Quotes about writ
writing heart passion
The mission of the playwright ... is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play. Robert Anderson
writing whales stories
You can't write a novel all at once, any more than you can swallow a whale in one gulp. You do have to break it up into smaller chunks. But those smaller chunks aren't good old familiar short stories. Novels aren't built out of short stories. They are built out of scenes. Orson Scott Card
writing past ideas
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day.
writing concentration listening-to-music
I listen to music constantly while writing.
writing house acting
There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane.
writing dark age
A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age. Ram Dass
written
Up to now, we'd get a written notification ... Now it will be expedited. Bram Cohen
writing thinking wonderful
I don't think academic writing ever was wonderful. However, science used to be much less specialized. Stephen Jay Gould
writing needs decent
Any decent writer writes because there's some deep internal need to keep learning.
writing ethical-questions issues
It is so hard for an evolutionary biologist to write about extinction caused by human stupidity. [...] Let me then float an unconventional plea, the inverse of the usual argument. [...] The extinction of Partula is unfair to Partula . That is the conventional argument, and I do not challenge its primacy. But we need a humanistic ecology as well, both for the practical reason that people will always touch people more than snails do or can, and for the moral reason that humans are legitimately the measure of all ethical questions for these are our issues, not nature's.
written
Why did you want an addendum to what you had already written and signed?
writers
Too many writers of fiction don't give the reader enough credit. Jonathan Evison
writing poetry matter
Well, write poetry, for God's sake, it's the only thing that matters. e. e. cummings
writers
Everything can be grist for the muse. Sometimes, writers draw on personal experiences. 'Ghoul' was just that. Brian Keene
writing ends
Start [writing] as close to the end as possible. Kurt Vonnegut
writing want wells
What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won't know it.
writing thinking typewriters
Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide whether we can afford to write down this or that. I myself once staged the end of the world on two pieces of paper- at a cost of ...less than a penny, including wear and tear on my typewriter ribbon and the seat of my pants. 'Think of that.
writing citizenship good-citizenship
I consider writing an act of good citizenship.
writing people stupidity
This is what i find most encouraging about the writing trades: they allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to edit themselves into something like intelligence. They also allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.
writing opportunity palm-sunday
I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash.
writing symphony waiting
I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.
writing eye purpose
There was a message written in pencil on the tiles by the roller towel. This was it: What is the purpose of life? Trout plundered his pockets for a pen or pencil. He had an answer to the question. But he had nothing to write with, not even a burnt match. So he left the question unanswered, but here is what he would have written, if he had found anything to write with: To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool.
writing depressive
I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.
writing dancer competition
Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too....
writing people dumb
I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.
writing matter way
Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns
writing fiction each-day
The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.
writing style
You develop a style from writing a lot.
writing thinking our-society
It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all our thinking for us, that we are writing myths and our myths are believed, and that old myths are believed until someone writes a new one.
writing trade sane
This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.
writing thinking people
Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that the only reason they find writing hard: they don't know or care about anything?
writing alive sacred
Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
writing thinking wells
If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.