Quotes about writ
writing able
I've always been able to survive by writing, though. John Milius
writing skills people
Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
writing pride fate
Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate. John Denham
writing years work-out
In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we never bothered to write down, we just used them. Then Linus Pauling came along to the laboratory, saw what we were doing and wrote out what we now call Pauling's Rules. We had all been using Pauling's Rules for about three or four years before Pauling told us what the rules were. John Desmond Bernal
writing language partners
Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner. John Dewey
writing practice imagination
...compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from executive 'doing.' Each of these activities is then assigned its own place in which it must abide. Those who write the anatomy of experience then suppose that these divisions inhere in the very constitution of human nature.
writing interesting different
Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems. John Carmack
writing character thinking
Nietzsche himself was a great moralist; his writings abound with value judgments about individuals, character types, modes of thinking, and national traits. It is as if he develops immoralist psychology in order to tame his own nature, to keep his own greatest vice in check. John Carroll
writing men thinking
Way back in the '70s, I was approached to talk about the story I'd write for a Spider-Man movie. They also talked to me about Batman. I had to think about it, but that was way, way back when. John Carpenter
writing play keyboards
I can play just about any keyboard but I can't read or write a note.
writing ruthless
One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be. John Berryman
writing want yeats
I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.
writing trying technique
You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.
writing people world
I wanted to write about looking at the world, so it's more about helping people, or persuading people, to see what is around us; both the marvellous and the terrible. John Berger
writing people political
In the modern world, in which thousands of people are dying every hour as a consequence of politics, no writing anywhere can begin to be credible unless it is informed by political awareness and principles. Writers who have neither product utopian trash.
writing trying stories
It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.
writing lazy computer
Much of my work has come from being lazy. I didn't like writing programs, and so, when I was working on the IBM 701 (an early computer), writing programs for computing missile trajectories, I started work on a programming system to make it easier to write programs. John Backus
writing something-new knows
Don't 'write what you know.' Make up something new! Joe Haldeman
writing happened
There's no such thing as writing about the future. The future hasn't happened yet.
writing imagination advice
The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.
writing roles want
I'd love to act more. I've had to turn down multiple movies because I was on tour, but it's encouraging to know that someday there might be the right role, the right timing. And I've been writing a lot of music, so hopefully very soon I'll have recorded a project of my own. I also want to get a boat and open a restaurant. Joe Jonas
writing night thinking
I began writing with a Michael Buble mentality. I think he's fantastic, and it's the perfect music for any date night, ever.
writing one-day stories
I remind myself that no one day of writing matters all that much. A story is built somewhat like a stalactite - one little drip of mud and grit at a time. Joe Hill
writing sweaters guy
I was so flat I used to put Xs on my chest and write: "You are here". I wore angora sweaters just so the guys would have something to pet. Joan Rivers
writing sentences happens
Just start the sentence...and see what happens. This is how we write. Jincy Willett
writing earth hell
Songwriting is Hell on Earth. If it isn't, then you're doing it wrong. Jimmy Webb
writing simple should-have
Even if chords are simple, they should rub. They should have dissonances in them. I've always used a lot of alternate bass lines, suspensions, widely spaced voicings. Dfferent textures to get very warm chords. Sometimes you're setting up strange chords by placing a chord in front of it that's going to set it off like a diamond in a gold band. It's not just finding interesting chords, it's how you sequence them, like stringing together pearls on a string. ... Interesting chords will compel interesting melodies. It's very hard to write a boring melody to an interesting chord sequence.
writing thinking people
Greatest misconception about We aren't democratic. Our readers edit the entries, but we're actually quite snobby. The core community appreciates when someone is knowledgeable, and thinks some people are idiots and shouldn't be writing. Jimmy Wales
writing bucks statistics
If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart. George A. Romero
writing belief turned-down
After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. George Ade
writing roots our-lives
Because until we write it down, we don't know what is actually at the root of our lives. George A. Sheehan
writing casts
When you cast somebody, you write to their strengths. Geoff Stults
writing challenges growth
Writing has been challenging at times but that's where all the growth is. I know I'm in the right place if it's difficult. Something a British writer said to me once was: "If the project doesn't make him wobble, he doesn't take it." You have to be uncomfortable to grow. Geoff Thompson