Quotes about writ
writing taught seems
A life spent writing has taught me to be wary of words. Those that seem clearest are often the most treacherous. Amin Maalouf
writing people bathroom
I write poems like some people sing in the bathroom. Amit Bhatia
writing names desire
I wrote much because I was paid little. I had no great desire to leave a literary name behind me. Anthony Burgess
writing
The writer's life seethes within but not without.
writing names littles
I chart a little first-list of names, rough synopsis of chapters, and so on. But one daren't overplan; so many things are generated by the sheer act of writing.
writing fearless clockwork
We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.
writing justice lenses
You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter how good your cameras are, how well it's edited, there's no way the lenses could have captured the moment, and there's no way you will ever be able to write about it and do it justice. Anthony Bourdain
writing years car
When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car.
writing treason
Writing anything is a treason of sorts.
writing thinking college
In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing.
writing interesting worldview
[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.
writing editing trying
I write quickly with a sense of urgency. I don't edit myself out of existence, meaning I'll try to write 50 or 60 pages before I start rereading, revising and editing. That just helps with my confidence.
writing important prime
Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too. Andy Summers
writing guitar synthesizers
For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
writing long long-time
I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time. Andy Serkis
writing people passionate
Working with people you adore and love. There's just a sense, all the way through all of the movies [Planet of Apes], that you're very rarely in a position where you have great material that you're passionate about and a big audience who love it, and the detail and nuance, and the exquisiteness of the fantastic actors and director with great writing.
writing thinking typewriters
When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say. Andy Rooney
writing should sentences
Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
writing punctuation-marks confusing
The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.
writing television wells
It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.
writing retiring
I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.
writing thinker good-writers
You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.
writing generosity giving
Generosity won't happen unless you make it a priority. The best way to make giving a priority is to make it the very first check you write every month. Before the mortgage. Before groceries or clothing. Before saving. Whatever the amount, do it first. Andy Stanley
writing vision ink
Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink
writing thinking people
Nutty people are always writing me. I always think I must be on some nutty mailing list. Andy Warhol
writing thinking-about-you people
Some people spend their entire lives thinking about one particular famous person. They pick one person who's famous, and they dwell on him or her. They devote almost their entire consciousness to thinking about this person they've never even met, or maybe met once. If you ask any famous person about the kind of mail they get, you'll find that almost every one of them has at least one person who's obsessed with them and writes constantly. It feels so strange to think that someone is spending their whole time thinking about you.
writing hair necks
If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock. Andrew Pyper
writing discovery self
Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before. Andrew O'Hagan
writing thinking sometimes
I don't freestyle, but when I'm writing and thinking, sometimes things pop up - that's basically a freestyle. Andre Benjamin
writing opposites grace
Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we don't know we know." Andre Dubus
writing thinking discovery
What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us, not just writers, there is a sort of knowledge of the other. We have a lot more in common than we realize, and I think writing is really a sustained act of empathy.
writing fog years
I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of Sand and Fog,' my wife never saw a word of it. I just have to keep it in the womb, and then everyone can have a crack at it.
writing
Even a day writing badly for me is 10 times better than a day where I don’t write at all.