Quotes about writing
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. Edsger Dijkstra
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
writing records may
But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.
writing trying may
I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
writing facts fidelity
In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
writing selective
I would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.
writing people challenges
Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
writing mean volcanoes
When I write "paradise" I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes - disease and death and the rotting of flesh.
writing people singing
It comes back to the same old question people are always asking me: 'When are you going to do a solo record?' Well, if I did, it would probably be similar to 'Baluchitherium,' meaning it would be Van Halen music - which I write anyway - but without singing. Eddie Van Halen
writing
I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
writing character mind
When you're working with a smaller budget I suppose one of the things that has to be in your mind when you are writing is that you have to keep the characters down to a minimum. Atom Egoyan
writing play voice
I started in theater and I wanted to write plays, but I never really found an original voice as a playwright.
writing hardest hard
Writing is hard - writing is the hardest. Aubrey Plaza
writing thinking steps
Writing lets you step back and think through a problem. Even the angriest rant forces the writer to achieve a degree of thoughtfulness. Atul Gawande
writing thinking trying
Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going.
writing mind speech
Speech is the representation of the mind, and writing is the representation of speech. Aristotle
writing details stories
As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail.
writing speak easy
In general, what is written must be easy to read and easy to speak; which is the same.
writing views castles
Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different. Ben Hecht
writing people intellectual
The movies are one of the bad habits that corrupted our century.Of their many sins, I offer as the worst their effect on the intellectual side of the nation. It is chiefly from that viewpoint I write of them - as an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming a cultured people.
writing knowing discipline
Fearlessness, absolutely. Discipline. You also need open-minded creativeness that lets everything in. You never want to lose a word or a phrase, yet every one should count. Always the best language possible. And, finally, knowing when to leave it alone. Stop when it's done. Ben Harper
writing sweat lines
Who casts to write a living line, must sweat. Ben Jonson
writing player answers
I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never plotted out a line. My answer hath been, would he had blotted a thousand.
writing exercise men
For a man to write well, there are required three necessaries: to read the best authors, observe the best speakers, and much exercise of his own style.
writing good-writing ready
Ready writing makes not good writing, but good writing brings on ready writing.
writing editors agents
If you're very serious about writing it's helpful to find an agent. It's becoming more and more competitive to have your manuscript even looked at by an editor. Many companies don't accept unsolicited manuscripts anymore, so they'll pay more attention to something that comes in through an agent. Joseph Joubert
writing ifs i-can
I write a lot too, so I would like to write or direct in the future if I can. Alexis Bledel
writing years challenges
I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically. Alexei Sayle
writing people belief
I wanted to write about how people's beliefs shift.
writing easy sitcom
If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.
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 want trouble
I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any. Dick Cheney