Quotes about writ
writing calm restraint
Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer. Gustave Flaubert
writing one-day shells
One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.
writing sea wade
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
writing hair shining
Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.
writing long talent
Talent is long patience.
writing giving wish
Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.
writing paris giving
Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill. Graydon Carter
writing years two
I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing. Gordon Parks
writing two interesting
It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of". Gordon Lightfoot
writing denver sitting
I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
writing thinking years
I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration. It wasn't a grandiose as you'd think but I did have to to go to Los Angeles to do it and get an understanding of the keyboard because the keyboard became my tool and I used it a lot in transposing and composing. All the flats and time values. I spent a year doing that because in those days you had to be able to write your own music and read sheets.
writing people want
I won't let people write anything they want to about me. Gordon Ramsay
writing editors people
If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing. Gilbert K. Chesterton
writing good-times easier
It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.
writing men may
Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose. John Dryden
writing enemy vices
The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.
writing editors decision
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all the final decisions. Louis Sachar
writing texas holes
I guess what led to me writing 'Holes' was having moved to Texas in 1991, and it was sort of my reaction to Texas.
writing character thinking
Part of me becomes the characters I'm writing about. I think readers feel like they are there, the way I am, as a result.
writing may speech
Never write down your speeches beforehand; if you do, you may perhaps be a good declaimer, but will never be a debater. Lord Chesterfield
writing men giving
Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.
writing history advice
Advice to Persons About to Write History - Don't. Lord Acton
writing math college
The basic skills of math, English and writing are not enough, ... You must develop a basic system of values to form and guide the use of these skills. The true test will not be what you learned in college, but how you used what you learned. Jim Rogers
writing past masters
General rules have been legislated into being by past masters. John Ciardi
writing mean men
If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.
writing men talking
I live here among the ignorant like a lost man in fact like one whom the rest seemes careless of having anything to do with—they hardly dare talk in my company for fear I should mention them in my writings and I find more pleasure in wandering the fields than in musing among my silent neighbours who are insensible to everything but toiling and talking of it and that to no purpose. John Clare
writing views innovation
Science fiction offers an intensely bracing angle of view for writers to adopt, especially in a time of constant innovation and crisis, and it is a scandal that in 1999 so many writers have written it and continue to write it in obscurity. John Clute
writing giving actors
On movies, I like to involve the cast in the writing of the script. I like to have a rehearsal period, after which I do the last draft, which gives me a chance to incorporate anything the actors have come up with during the rehearsal period, so I'm very inclusive as a writer. John Cleese
writing perfect want
I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.
writing thinking skills
Writing is the great skill, the creative skill. The acting is more an interpretative skill. And the thrill for me is the moment when I think of something. And then the challenge is how to get that funny idea to work in terms of the structure and that kind of thing, which is - and that's what I really love doing.
writing past wells
Why write about the past? Well, there's more of it.
writing mind actors
I tend to have an odd split in my mind: I tend to look at it as a writer and when the writing thing is OK and I'm happy with it, then I put on my actor's hat.
writing circles important
The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it up than anyone else.