Quotes about writ
writing scripts harder
If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something. Bill Murray
writing blood years
Everything brought forward in favor of Socialism during the last hundred years, in thousands of writings and speeches, all the blood which has been spilt by the supporters of Socialism, cannot make socialism workable. Ludwig von Mises
writing issues liberty
This dilettantish inability to comprehend the essential issues of the conduct of production affairs is not only manifested in the writings of Marx and Engels. It permeates no less the contributions of contemporary pseudo-economics.
written ya
The only thing that makes a book YA is that it is about teenagers, and it is written in a very conventional, non-artsy, non-pretentious way. YA is not the place for the oblique or the cryptic. If it is in any way experimental in form, it is not YA.
written
I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK. Rainbow Rowell
writing thinking dying
I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. Petrarch
writing hands mind
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.
writing desire praying
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
writing night house
Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night. William Shakespeare
written
When something is written for you or handed to you, sometimes there's a very interesting dance as you discover what it is that's required. Mark Sheppard
written
We haven't written off the title. If they stumble, we will go after our chance.
writing paid
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible. Bertrand Russell
written
I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me. Heather Mills
writing yeoman fairness
I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service.
written
Nothing is written in stone, as a career is an unpredictable journey. Zlatan Ibrahimovic
writers
Unfortunately, there's still a lot of beginning writers who think you can just write your first draft and hand it in. Chevy Stevens
writing listening sitting
I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing. Joaquin Phoenix
writing littles madness
The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign. Joanne Harris
writing editing relax
I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.
writing laptops needs
I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.
writing broken-inside needs
You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life.
writing care want
If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.
writing influence crime
My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with. Jo Nesbo
writing teens novel
Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.
writing evil ambitious
I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.
writing ideas plot
Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.
writing trying stories
All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led.
writing other-cultures opposites
Thanks to the success of Henning Mankell and Peter Hoeg, there wasn't the same stigma attached to writing genre thrillers in Scandinavia as there was in many other cultures. Quite the opposite, in fact.
writing thinking fiction
They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.
writing hotel-lobby airports
For me, the best places to write are on planes, trains and at airports. Not hotel rooms but hotel lobbies. I'm really happy when I'm waiting for a plane and the message comes that it's three hours late. Great, I'll get to write!
writing thinking difficult
I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately. Jo Brand
writing perfect president
Being president is as difficult as writing the perfect poem. And being president is as effortless as writing the perfect poem. Always a Reckoning, my first collection of poetry, was described by Booklist as 'keenly evocative.' Jimmy Carter
writing mind taught
When we go to the Bible we should keep in mind that the basic principles of the Bible are taught by God, but written down by human beings deprived of modern day knowledge. So there is some fallibility in the writings of the Bible. But the basic principles are applicable to my life and I don't find any conflict among them.