Quotes about writing
writing loss literature
I don't want to take up literature in a money-making spirit, or be very anxious about making large profits, but selling it at a loss is another thing altogether, and an amusement I cannot well afford. Lewis Carroll
writing average race
Here is a golden Rule.... Write legibly. The average temper of the human race would be perceptibly sweetened, if everybody obeyedthis Rule!
writing men animal
The proper definition of a man is an animal that writes letters.
writing thinking feminist
Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
writing people breaking-down
Writing, basically breaks down to relationships between people and that is what you write about. Leon Uris
writing important tools
English of course is your major tool, but it is not nearly so important as other aspects of writing for example you have to have some natural ability you can't buy it no one puts it there you're born with it
writing audience
I do not write for an audience
writing thinking agony
I enjoy writing, sometimes; I think that most writers will tell you about the agony of writing more than the joy of writing, but writing is what I was meant to do.
writing people events
You usually dont know what you are going to write about so you go to the places and talk to the people who were identified with the events.
writing
I essentially write for myself.
writing difficult position
So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.
writing insane lines
Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane.
writing trying generations
You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.
writing long persons
I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes. Joyce Maynard
writing people ugly
It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.
writing thinking helping
You write to help yourself think better, then think to help yourself write better. Joseph Williams
writing men air-power
Good God! This man should be writing dime novels. Josephus Daniels
writing pages type
I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages. Joseph Heller
writing would-be sacred
I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.
writing media people
The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.
writing done tempted
When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'
writing young-writers trouble
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
writing purpose divinity
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
writing names boredom
German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or through accomplished incomprehensibility, or through harmonious platitude, or through versatile boredom, or through constant striving after the absolute.
writing past order
In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it; the thought which is to be soberlyexpressed must already be entirely past and no longer be one's actual concern.
writing men together
Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels of an author not infrequently belong together and are to a certain degree only one novel.
writing people determined
It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so. Karl Popper
writing i-can ifs
If you can write it, I can be it. Karen Black
writing loss perfection
The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes. Julio Cortazar
writing want ifs
When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.
writing one-day together
I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together. Juliette Binoche
writing years two
I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them. Steven Spielberg
writing my-own
I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever. Reeve Carney