Quotes about writ
writing people comfort
Many people go into the wilderness to experience it, and if they experience it in comfort, there's very little in a literary sense for them to write about. Tim Cahill
writing two people
I see many people trying to write well about the wilderness, and essentially failing. To me there are basically two aspects of a failed outdoor story. One is the phony epiphany on the mountain top.
writing html people
If you use the original World Wide Web program, you never see a URL or have to deal with HTML. That was a surprise to me - that people were prepared to painstakingly write HTML. Tim Berners-Lee
writing class important
If you just want to be a writer, I don't care, for pitching, for writing dialogue, you should take an improvisation class. It's super important. Thomas Lennon
writing needs laptops
The good thing about being a writer is that you don't need anything except for a laptop. You can really do your own work and if you're not manically compelled to write all the time before you do it professionally, it's probably not a business for you anyway.
writing littles way
I never thought I would write the way that I write for the studios now, which is like, not little novels, but be someone who literally is more like, you know, sometimes I guess we describe, we're more Salieri than Mozart.
writing fate hands
The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the story, the story is the story. See? Sometimes this is very hard to accept and sometimes too easy. On the one hand, there’s the writer who can’t face his fate: that the telling of a story has nothing at all to do with him; on the other hand, there’s the one who faces it too well: that the telling of the story has nothing at all to do with him Thomas Ligotti
writing native-language two
No instance exists of a person's writing two language perfectly. That will always appear to be his native language which was most familiar to him in his youth. Thomas Jefferson
writing expression ideas
Where strictness of grammar does not weaken expression, it should be attended to. . . . But where, by small grammatical negligences, the energy of an idea is condensed, or a word stands for a sentence, I hold grammatical rigor in contempt.
writing mirrors way
One of the things I keep coming back to in my writing is that society doesn't work on this mirror principle - you don't have an exact replica on the left of what you have on the right. It just doesn't work that way. Thomas Frank
writing years discipline
Architecture is a discipline that takes time and patience. If one spends enough years writing complex novels one might be able, someday, to construct a respectable haiku. Thom Mayne
writing gay interesting
I notice that students, particularly for gay students, it's too easy to write about my last trick or something. It's not very interesting to the reader. Thom Gunn
writing people bars
I deliberately decided to write a kind of guide to leather bars for straight people, for people not into leather, so that people could see what it was all about.
writing thinking class
I admired what my students were writing, but I think their improvement doesn't directly result from me but from being in a class, being with each other.
writing boys tunes
Composers should write tunes that chauffeurs and errand boys can whistle. Thomas Beecham
writing mind trying
And it is a folly to try to craft a novel for the screen, to write a novel with a screen contract in mind. Thomas Keneally
writing recipes stories
I wanted to write about what we were doing at the French Laundry, the recipes and the stories. Thomas Keller
writing recipes problem
One of the problems with writing a cookbook is that recipes exist in the moment.
writing thinking order
We must allow ourselves to think, we must dare to think, even though we fail. It is in the nature of things that we always fail, because we suddenly find it impossible to order our thoughts, because the process of thinking requires us to consider every thought there is, every possible thought. Fundamentally we have always failed, like all the others, whoever they were, even the greatest minds. At some point, they suddenly failed and their system collapsed, as is proved by their writings, which we admire because they venture farthest into failure. To think is to fail, I thought. Thomas Bernhard
writing
The only friends I have are the dead who have bequethed their writings to me--I have no others.
writing too-late lost
Very often we write down a sentence too early, then another too late; what we have to do is write it down at the proper time, otherwise it's lost.
writing reputation discrepancies
Between the reputation of the author living and the reputation of the same author dead there is ever a wide discrepancy. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
writing singers
I'm a better writer than I am a singer, and I express myself easily through writing. Rebecca Ferguson
writing
I like to write poetry.
writing people romance
That music and the lyrical aspects of Razorblade Romance is so personal to me that, now with me being grown up a bit and meeting new people and doing new things, it makes me look at the same things I was writing about back in the day through a different colored lens. Ville Valo
writing journey track
Yeah I'm still writing. I've got about 14 tracks now. But we've been on tour so we haven't had time to get back to a rehearsal place.
writing feelings trying
My gut feeling about sequels is that they should be premeditated: You should try to write a trilogy first or at least sketch out a trilogy if you have any faith in your film. Vin Diesel
writing enough consistently
I'm not disciplined enough to be a writer consistently. I write when I have to.
writing world rooms
When I'm writing, I'm locking myself in a room. I'm the worst critic in the world. I write something and then I beat myself up. I'm like "Vin, you're retarded, that makes no sense."
writing caps should
Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap. Vijay Singh
writing scary pages
I like writing a lot more than I used to. I used to find it scary but now I've got used to it once it gets going. I used to find it hard to start. Fear of the blank page. The first thing you write down won't bear any relation to what's in your head and that's always disappointing. Victoria Wood
writing garden facts
It's true that I have a wide range of interests. I like to write and paint and make music and go walking on my own and garden. In fact, gardening is probably what I enjoy doing more than anything else. Viggo Mortensen
writing want appeals
I want to write music that's going to appeal to everyone. Victoria Justice