Quotes about writ
writing known knows
I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something. Rebecca West
writing loss world
It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth. Rebecca West
writing years glee
Even though 'Glee' is sometimes a hard road, I am very excited about writing a multi-year arc. Ryan Murphy
writing editing edited
No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published. Russell Lynes
writing intelligent honest
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life. Russell Banks
writing paint draws
Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing. Russell Banks
writing program apprenticeship
The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer. Russell Banks
writing people care
And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care. Russell Banks
writing discipline attention
If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work. Russell Banks
writing self-confidence arrogance
It takes great self-confidence to write a newspaper column. Some might say it takes arrogance. Be that as it may, my willingness to pronounce on a great many matters of which I have little or no knowledge is one of my prime qualifications for this trade. Russell Baker
writing people literature
There is a growing literature about the multitude of journalism's problems, but most of it is concerned with the editorial side of the business, possibly because most people competent to write about journalism are not comfortable writing about finance. Russell Baker
writing media people
Letter writing was clearly important to Reagan. Even as president he kept dashing off letters to friends, pen pals, media people, statesmen, critics, and the kind of people who write to presidents never expecting a reply. Russell Baker
writing play roles
In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard. Russell Baker
writing thinking meaningless-things
I enjoyed having a reputation as being wild, but these days I try not to worry about what people think in the privacy of their own brain or what they write in the bizarre publicity of their own newspapers, because all of those things are meaningless. Russell Brand
writing engineering uranium-mining
I didn't write because in the corps I took mining engineering of all things and, you know, they, they graduate a mining engineer as a sort of an illiterate. Rube Goldberg
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. Thomas Steinbeck
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. Thomas Perry
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. Thomas Perry
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. Robert McKee
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. Robert McKee
writing cake recipes
There is no screenplay-writing recipe that guarantees your cake will rise. Robert McKee
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. Robert McKee
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. Robert McKee
writing discipline drill-sergeant
All writing is discipline, but screenwriting is a drill sergeant. Robert McKee
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. Robert Kirkman