Quotes about writ
writing novel knows
Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know. C. S. Forester
writing men doe
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
writing night months
Writing day and night for months ... that's hard. C. J. Cherryh
writing long garbage
It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.
writing fiction world
I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible things that happen every day in the world. Which I have no interest in doing. Bryan Fuller
writing made feels
I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good. Cathy Marie Buchanan
writing power men
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings. Catherine the Great
writing want position
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
writing eyebrows ifs
If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.
writing fire long
I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the old world looked at a woman alone and immortal and said: she must long to die, I have tried to say: look at her live! Catherynne M. Valente
writing novel ought
Someone ought to write a novel about me,
writing play people
There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that, because plays are about the whole event that they are. . . . I was certainly wanting to write a play about damage - damage to nature and damage to people, both of which there's plenty of about. To that extent, I was writing a play about England now. Caryl Churchill
writing prejudice language
Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved. Casey Miller
writing world wanted
I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly. Carl Honore
writing shining decision
No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these clowns don't read, can't write, and clearly can't add. Carl Hiaasen
written
'Swimming Pool' was a very important moment for me because the character was written for me. Ludivine Sagnier
written
I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people. Lisa Cholodenko
writing down-and jokes
I could never sit down and write jokes. Louis C. K.
writing thinking skills
I'm close to my audience. I think I have more tools in my box than other guys who might try it. Also, I know how to do this stuff. I know how to write and shoot and edit. I'm technically adept and that helped with the website. You need a big skill set.
writing thinking laughing
When you write from your gut and let the stuff stay flawed and don't let anybody tell you to make it better, it can end up looking like nothing else.
writing two people
That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards," said Mrs. Berman. "You don't write for the whole world, and you don't write for ten people, or two. You write for just one person. Kurt Vonnegut
writing thinking careers
I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department. And I wrote some good stuff. If I had been in the English department, the prof would have looked at my short stories, congratulated me on my talent, and then showed me how Joyce or Hemingway handled the same elements of the short story. The prof would have placed me in competition with the greatest writers of all time, and that would have ended my writing career.
writing drug salesman
I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.
writing people stories
The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.
writing people thank-god
Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.
writing fans machines
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometimes I wrote well about collisions, which meant I was a writing machine in good repair. Sometimes I wrote badly, which meant I was a writing machine in bad repair. I no more harbored sacredness than did a Pontiac, a mousetrap, or a South Bend Lathe.
writing thinking fool
She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].
writing people decline
You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.
writing brain way
The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.
writing wonder wells
I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand.
writing thinking mountain
[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.
writing railroads steel
If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality. Mark Cuban
writing media issues
You need a place where you can explain yourself. You can write as much or as little as you would like, but the words will be all yours. You can create the context. You can make sure that all issues are addressed. You can take issue with individuals or the media as a whole. Your words, your message.