Quotes about writ
writing silence matter
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. Samuel Beckett
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.
writing self best-self
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
writing
I didn't become a writer to write about me.
writing knows who-you-are
Until you know who you are you can’t write.
writing forever cool-things
The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever. Ryan Tedder
writing advice done
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile. Rudy Rucker
writing soul way
I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close. Rudolf Steiner
writing comedy checks
In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good. Wendy Liebman