Quotes about writ
writing safe difficult
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions. Wietse Venema
writing giving godlike
What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you. Wilbur Smith
writing color play
[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything. Whoopi Goldberg
writing keys lines
I sometimes have to write for a while before I figure it out, pretend that I know what I'm doing, sort of like ad-libbing on stage until you remember your line - you hope you sound convincing to the audience. The key is to have enough material, enough threads, so that there's something that can be satisfyingly drawn to a conclusion. Said Sayrafiezadeh
writing editing simplicity
There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity. Saint Francis de Sales
writing
Stand-up is really personal. It's not like somebody else is writing the script and you have to do what they write. Tracy Morgan
writing sides bigs
There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business. Tori Amos
writing important territory
The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes. Van Wyck Brooks
writing airports paper
So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport. Upamanyu Chatterjee
writing interesting care
And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting. Uma Thurman
writing fake conspiracy
Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I'm involved, in all of my writings, the theoretical ones as well as the novels, with the production of fakes. Umberto Eco
writing poet elizabethan
Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
writing names ideas
I started to write [ The Name of the Rose ] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
writing doors forgiving
A writer writes for writers, a non-writer writes for his next-door neighbor or for the manager of the local bank branch, and he fears (often mistakenly) that they would not understand or, in any case, would not forgive his boldness.
writing ready has-beens
The least learned, for the most part, have been always most ready to write. Roger Ascham
writing littles too-much
Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little.
writing listening say-anything
They [candidates] say, "I don't want to say anything controversial." And so nobody covers them. Then they blame the journalists, saying "Why don't they write down what I said?" In congressional races, 90 percent of the time the answer is, "Because you are boring and you don't have anything that makes me interested in listening to you. Why the heck should somebody write it down? There's nothing here worth hearing." Roger Ailes
writing jumping way
I used to be an obsessive outliner - figuring that writing without an outline was like jumping off a cliff and building a parachute on the way down. Robin Wasserman
writing levels kind
I've never had a "hankering" to direct. I can perform, but I can't write on that level. I tend to go off on tangents. Directing also requires a kind of specificity and I don't have it. Robin Williams
writing thinking patterns
There can be a science to joke writing, there are certainly rules and patterns that can be followed, but I think most of the best comedy goes beyond the rules. Robin Ince
writing waiting permission
Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate. Robin Hobb
writing people want
Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'
writing unique ideas
Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don't have to try any more. Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them.
writing robins your-future
Your future. It awaits only you, to live it and to write it. - Shaman's Crossing by Robin Hobb
writing sitting littles
Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.
writing past artist
As an architect, I try to be guided not by habit but by a conscious sense of the past-by precedent, thoughtfully considered...As an artist, I frankly write about what I like in architecture: complexity and contradiction. From what we find we like-what we are easily attracted to-we can learn much of what we really are. Robert Venturi
writing mind life-experience
Anyone who can only write about themselves or their life experiences, in my mind, isn't a very good writer. Robert Rodriguez
writing ideas people
Your mind just goes to the craziest idea to lure people into the theater, and then you write your script around those elements.
writing people tasks
By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people who call journalism 'content. Robert Motherwell
writing form extensions
Form is never more than an extension of content. Robert Creeley
writing hopefully knows
Hopefully, I write what I don't know.
writing men thinking
I don’t think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.
writing play important
Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.