Quotes about writ
writing important about-yourself
The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself. Bernard Malamud
writing ifs
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live. Bernard Malamud
writing ideas reform
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. Bernard Malamud
writing who-you-are
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are. Bernard Malamud
writing teach uncertainty
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty. Bernard Malamud
writing revision pleasure
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. Bernard Malamud
writing able feels
I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. Bill Withers
writing mirrors looks
I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you. Bill Withers
writing simple might
My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem. Bill Viola
writing editing differences
A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference. Bill Walsh
writing outstanding headlines
Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives. Bill Walsh
writing drawing attention
The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each. Bill Watterson
writing reflection way
I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me. Bill Watterson
writing practice ideas
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog! Bill Watterson
writing two balance
Each kind of story has its own problems in writing, but my main concern really is to keep the reader on his toes, or to keep the strip unpredictable. I try to achieve some sort of balance between the two that keeps the reader wondering what's going to happen next and be surprised. Bill Watterson
writing thinking ideas
I enjoy the drawing more than the writing, so I try to think of ideas that will allow me to develop the visual side of the strip as fully as possible. Bill Watterson
writing firsts temples
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Bill Vaughan
writing guessing want
If you ever want to get the facts straight about me or the Batman, please write to the original source, myself, for the truth, instead of second guessing. Bob Kane
writing draws
I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time. Bob Kane
writing singers singer-songwriters
As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels. Bjork
writing age care
I'm curious about writing in the age of online publishing. Because nobody cares about good writing online. Biz Stone
writing thinking people
I think that's a really important role that people sometimes forget about, especially with all these newspaper shutting down and having trouble, where are all these stories going to go? I think you have something really great with all those stories waiting to be told, but I just don't know how it shapes up exactly. I don't think there are going to be a lot of newspaper reporters sitting around not writing. Biz Stone
writing able software
I was writing and developing software for alumnae to be able to connect and communicate. Biz Stone
writing mean ideas
I got an idea: people like news why don't we write the news down on a piece of paper, and we'll gas them up and drive them to everyone's house. I mean, if you were going to say that now, it doesn't sound like a great idea, because there are other ways you can distribute the news. Biz Stone
writing play feelings
I can write the stuff and play it myself and have something in my head, but the best feeling is when somebody else plays it and they're hearing something other than what I'm hearing. Bill Frisell
writing thinking mind
Learning to write programs stretches your mind, and helps you think better, creates a way of thinking about things that I think is helpful in all domains. Bill Gates
writing thinking should-have
In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got. Betty Smith
writing long firsts
It doesn't take long to write things of which you know nothing. When you write of actual things, it takes longer, because you have to live them first. Betty Smith
writing simple ideas
I didn't even write the lyrics down. I got in the booth, I put down a little guitar riff and the idea I had was it was going to be really simple, I just want it to be all about the lyrics and I just literally sang the lyrics. Benji Madden
writing skills people
The most important people is to pick people who like to write software and who are good at... good developers like working with each other. And they... they reinforce each other's skills. Bill Gates
writing thinking trying
When you program, you want to think you're writing the best possible program for the... for the task you're trying to solve. Bill Gates
writing different schedules
Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in terms of overbooking and fares, and different airlines communicating with each or schedule changes, it's immensely complex. And so you can't write a program that's any simpler than that full specification. Bill Gates
writing people reviews
You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code. Bill Gates