Quotes about writ
writing thinking wells
To write is to think, and to write well is to think well, David McCullough
writing thinking suffering
The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.
writing love-is thinking
I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.
writing years research
I had been writing for about twelve years. I knew pretty well how you could find things out, but I had never been trained in an academic way how to go about the research.
writing independence firsts
According to Adams, Jefferson proposed that he, Adams, do the writing [pf the Declaration of Independence], but that he declined, telling Jefferson he must do it. Why?" Jefferson asked, as Adams would recount. Reasons enough," Adams said. What can be your reasons?" Reason first: you are a Virginian and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. Reason second: I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular. You are very much otherwise. Reason third: You can write ten times better than I can.
writing thinking wells
Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
writing temptation awful
There's an awful temptation to just keep on researching. There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.
writing people trying
You have to get inside the people you are writing about. You have to go below the surface. And that's to a very large degree what all writers are doing - they're trying to get below the surface. Whether it's in fiction or poetry or writing history and biography. Some people make that possible because they write wonderful letters and diaries. And you have to sort of go where the material is.
writing thinking play
You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
writing lines matter
Write something every single day, even if it's just three lines. And it doesn't matter if it's any good - just write something every day. David Mitchell
writing editing self
Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.
writing i-can
I can write pretty much anywhere.
writing
Lunatics are writers whose works write them.
writing winter would-be
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.
writing space effort
Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing. David Knopfler
writing scared difficult
I got scared away from the whole writing and producing thing, because of how really, truly difficult this was. David Krumholtz
writing
We had very, very, very little money to make the show [ Gigi Does It]. We shot every episode in two days. It was non-WGA, non-DGA, so we couldn't write anything. The whole thing had to be improv.
writing emotional thinking
In terms of writing, I think something happens to you, and you think, "Oh I'm going to write about that. That's an emotional event." But obviously, if you keep going, and it's something you do with regularity, you've got to find other ways to write. David Gray
writing way said
Hemingway said the only way to write about a place is to leave it. David Guterson
writing my-family
What sustains me is to be with my family and to write.
writing college class
When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.
writing inspire stories
I write because something inner and unconscious forces me to. That is the first compulsion. The second is one of ethical and moral duty. I feel responsible to tell stories that inspire readers to consider more deeply who they are.
writing advice wells
The best advice on writing I've ever received is to take it seriously, because to do it well is all-consuming.
writing groups composer
I began like all composers, writing for small groups. Chamber groups. David Del Tredici
writing symphony musical
Composers love to write for symphony orchestras because the symphony is the Rolls Royce of musical instruments.
writing issues language
Anyone interested in language ends up writing about the sociological issues around it. David Crystal
writing attention drunkenness
While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will. David Crosby
writing brain
I'm directing the Sky show. I'm not going to be in it. I'm just writing and directing it. So that'll satisfy that part of my brain. David Cross
writing upset female
And it's one more shitty thing to write about somebody, in between getting really, really, really upset at female Ghostbusters and Gamergate, and the things that really matter.
writing thinking ideas
I'll think of the idea and then I'll write something down, then within that there will be a joke or two which is the original thing which I thought was funny.
writing views people
I don't like anything unsigned in a newspaper that purports to be the opinion of some group if we don't know who the group is. It's laughable to say that The Miami Herald's editorials or any newspaper's editorials represent any views other than those of the people writing them, so why don't we tell everybody who they are? Dave Barry
writing thinking care
When I'm writing columns, it's - all I'm thinking about is jokes, joke, joke, joke, setup, punch line, joke, joke, joke. And I really don't care where it goes.
writing despair elements
Panicky despair is an underrated element of writing.