Quotes about writ
writing want knows
We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out. Wallace Stegner
writing practice skills
Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.
writing make-sense
We write to make sense of it all.
writing want ends
I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end. Samuel Beckett
writing letters life-is
My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured.
writing joyce
James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.
writing two waste
There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.
writing silence matter
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
writing years long
But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long. Samuel Daniel
writing plain-language imagination
Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
writing plagiarism stolen
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
writing prose-poetry order
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
writing paint get-up
Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy. Samuel L. Jackson
writing wagner please
Please write music like Wagner, only louder. Samuel Goldwyn
writing race choices
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.
writing kitchen woven
I often write into recipes techniques that I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do. Sally Schneider
writing people accountability
People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture. Salman Khurshid
writing heaven acting
Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven. Salma Hayek
writing people forgiving
Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive. Salman Rushdie
writing horizon
My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
writing islam satanic
When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
writing stuff way
When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.
writing thinking typewriters
In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
writing fighting trying
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
writing together different
The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
writing boys cities
I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
writing thinking exception
In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
writing voice people
Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
writing drawing people
Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'
writing islam fiction
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
writing character thinking
I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they live in, to the story you have to tell, but just a kind of deep attention and out of that if you pay attention properly the story will tell you what it needs.
writing thinking vanity
When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you that is lacking in foibles and weaknesses and egotism and vanities and so on. You're just trying to really say something as truthful as you can out of the best that you have in you.
writing essence obvious-things
What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything down and find the kind of essence, the skeleton if you like, which can then be fleshed out by performance and cinematography.