Quotes about writ
writing fire playing-with-fire
The only pictures worth making are the ones that are playing with fire. Billy Wilder
writing cameras twenties
Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
writing may climate
The ability to write compelling emails may be the single most useful talent an organizer can possess. Bill McKibben
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.
writing bills firsts
Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.
writing world language
We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it. P. D. James
writing matter ink
Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. William Shakespeare
writing hands fortune
Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest terms?
writing people fiction
The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of meetings between people. It is profoundly intimate in reaching into the psyche of another, at the same time as being devoid of social characteristics, cultural characteristics, economic characteristics. Will Self
writing narcissism excited
Writing a memoir has a particularly excited sense of narcissism. Bill Ayers
writing lectures silent
I haven't been silent. I teach, I lecture at universities, I write, I'm not silent.
writing authority
I write because I have authority from life to do so. Bessie Head
writing screens
I love writing for the screen. Beth Henley
writing mind singing
For the most part I write very stream of consciousness. I basically need to be recording an entire writing session because it's almost like I black out and just start singing whatever is on my mind and forget it as soon as I stop. Beth Moore
writing play people
When I first started writing, a friend said I should be careful because I'm letting people know how to reach right in and play with my workings. And they do! Beth Orton
writing taught scratches
I've also been writing with my guitarist, Ted Barnes, and he's amazing. Writing with him has taught me a lot about my own writing process, in the sense that it's incredably personal to write with someone else from scratch.
writing
You don't have to say everything to say something.
writing sitting down-and
You write by sitting down and writing. There's no particular time or place—you suit yourself, your nature. How one works, assuming he's disciplined, doesn't matter. Bernard Malamud