Quotes about writ
writing light paper
If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day. Stephen King
writing thinking bullshit
I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit. Stephen King
writing get-better
The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read. Stephen King
writing men order
A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter despair. James, what’s wrong?' the friend asked. 'Is it the work?' Joyce indicated assent without even raising his head to look at his friend. Of course it was the work; isn’t it always? How many words did you get today?' the friend pursued. Joyce (still in despair, still sprawled facedown on his desk): 'Seven.' Seven? But James… that’s good, at least for you.' Yes,' Joyce said, finally looking up. 'I suppose it is… but I don’t know what order they go in! Stephen King
writing people different
I had to introduce a lot of people into my writing environment which I thought at first I would find really difficult, but I actually found that I loved it. It meant that I was meeting different people; it meant that I was expressing myself in different ways. Ella Henderson
writing emotion certain
Words are impotent to describe certain emotions. Ella Maillart
writing decision doe
Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information. Scott Adams
writing thinking easy
If you think it's easy to write jokes about fried calamari, you've probably never tried. Scott Adams
writing america people
Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same. Scott Adams
writing things-in-life people
Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed. Scott Adams
writing data doubt
Every credible scientist on earth says your products harm the environment. I recommend paying weasels to write articles casting doubt on the data. Then eat the wrong kind of foods and hope you die before the earth does. Scott Adams
writing want
I want to write music that will outlive me. Ray LaMontagne
writing order personality
I would like to do a lot more of it, I feel comfortable with it and basically it's all in the writing. I'm not a personality type actor, I need a good script in order to be funny, but it's definitely something that I like doing. Ray Liotta
writing eight two
If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist Ray Davies
writing ideas way
I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way.
writing romantic-love thinking
I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well. Rashida Jones
writing leaving trying
There've been times when I have existential conversations with myself, and I've thought about leaving and trying to apply my education better. But ultimately it doesn't really matter. Learning how to write, learning how to write papers and structure, that's been very helpful for writing. Rashida Jones
writing doors rooms
The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work. Randy Wayne White
writing thinking trying
When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular message. Ransom Riggs
writing world
I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds within our own. Ransom Riggs
writing retrospect
I really tend to write in retrospect. Randy Houser
writing artist play
I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life. Randy Houser
writing play accomplishment
I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first. Randy Houser
writing guitar remember
I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too. Randy Houser
writing rights people
The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the [United States] with foreign nations. Thomas Jefferson
writing letters please
Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please. Thomas Jefferson
writing hands convenience
Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one. Thomas Jefferson
writing imagination style
I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent. Thomas Jefferson
writing use unnecessary
No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one. Thomas Jefferson
writing rights government
In the constitution of Spain as proposed by the late Cortes, there was a principle entirely new to me:... that no person born after that day should ever acquire the rights of citizenship until he could read and write. It is impossible sufficiently to estimate the wisdom of this provision. Of all those which have been thought of for securing fidelity in the administration of the government, constant reliance to the principles of the constitution, and progressive amendments with the progressive advances of the human mind or changes in human affairs, it is the most effectual. Thomas Jefferson
writing doors design
On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who will ever be able to write it? Nobody, except merely its external facts... all its councils, designs and discussions having been conducted by Congress [behind] closed doors - and no members, as far as I know, having even made notes of them. These, which are the life and soul of history, must forever be unknown. Thomas Jefferson
writing liberty civil-rights
The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties. Thomas Jefferson
writing garden tree
I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company. Thomas Jefferson