Quotes about writ
writing waiting mind
You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel. James M. Cain
writing college typewriters
A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But novel-writing is something else. It has to be learned, but it can't be taught. This bunkum and stinkum of college creative writing courses! The academics don't know that the only thing you can do for someone who wants to write is to buy him a typewriter.
writing night ifs
If your writing doesn`t keep you up at night, it won`t keep anyone else up either".
writing wish reason
I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.
writing problem foreign-policy
Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.
writing age lawyer
I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer. James Lipton
writing elation may
I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable.
writing two miracle
They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.
writing biographies may
May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me. James M. Barrie
writing omnipotence feelings
The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence. James L. Brooks
writing people office
We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good. James Laughlin
writing come-up critics
In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively. Joe Pantoliano
writing bridges house
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage. John Galsworthy
writing thinking men
As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
writing thinking people
I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music. John Frusciante
writing guitar play
I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead
written-word written
The written word is everything. John Drinkwater
writing firsts six
I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't. John Dos Passos
writing happens
Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.
writing creative different
There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should be experimenting on their own. Every writer faces different problems which he must solve for himself.
writing thinking discovery
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some particularly apt and original way of putting it down on paper.
writing mind phrases
The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.
writing lust rage
To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love. John Donne
writing scary important
Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up. John Edgar Wideman
writing scary messages
Even more precious is his Edward writes, I'm always saying that it is not the spirits who are getting it wrong; it's more likely that I am misinterpreting their messages. John Edward
writing needs need-love
Writers don't need love; all they require is money. John Osborne
writing thinking people
I do not wish to criticize any system that can nourish people’s spirits, but I find that a lot of New Age writing cherry-picks the attractive bits from the ancient traditions and makes collages of them; it usually excises the ascetic dimension. In general it is not rigorously thought out, but is what I would call “soft” thinking. John O'Donohue
writing down-and comedy
There are a lot of great jokes you can sit down and write, but that's just a written joke, versus the comedy of the situation. Ideally, you're pulling as much comedy out of the situation as you can. John Mulaney
writing done matter
I remember writing standup jokes without having done sets. But as soon as I did my first set, it didn't matter. Everything I thought would work didn't work. And everything I was iffy on was funny.
writing yogurt milk
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt. John Mortimer
writing important remember
It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.
writing found bores
The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.
writing hands knowing
This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand. John Milton