Quotes about writ
writing crafts spirit
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit. Anna Quindlen
writing thinking people
I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
writing news stories
Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it is the stories we didn't write, the questions we didn't ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did.
writing thinking people
Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.
writing suits certain
You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.
writing sunday brain
I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7.
writing trying habit
My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write.
writing journey discovery
The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That's how life is most of the time, isn't it? You know where you are and where you hope to wind up. It's the getting there that's challenging.
writing
Not writing at all leads to nothing.
writing years editors
At the same time that you've got to open yourself up to the fact that experience is going to teach you year after year, decade after decade. I remember I very badly wanted to write a newspaper column when I was only 21 years old, and I went to my editor and told him that, and he said, "You're a really good writer, but you haven't lived long enough to be qualified to live out loud."
writing forever easy
Iran should write us yet another letter saying thank you very much, because Iran, as I said many years ago, Iran is taking over Iraq, something they've wanted to do forever, but we Americans have made it so easy for them. Donald Trump
writing drawing remember
I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing. Claes Oldenburg
writing needs actors
All I've tried to do as an actor is follow the good writing. That's been my main drive. It's not always possible, so when you do come upon it, like when I came upon this, you realize pretty quickly this is something you need to be involved with. Cillian Murphy
writing people tabloids
If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don't, they won't. There's not much to write about me in the tabloids.
writing trying strings
Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best. Chuck Mangione
writing people listening
I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.
writing teeth nails
Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest. Alfred Doblin
writing loss reality
It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the moment-to-moment reality of emotions. If this is true, literature's loss is science fiction's gain, for Out of Bounds, Judith Merril's collection of short stories, is a warm and colorful rendering of the minutiae of the future. Alfred Bester
writing giving wake-up
Give them pleasure - the same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare. Alfred Hitchcock
written
I have to confess that I don't read much of what is written about me. Alfonso Cuaron
writing people want
If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself. Andrew Garfield
writing disability fingers
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad. Andrew Greeley
writing work-out friendly
It helps, if you've directed, to be able to write a script that is director-friendly. You're really telling them [directors], "This is how it works on this show." It takes some of the guesswork out of it. Amy Sherman-Palladino
writing mind trying
I would recommend that any writer get off their ass at least once and just try it. Directing is a completely different set of muscles. It also affects your writing because, once you start directing, you tend to write your scripts with directing in mind.
writing people easy
This business [moviemaking] isn't easy. It's a hard business. You just keep plugging away until you figure it out. You write something you love and keep banging on people's heads until somebody lets you do it.
writing actors want
As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.
writing feet different
I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out. Amy Sedaris
writing self identity
I feel I've always been writing about self-identity. How do we become who we are? So I'm just writing from experience what's concerned me. Amy Tan
writing fiction lessons
I also thought of playing improvisational jazz and I did take lessons for a while. At first I tried to write fiction by making up things that were completely alien to my life.
writing ideas looks
You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'
writing thinking spirit
I AM A PERSON WHO THINKS ABOUT THE NATURE OF THE SPIRIT WHEN I WRITE. I THINK ABOUT WHAT CAN'T BE KNOWN AND ONLY IMAGINED. I OFTEN SENSE A SPIRIT OR FORCE OR MEANING BEYOND MYSELF. I LEAVE IT OPEN AS TO WHAT THE SPIRIT IS, BUT I CONTINUE TO MAKE GUESSES.
writing rewards fiction
In [writing] fiction, every sentence is its own reward.
writing simple ideas
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.