Quotes about writ
writing thinking care
Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength. Mickey Kaus
writing thinking development
One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.
writing guitar years
I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way. Mick Ralphs
writing stuff way
Something like going to get the newspaper can increase your writing efficiency by taking you away from the material. When I'm doing other things, writing stuff will be swirling around in my head, and sometimes I'll see a new way into the material. Nathaniel Philbrick
writing color people
It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind. Naveen Andrews
writing ideas giving-money
Philanthropy is not about giving money but about solving problems. While well-meaning, the idea of writing a check and calling it 'philanthropy' is extremely short-sighted and, unfortunately, extremely pervasive. Naveen Jain
writing warrior whatever-it-takes
Ritsu: Please, Onii-san, please write with takoyaki power! Mitsuru: Yes, sensei! With ikyayaki or takoyaki or whatever it takes! Write quickly, without hesitation! Ah... Um... W-what is takoyaki power? Ritsu: Well, that is--! When Shigure-niisan eats takoyaki, he transforms into a great warrior... Shigure: No I don't. Natsuki Takaya
writing ivy romance
Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow. Nathaniel Hawthorne
writing style disappear
The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.
writing years acting
There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next. Moss Hart
writing hands making-a-difference
I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God Mother Teresa
writing thinking hands
I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.
writing play tyrants
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought. Repression in history leads to conciseness in the historian, and the rocklike hardness of much celebrated prose is due to the tempering of the tyrant. Victor Hugo
writing fighting hands
I write with one hand, but I fight with both.
writing horror-stories sometimes
Sometimes the biggest disasters aren't noticed at all - no one's around to write horror stories. Vernor Vinge
writing science ideas
When I began writing science fiction in the middle 60s, it seemed very easy to find ideas that took decades to percolate into the cultural consciousness; now the lead time seems more like eighteen months.
writing romantic-love thinking
This concept could easily have gone awry. Stories about love tend to go that way sometimes. They wander into the realm of cheese and never return, which I think is a shame, because there is a way to write about romantic love without breaking out the Velveeta. Veronica Roth
writing voice appreciate
I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
writing play world
I started writing because I decided I was too old to play pretend in the backyard. Then I found that I could create those imaginary worlds on the page.
writing political historical
Sooner I'd try to change history than turn political, than try convincing others to write letters or to vote or to march or to do something they didn't already feel like doing. Richard Bach
writing character typewriters
When I'm writing it's as if I'm the observer. It's as if that computer screen there -it used to be the typewriter - just kind of dissolves and there's this whirling tunnel of mist and there's a kind of proscenium arch, and then there are my characters, and they say what they say, and I laugh sometimes in surprise at what they say.
writing dark ideas
I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for a pencil.
writing touch-someone doe
Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word?
writing ideas two
There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we [people] are and why we're here [on this planet].
writing thinking typewriters
It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at the typewriter and does as little thinking as possible. It happened over and over again, and the beginner learned - when you start puzzling over an idea, and slowing down on the keys, the writing gets worse and worse.
writing different world
The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.
writing silence pressure
Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom. Robert Frost
writing men style
Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
writing thinking ministry
I think my writing is part of my ministry. Robert Fulghum
writing beginners trials
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
writing talking house
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
writing play tennis
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
writing knows
I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.