Quotes about writ
writing thinking people
Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem. Charles Bukowski
writing simple secret
The secret is writing down one simple line after another.
writing trying
not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.
writing police musical
Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.' Edward Abbey
writing records may
But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.
writing trying may
I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
writing facts fidelity
In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
writing selective
I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.
writing people challenges
Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
writing mean volcanoes
When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.
writing people singing
It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing. Eddie Van Halen
writing
I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
writing character mind
When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum. Atom Egoyan
writing play voice
I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.
writing hardest hard
Writing is hard - writing is the hardest. Aubrey Plaza
writing thinking steps
Writing lets you step back and think through a problem. Even the angriest rant forces the writer to achieve a degree of thoughtfulness. Atul Gawande
writing thinking trying
Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going.
writing mind speech
Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech. Aristotle
writing details stories
As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.
writing speak easy
In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.
writing views castles
Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different. Ben Hecht
writing people intellectual
The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
writing sweat lines
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat. Ben Jonson
writing player answers
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
writing exercise men
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
writing good-writing ready
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
writing inspire tone
I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics.
writing guitar ukulele
I was able to apply ukulele to whatever I'm trying to write. It's become part of songwriting for me, the knowledge I gained from hearing the melodies come out, and then applying that to guitar or vocals. Eddie Vedder
writing guitar ukulele
Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.
writing choices world
If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.
writing editors careers
I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me. Ed McBain
writing different mindset
Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.
writing style actors
Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.