Quotes about writ
writing life-and-death doe
An author frequently chooses solemn or overwhelming subjects to write about; he is so impressed at writing about Life and Death that he does not notice that he is saying nothing of the slightest importance about either. Randall Jarrell
writing successful people
A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental when the poem is good, or embarrassing or absurd when it is bad and he is not permitted to say how the good poem is good, and may never know how the bad poem is bad. It is better to write about other people's poetry.
writing poet
whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best.
writing poet cures
Many poets...write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.
writing arrows way
The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent. Ralph Waldo Emerson
writing law grace
We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off. Randall Terry
writing wish rhyme
I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
writing dew should
Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.
writing quality paint
We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.
writing growing horns
So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.
writing lines reader
Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.
writing grace grace-of-god
All writing comes by the grace of God.
writing character men
The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
writing thinking long
I think ultimately it's just time management. You're just doing a lot more stuff. You're doing the same stuff, you're writing and you're producing, but it just comes with a lot of other things. A lot of long term thinking and plotting things out for the future, bringing elements together. I have a lot of support. Scott M. Gimple
writing keyboards losing
It is horrible to sit in front of the keyboard and write those scenes because you're losing too. You lose somebody you enjoy working with.
writing thinking hands
I don't know necessarily that I would produce under my own company right now. Producing is not something that I'm thinking about. Directing is something that I will be doing very shortly, trying to figure out what to get my hands on. And I can't imagine writing a script and wanting to direct it and not having a producing credit, because I would want to have a big chunk of power on that end, if I wrote something. Scarlett Johansson
writing opportunity talking
You have Cameron Crowe write an incredible monologue for you just based on the things that you're talking about. It just became this opportunity that was too exciting a process to pass up.
writing hands trying
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. Shelby Foote
writing want study
If you want to study writing, read Dickens
writing today ifs
I wasn't encouraged to write just stand there and sing and I never thought I was a writer. I always figured if I couldn't write something as good as "He Stopped Loving Her Today," then what's the point? Shelby Lynne
writing knows
I write about what I know.
writing world want
I would want to travel the world and write about it. To be a famous writer. Shantel VanSanten
writing hard-work kind
When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another. Sean O'Casey
writing men thinking
All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others. L. Ron Hubbard
writing religion atheism
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
writing men tools
It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless. Lewis Mumford
writing unique mind
Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not a special, unique gift of human beings, marking us off from the rest of nature. Lewis Thomas
writing garden thinking
Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't happen that way at all. At some point I get misled down a garden path, I get surprised by an idea that I hadn't anticipated getting, which is a little bit like being in a laboratory.
writing long important
The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along. If you try to come back after doing a paragraph and stick them in the various spots that tempt you you will discover that they tend to swarm like minnows into sorts of crevices whose existence you hadn't realized and before you know it the whole long sentence becomes immobilized and lashed up squirming in commas. Better to use them sparingly, and with affection, precisely when the need for each one arises, nicely, by itself.
writing lazy laziness
It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes. Leslie Charteris
writing lasts revenue
Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.
writing literature ifs
If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.
writing imagination genre
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination. Leslie Banks