Quotes about writing
writing dust skeletons
What is important is the story. Because when we are all dust and teeth and kicked-up bits of skin - when we're dancing with our own skeletons - our words might be all that's left of us. Alexandra Fuller
writing giving people
We need to give out portrayal of ourselves. Every non-Indian writer writes about 1860 to 1890 pretty much, and there is no non-Indian writer that can write movies about contemporary Indians. Only Indians can. Indians are usually romanticized. Non-Indians are totally irrepsonsible with the appropriation of Indians, because any time tou have an Indian in a movie, it's political. They're not used as people, they're used as points. Chris Eyre
writing dust damnation
There is dust enough on some of your Bibles to write 'damnation' with your fingers. Charles Spurgeon
writing tears pockets
A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. Charles Peguy
writing eight ideas
Oh, I had an idea for a pilot of my own at the time, and then Carl sent me about eight scripts and simply I threw my idea out the window because the writing was just so good. Dick Van Dyke
writing sometimes enough
Sometimes you can write a great scene, but when you're actually in a situation and it doesn't work, you have to be flexible enough to make it work for you. Diane Kruger
writing analysis fiction
There's no end to the inventiveness of critics, I tell you. Because they can't write fiction, they put their impulse into their analysis of work. Dennis Potter
writing speech metaphor
The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?
writing use young
You just don't know writers. They'll use anything, anybody. They'll eat their young.
writing people design
At least for the people who send me mail about a new language that they're designing, the general advice is: do it to learn about how to write a compiler Dennis Ritchie
writing way language
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.
writing play voice
I found myself in network always trying to play catch up because once things get going there's no time to fix this and that. And also the writing, it was more inclined to be by committee in network which drowns out the purity and the voice of the show. Dennis Quaid
writing speak inappropriate
Every person who speaks or writes for the public will make an occasional faux pas, and sooner or later will write or say something inappropriate. Dennis Prager
writing thinking mirrors
If you want to know what you look like, look into a mirror. If you want to know how you think, you should write
writing thinking understanding
It's pretty easy to think of the idea of a story, and maybe even to write a scene or two, but understanding the ebb and flow of a narrative, where to leave the little clues your protagonist (and reader) need, while playing fair, takes a lot more skill and patience than you might think. Dennis Green
writing requirements way
One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements. Dennis Hastert
writing want humans
In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being. Denis Johnson
writing publish
Write the unpublishable.. .and then publish it.
writing starting-over interesting
If I had to write a rough draft, all the way through and then go back and start over, I probably would just stop writing. I wouldn't find that interesting. I would feel that I had committed so many things to the paper that I couldn't easily undo because one thing leads to the next, the interconnectedness, the sequences would make it very hard to change something that simply didn't work. Dean Koontz
writing analysis language
Grammar is the analysis of language. Edgar Allan Poe
writing creative intuition
Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes...
writing abandonment conceit
In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.
writing thoughtful reality
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
writing insightful stories
A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it.
writing thinking matter
It's difficult to beat making your living thinking and writing about subjects that matter to you. Eleanor Holmes Norton
writing thinking folks
Writers seldom write the things they think. They simply write the things they think other folks think they think. Elbert Hubbard
writing helping-others men
Every man who speaks out loud and clear is tinting the "Zeitgeist." Every man who expresses what he honestly thinks is true is changing the Spirit of the Times. Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone--thought is in the air, but its expression is necessary to create a tangible Spirit of the Times.
writing men views
There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this; the lovers, or the man and wife, who are not friends are but weakly joined together. One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well. Eleanor Roosevelt
writing want good-times
I want to study, to write to live and have a good time. Ehud Barak
writing order paper
Write a paper promising salvation, make it a structured something or a virtual something, or abstract, distributed or higher-order or applicative and you can almost be certain of having started a new cult. Edsger Dijkstra
writing discovery mind
If there is one 'scientific' discovery I am proud of, it is the discovery of the habit of writing without publication in mind.
writing annoyed betrayed
I would recognise myself in each of his translations and he would feel betrayed and annoyed whenever I didn't write something the way he would have. A part of me died with him, a part of him lives with me. Eduardo Galeano
writing police musical
Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.' Edward Abbey