Quotes about writ
writing men thinking
I have read many definitions of what is a conservationist, and written not a few myself, but I suspect that the best one is written not with a pen, but with an axe. It is a matter of what a man thinks about while chopping, or while deciding what to chop. A conservationist is one who is humbly aware that with each stroke he is writing his signature on the face of his land. Aldo Leopold
writing novel sentiments
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. Aldous Huxley
writing mean buying
I have discovered the most exciting, the most arduous literary form of all, the most difficult to master, the most pregnant in curious possibilities. I mean the advertisement. It is far easier to write ten passably effective Sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.
writing second-thoughts my-thoughts
I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.
writing effort unsuccessful
he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular
writing mind persons
Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers.
writing ideas knows
I know very dimly when I start what's going to happen. I just have a very general idea, and then the thing develops as I write.
writing individuality literature
Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.
writing ambition men
I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'
writing echoes leaving
The spoken discourse may roll on strongly as the great tidal wave; but, like the wave, it dies at last feebly on the sands. It is heard by few, remembered by still fewer, and fades away, like an echo in the mountains, leaving no token of power. It is the written human speech, that gave power and permanence to human thought. Albert Pike
writing romance novel
If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being. Albert Einstein
writing stuff kind
I like English, and I like writing essays, and that kind of stuff. Abigail Breslin
writing makeup hair
I want to do wardrobe. I want to do hair. I want to do makeup. I want to do writing. I want to do directing. I want to do all of it. I like it. And I want to do producing.
writing rose fees
With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get. Abel Ferrara
writing reality mirrors
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words. Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics, and other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties. Aberjhani
writing world tonight
For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin. A. P. Herbert
writing self woven
Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn. A. J. Liebling
writing reflection mature
Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.
writing way damn
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
writing impossible eating
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
writing pay firsts
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
writing faster i-can
I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
writing culinary appetite
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
writing years fans
I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn. A. J. Jacobs
writing shadow feels
Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. A. N. Wilson
writing thinking people
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
written
Education is education, be it verbal or written. Aamir Khan
writing past history
The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down. A. Whitney Brown
writing way paint
I'd like to write the way Matisse paints. A. S. Byatt
writing novelists hated
I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
writing thinking venus
I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.
writing ants literature
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
writing research pieces
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.