Quotes about writ
writing stories want
Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time. Charles Soule
writing years long
If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year. Charles Stross
writing hints facts
If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!
writing ideas stories
Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.
writing typewriters keys
I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.
writing ideas care
If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?
writing novel available
Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.
writing giving window
I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.
writing years ideas
I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.
writing easy
It's usually quite easy to shrug and write something else instead.
writing fiction firsts
Fiction is about human beings, first and foremost. (It's not impossible to write fiction with no human protagonists, but it's very hard to keep the reader interested ...)
writing blessing trials
We are too prone to engrave our trials in marble and write our blessings in sand. Charles Spurgeon
writing men light
When a mortal man speaks anything of that eternal blessedness of the saints in glory, he is like a blind man discoursing about the light which he has never seen, and so cannot distinctly speak anything concerning it. He also said that "In a way it is akin to a man writing a travel guide for a land he has never visited or seen. It is to attempt to describe the indescribable with words which cannot come close to expressing the glory of heaven.
writing editors effort
Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor. Meg Cabot
writing learning important
I will consistently strive to learn by what I hear, see, and feel. I will write down the important things I learn, and I will do them. Richard G. Scott
writing giving important
A quiet impression could be a personal instruction from the Lord. It is personal and private. It comes from the Lord. Why is it important to keep sacred writings private? Because then He will give us more.
writing ideas perfect
There's nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that's what's most precious. Ricky Gervais
writing editing ideas
I like every part [of the film process ] except the business and admin stuff. The initial idea. Writing. Re-writing. Casting. Directing, Editing. If I had to chose I'd say writing, followed by putting music on the picture. That is magical.
writing discipline tvs
Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable commodity.
writing favors newspapers
When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts. Susan B. Anthony
writing men thinking
We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
writing reflection men
Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men's ideas. As long as that continues, women's ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.
writing culture email
[On culture] It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall. Brian Chesky
writing space musical
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience. Brian Eno
writing what-matters atmosphere
What matters in modern music is not the part you can write down, the words and the tune, but the rest - the texture, the atmosphere, the references and associations.
writing peculiar process
My lyrics are generated by various peculiar processes. Very random and similar to automatic writing.
writing historical looks
When you look back on a historical period of music, it seems so obvious to you what the characteristics of it are, but they're not obvious at the time. So, when I look back at my own work, I could easily write a very convincing sort of account of it that made it look like I had planned it all out from day one and that this led logically to that and then I did this and then that followed quite naturally from that. But that's not how it felt.
writing thinking trying
I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read. Brent Runyon
writing creating
I'm addicted to creating and writing. Bret Michaels
writing past talking
Well, [bluntness in songwriting]'s a lot cheaper than therapy.... There's been a lot of things going on for the past 10 years that I just never really confronted, or used metaphors to do so. This time out I wanted to make sure that everyone knows what I'm talking about and where I'm coming from. Brent Smith
writing together letters
Howbeit, though no scholar, I am not one of those who misuse the English speech, and, being foolishly led by the hasty custom of scriveners and printers to write the letters "T" and "H" joined together, which resembleth a "Y," do incontinently jump to the conclusion the THE is pronounced "Ye,"--the like of which I never heard in all England. Bret Harte
writing twists surprising
My writing has a lot of surprising twists, Brent Weeks
writing joy feelings
No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy. Bret Easton Ellis