Quotes about writ
writing thinking optimism
I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story. Doris Lessing
writing science mirrors
What of course I would like to be writing is the story of the Red and White Dwarves and their Remembering Mirror, their space rocket (powered by anti-gravity), their attendant entities Hadron, Gluon, Pion, Lepton, and Muon, and the Charmed Quarks and the Coloured Quarks. But we can't all be physicists.
writing important care
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.
writing law novel
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
writing
You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.
writing animal way
I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.
writing thinking editors
I think it's especially important for an editor to say what he's enjoying. For a novelist to be told, midstream, what he's doing right can actually influence the unwritten parts of a novel in a positive way - praise helps a writer know what's good about what he's written, what's interesting and exciting, and what to work for in writing the conclusion. Donna Tartt
writing two long
I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.
writing long process
Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.
writing people influence
It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.
writing admire maxwell
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
writing paper terrible
Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper. Donald Hall
writing today engines
Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine.
writing sleep bird
I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.
writing goal trying
If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.
writing goal reason
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.
writing two goal
To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it
writing light hands
Work is style, and there is style without thought; not in theory, only in fact. When I take a sentence in my hand, raise it to the light, rub my hand across it, disjoin it, put it back together again with a comma added, raising the pitch in the front part; when I rub the grain of it, comb the fur of it, re-assemble the bones of it, I am making something that carries with it the sound of a voice, the firmness of a hand. Maybe little more.
writing simple giving
Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting, it can make a very simple melody really different. You can also have a complex melody. The more complex it is, the harder it is to sing, and then sometimes it can sound contrived. You could write a melody that would be fine on a saxophone but if you give it to a singer, it can sound raunchy. Donald Fagen
writing design important
... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual. ... If I had not participated fully in all these activities, literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made, because I would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important. Donald Knuth
writing should-have ideas
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
writing thinking next-week
When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings are going to read. Don't think of it primarily as something a computer is going to follow. The more effective you are at making your program readable, the more effective it's going to be: You'll understand it today, you'll understand it next week, and your successors who are going to maintain and modify it will understand it.
writing style sitting
My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
writing thinking average
A lot of times, writers are told write as big as you can, and that's not untrue. But at times I think it's better to write as small as you can, to start scenes with little personal details or people who are doing average every day human things. That, to me, lets the average reader into that person's life. "Yeah I eat breakfast. I take a shower." Don Winslow
writing television actors
I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television. Donal Logue
writing law people
Rittner's Computer Law: Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour. Don Rittner
writing long decision
In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us to reach a sensible decision. Dale Carnegie
writing artist always-trying
I never took drug to escape. I know some people take drugs to escape, but I took drugs because I was an experimenter. And an artist. And I was always trying to go to the other side of that veil and get information, like all writers have done through the millennia. To get some insights on how the whole thing works, if there's any way to know how it works, and write about it. Creed Bratton
writing editing people
A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there's no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking. Craig Newmark
writing people different
Everyone is different, but I'm not standoffish at all. I'm not one of those people who prefer to write a note. I'll walk right up to you and ask you out! Even if the answer's no, I'm totally cool with it. Corbin Bleu
writing offending laughing
In comedy you sometimes have to look at the funny bone a little bit. So, that was the hardest part - was not offending. I'm not laughing at anybody. We're laughing together about who we are - and the funnier part of who we are. I'm (sure) not writing this and calling you a stereotype. I'm not doing that. Corbin Bernsen
writing interesting people
It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people. Claude Chabrol
writing attention may
One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects Claude C. Hopkins