall
writing use ruins
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
writing cutting frustrated
So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything? Ted Nelson
writing design program
Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry
writing names long
It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right. Ted Turner
writing ideas sober
I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life. Ted Nugent
writing house literature
Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet. Theophile Gautier
writing fire caves
You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out. Theodore Sturgeon
writing important fiction
Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
writing ideas people
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
writing fiction-stories problem
A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened at all without its scientific content.
writing people expertise
You must write to the people's expertise.
writing dollars stories
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
writing firsts students
I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
writing stories done
There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.
writing people
There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
writing letters stories
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
writing use-it-or-lose-it legs
Writing is the only profession where nobody considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Money is like an arm or a leg; use it or lose it. Henry Ford
writing airplane
I write a lot on airplanes actually because it's completely isolating; there's no one to talk to, there's nothing to do. Mandy Moore
writing italian years
I came out here to do the acting, and then after a year of auditions and not getting anything, I met these Italian guys and they asked me to write lyrics for them. Then they said, "Why don't you just front the band?" I said, "Well, maybe because I can't sing. I've never sang before in my life." Malin Akerman
writing thinking people
Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that's nonsense. If you write in a way that is clear, transparent, and elegant, it will reach everyone. Malcolm Gladwell
writing men tables
A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour. Mahatma Gandhi
writing answers vehement
Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.
writing men idols
The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation. John Adams
writing revolution obnoxious
You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular; you are very much otherwise. And you can write ten times better than I can.
writing political
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
writing thinking people
People think I write fantasy, but I don't. Some things may be exaggerated or distorted, but they're realistic figures. . . . There's nothing incredible about it. Joe Orton