Quotes about writ
writing novel cant
Since I cant write the greatest American novel, Im going to write the longest American novel. Thomas Steinbeck
writing self self-improvement
I like writing, but I write for self-improvement more than I do for money.
writing hands blind
Nature never writes a blind hand. Thomas Starr King
writing simple decision
If one writing contributed more than any other to the framework in which this work Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions developed, it would be an essay entitled 'The Use of Knowledge in Society,' published in the American Economic Review of September 1945, and written by F. A. Hayek . . In this plain and apparently simple essay was a deeply penetrating insight into the way societies function and malfunction, and clues as to why they are so often and so profoundly misunderstood. Thomas Sowell
writing ideas news
I do want to write about Jane Whitefield again, but only when I have a good enough idea - something I've figured out about her that's news and that's worth a reader's time. Thomas Perry
writing fiction grades
I had been writing fiction since I was in eighth grade, because I loved it.
writing listening funny-travel
There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.
writing literature
I consider what I write to be literature. I choose the words carefully. Robert Metcalfe
writing discovery knows
We rarely know where we are going; writing is a discovery. Robert McKee
writing marathon sprint
Writing is a marathon, not a sprint.
writing rough-times reason
Of all the reasons for wanting to write, the only one that nurtures us through time is love of the work itself.
writing cake recipes
There is no screenplay-writing recipe that guarantees your cake will rise.
writing play imagination
If you can't play all the instruments in the orchestra of story, no matter what music may be in your imagination, you're condemned to hum the same old tune.
writing ideas two
When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of they're driven by an emotion they must express. When talented people write well, it is generally for this reason: They're moved by a desire to touch the audience.
writing discipline drill-sergeant
All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant.
writing stuff comedy
With comedy, if you write something for me, I'm better at it. I'm not sure I'm so good at improvisational stuff. Robert Knepper
writing walking-dead grumpy
If I'm grumpy I sure do enjoy writing The Walking Dead. Robert Kirkman
writing way
I write the way I write.
writing looks trouble
I have trouble writing if I can't picture how things are going to look.
writing political interest
I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power. Robert Harris
writing trying four
Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.
writing heart stories
I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
writing years too-late
Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.
writing thinking years
God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years. Robert H. Schuller
writing water levels
however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own. Vita Sackville-West
writing lasts occupation
[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
writing tools tribes
Everybody is writing, writing, writing - worst of all, writing poetry. It'd be better if the whole tribe of the scribblers - every damned one of us - were sent off somewhere with tool chests to do some honest work. Walt Whitman
writing life-is heartbeat
By writing at the instant, the very heartbeat of life is caught.
writing lace sleeves
The best writing has no lace on its sleeves.
writing worry waiting
The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.
writing drug use
I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it. Saul Bellow
writing sea distraction
The writer cannot make the seas of distraction stand still, but he [or she] can at times come between the madly distracted and the distractions.
writing thinking ideas
I think everything has its place. So if the ideas or the fluidity isn't coming in writing, maybe it's related to ingestions. Saul Williams