Quotes about writ
writing thinking doors
I'm really proud of the writing on Door to Door, and I think that's the Emmy that meant the most - the writing. William H. Macy
writing pedants faults
To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant. William Hazlitt
writing mean passion
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable or painful, mean or dignified, delightful or distressing. It is the perfect coincidence of the image and the words with the feeling we have, and of which we cannot get rid in any other way, that gives an instant "satisfaction to the thought." This is equally the origin of wit and fancy, of comedy and tragedy, of the sublime and pathetic.
writing men thinking
Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote.
writing simplicity style
Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it.
writing men
The more a man writes, the more he can write.
writing important charity
Writing checks for charities is necessary and important. But it can't compare with corporal works of mercy, which are infinitely greater. William E. Simon
writing people stories
I would fix other people's lines if they asked me on occasion. The hard part of writing is the architecture of it, getting the story and structuring it. Not the tweaking of lines. William Devane
writing giving fiction
It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good material if life hasn't been peachy (and not a whole lot if it has). Wendelin Van Draanen
writing use literature
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use, or beauty or form, we are borrowers. Wendell Phillips
writing government people
Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.
writing discovery limits
Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you don't know everything you know. Walter Murch
writing poetry difficult
Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult. Walter Pater
writing mutation fiction
Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing technological world and as a result. The mainstream hasn’t excluded SF; the mainstream has excluded itself. No one told Jules Verne he was a science fiction writer, but he invented the 20th century. Walter Mosley
writing expectations criticism
This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations, without the need to look at your words as if they were already printed and bound. The beginning is only a draft. Drafts are imperfect by definition.
writing needs want
All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.
writing stories normal
I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just a wonderful thing. Some of my stories work, some of them don't work. Some of them are wild and I love them, but they certainly don't fit into any kind of a normal system that I know about.
writing ideas stories
I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I just love that, and I've always loved that.
writing thinking world
I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that they see the world and they structure the world.
writing journey creating
The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yourself to drift, you will never make it to the destination. It's not like highly defined train tracks or a highway; this is a path that you are creating discovering. The journey is your narrative. Keep to it and there will be a tale told.
writing two scary
The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.
writing history may
Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth. Walter Raleigh
writing opportunity simple
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
writing young-writers trouble
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. W. Somerset Maugham
writing office world
Your vivid, exciting companionship in the office must not be your audience, you must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world. Willa Cather
writing age fifteen
Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.
writing caring fighting
The test of one's decency is how much of a fight one can put up after one has stopped caring, and after one has found out that one can never please the people they wanted to please.
writing numbers want
Hurry up and write your number down before I don't want it no more, Will Smith
writing hands names
Being famous is such a gift for me because small things make people's lives brighter. You just shake somebody's hand. You just smile and write your name and people will talk about it for the rest of their lives.
writing focus etc
My neck and shoulders are killing me. Hard to focus on writing about murder, doom, shagging, our hopeless future & other comedy etc etc. Warren Ellis
writing love-is thinking
The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: "I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love." But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get. Warren Buffett
writing thinking force
There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.
writing people environmental
I always thought we had an environmental problem, but I hadn't realized how urgent it was. James Lovelock writes that by the end of this century there will be one billion people left. Vivienne Westwood