Quotes about writing
writing firsts immortality
The first condition of immortality is death. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
writing thinking stupidity
Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.
writing lifetime easy
It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.
writing order wings
Some people drop their wings in order to grow a hump
writing exit entrances
The exit is usually where the entrance was.
writing fire imagination
Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.
writing men genius
A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.
writing advice ironic
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
writing genius talent
The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.
writing fighting thinking
Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote. Stanislaw Lem
writing media phones
The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. Social Media was writing letters, making phone calls, beating the bushes. Spike Lee
writing credit pay
Shaw...has a woman ever asked you to write a poem for her?" "Good God, no," Gideon replied with a snicker. "Shaws don't write poetry. They pay others to write it for them and then take the credit for it. Lisa Kleypas
writing passion important
I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.
writing character creating
Before I write the first page of a novel, I spend a long time creating detailed backgrounds for my characters. I imagine the experiences that have formed them, what makes them happy, angry, fearful, and what they yearn for.
writing suspense-novels people
All I've really ever done is write since I was 17, so I don't know anything about anything. For me to do a novel, I have to talk to people who know things. And what keeps me in suspense is that I am a crime aficionado. Lisa Gardner
writing thinking people
I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good or bad, it's always surprising because a whole human being is coming to that piece of writing. Lisa Edelstein
writing giving judging
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that characterizes modern writing - he will perceive its clear purpose of detaching the reader from the habits of thought and feeling that the larger culture imposes, of giving him a ground and a vantage point from which to judge and condemn, and perhaps revise, the culture that produces him. Lionel Trilling
writing political weapons
Writing was a political act and poetry was a cultural weapon. Linton Kwesi Johnson
writing historical-novels asking
Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission. Lion Feuchtwanger
writing add debate
I should add that it is open to debate whether what we call the writing of history these days is truly scientific.
writing
When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing. Linn Ullmann
writing way roles
Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another.
writing cutting people
These days, my subjects are murder and mayhem and other terrible things that happen to people - things that are even worse than cutting yourself shaving. And these are not the sorts of things you feel the need to experience before you write about them. Linwood Barclay
writing interesting people
An individual developer like me cares about writing the new code and making it as interesting and efficient as possible. But very few people want to do the testing. Linus Torvalds
writing different world
If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot of different places, just write a Unix operating system.
writing people program
Portability is for people who cannot write new programs
writing done different
The writing is all done, so it's all about verbalizing everything from point A to point B, and certainly there's a bit of politics involved, so it's a different thing. Lindsey Buckingham
writing singing want
I write a lot of lyrics and I'm involved in the producing process, because it's like, if I'm singing it, I want it to be something that I can relate to. Lindsay Lohan
writing thinking giving
I can give advice to anyone interested in writing in one word: Read! I think it's much more important to be a reader than to be a writer! Linda Sue Park
writing home half
I used to sit home with my computer and write. After the Newbery, I probably spend more than half my time on the road.
writing mad albums
He is not in the least arrogant. The last album was written in a room in Sussex. He was like a mad professor, spending all day writing and then coming out with brilliant tunes. Linda McCartney
writing whole-life written
I never thought I'd write, because I'd never written anything in my whole life. Linda Ronstadt
writing historical stories
I love writing Christmas stories, especially of the historical variety. Linda Lael Miller