Quotes about writ
writing men world
As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women. Samuel Johnson
writing thinking parent
I found that life intruding on writing was, in fact, life. And that, tempting as it may be for a writer who is a parent, one must not think of life as an intrusion. At the end of the day, writing has very little to do with writing, and much to do with life. And life, by definition, is not an intrusion. Sarah Ruhl
writing theatre amazing-places
A multivalent culture is an amazing place to be writing theatre.
writing thinking play
I think theatre is a democratic act and I think writing a play is not a democratic act. I think we should give writers more leeway and space to write the thing they want to write, and then we should produce the play, multiple times, and let them re-write it.
writing trying way
Write it as it is, don't try to make it like this or that. You can't do it in anybody else's way-you will have to make a way of your own. Sarah Orne Jewett
writing world quiet
You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
writing needs doe
A poem need not have a meaning and like most things in nature often does not have. Wallace Stevens
writing night doors
...after a night spent writing poetry, one is almost happy to hear the milkman at the door.
writing fate race
The whole race is a poet that writes down / The eccentric propositions of its fate.
writing men poetry
A poet looks at the world the way a man looks at a woman.
writing two historical
I find historical figures in general very tricky because you feel at times that you're serving two masters. Not only the arc and wonderful writing that comes with the show, but also the history of a person's life. Vincent Piazza
writing accomplishment novelists
The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to draw, and then learns when utterly to disregard his accomplishment, when to subordinate it to a higher and truer effect. Willa Cather
writing years perfect
If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.
writing creative mind
Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius would overstock the world, and the mind would be completely bewildered in the endless mazes of literature. Washington Irving
writing heart may
Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.
writing stories materials
I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials.
writing elements want
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can. Walter Jon Williams
writing college courses
I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
writing reason
I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.
writing character world
Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.
writing thinking slow-motion
Writing is thinking in slow motion. Walter Kaufmann
writing years games
realized that at a level I'd never been conscious we'd been engaged in a game of wits for years. I suppose most writer-subject pairings are like that. Of course, I'd set aside my plan to write about him [Clark Rockfeller] as soon as I'd gotten to know him some, but now I'd resumed that intention. Walter Kirn
writing dollars
I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing. Walter Lord
writing men thinking
I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away. Walter Lippmann
writing names snow
You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing. Voltaire
writing enemy nouns
The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.
writing voice painting
Writing is the painting of the voice.
writing facts dictionary
The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.
writing hatred literature
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.
writing thinking simplicity
To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain. William Feather
writing concise vigorous
Vigorous writing is concise. William Strunk, Jr.
writing weakness needs
Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.
writing should-have drawing
A drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.