Quotes about writing
writing eagles burning
Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, “Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless — discuss. J. K. Rowling
writing novel wanted
I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels.
writing potters want
I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter.
writing goodness epitome
I loved writing Dumbledore and he is the epitome of goodness.
writing boys ideas
I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down and wondered, "What shall I write about next?". It just came, fully formed.
writing years focus
I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in mind. I have to continue telling the story the way I want to tell it.
writing thinking imagination
I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing about the occult." My wizarding world is a world of imagination. I think it is a moral world.
writing who-you-are
What you write becomes who you are… So make sure you love what you write!
writing mushrooms ruthless
Be ruthless about protecting writing days.
writing thinking kind
Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it.
writing brain cafes
Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain.
writing movement vehicle
There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
writing
I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write.
writing plot outlining
I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write.
writing want babysitter
I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
writing vocabulary giving
The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.
writing want audience
In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.
writing thinking ideas
I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them.
writing thinking average
The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write. H. G. Wells
writing stronger world
No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document.
writing passion editing
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.
writing littles life-is
Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.
writing way walks
I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.
writing thinking one-day
Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!
writing giving cows
Writing does for me what giving milk does for a cow. H. L. Mencken
writing men genius
The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.
writing order giving
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
writing men world
The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite capacity for forming complicated and unworkable rules.
writing newspapers controversy
Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.
writing awkward phrases
Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.
writing giving feelings
I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they are, have had only one purpose: to attain for H. L. Mencken that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
writing men critics
A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like.
writing eggs hens
Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently while an underprivileged farmer burglarizes her.