Quotes about writ
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. Mark Cuban
writing thinking years
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think. Charles Kuralt
writing successful sheep
What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature. We now know that an adult mammalian cell can fire up all the dormant genetic instructions that shut down as it divides and specializes and ages, and thus can become a source of new life. You can outlaw technique; you cannot repeal biology. Writing after Wilmut's successful cloning of the sheep, Dolly, that research on the cloning of human beings cannot be suppressed. Charles Krauthammer
writing envy people
I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me. Charles Krauthammer
writing typewriters darkness
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text. Charles Krauthammer
writing thinking mysterious
The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious. Aimee Bender
writing feelings lovely
Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write. Aimee Bender
writing people kind
I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time. Aimee Bender
writing pages best-work
It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things... Aimee Bender
writing interviews warhol
Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work. Ai Weiwei
writing alive might
If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter. Ai Weiwei
writing political missing
Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point. Bob Woodward
writing men years
I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album. Bob Newhart
writing miracle planning
Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder Where there is a miracle- there is a God! Bliss Carman
writing
I just like to write and then perform. Bo Burnham
writing thinking ideas
When things [writing] are over, I always think, 'well, I'm never going to do anything again because I have no ideas so I'm going to go be a farmer'. Or else ideas will come and and if not then I become a farmer. Hopefully won't happen. Bo Burnham
writing want realizing
Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously. Billy Gardell
writing hymns singing
Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of Christ in Hicksville. Billy Joel
writing goal stuff
I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal. Billy Joel
writing bye tonight
If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write. Billy Joel
writing blood hot
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood. Billy Joel
writing issues mind
I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active. Billy Joel
writing reason wanted
That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor. Bill Kurtis
writing long-ago editors
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days. Bill Joy
writing editors satisfaction
Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love. Bill Keller
writing enjoy fourth
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all. Beverly Cleary
writing yellow pads
I write in longhand on yellow legal pads. Beverly Cleary
writing successful keys
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible. Beverly Cleary
writing want today
The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you're going before you even start. That's a tough audience to surprise, and a tough audience to write for. It's much more competitive now, because the audience is so much more - I want to say 'sophisticated.' Betty White
writing play laughing
So much of the humor on new sitcoms plays to the lowest common denominator. Wit isn't nearly given as much attention as slipping on a banana peel. So much of the writing is so coarse, so obvious that it doesn't provide a shock, never mind a laugh. What makes something funny is alluding to it without laying it out explicitly. You let the audiences fill in the gaps and that's where the laughs come. Betty White
writing thinking sick
When I hear a great new record, especially when it's by someone that I respect and admire, then a part of me is like, Why didn't I think of that? Why didn't I write that record? It makes you sick, but in a way it can be a great thing. It makes you want to go back to the lab and start writing again. Maybe it will inspire you to try a little harder. Beyonce Knowles
writing editing loyal
As a loyal believer in the Auteur Theory I first felt editing was but the logical consequence of the way in which one shoots. But, what I learned is that it is actually another writing. Bernardo Bertolucci
writing men humanity
The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin Enger writes with durable grace about a man’s quest for redemption and the human capacity for forgiveness. Benjamin Percy