Quotes about writing
writing editors criticism
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all. Mark Twain
writing hands looks
Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.
writing confusing easy
Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
writing light ideas
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
writing editors crafts
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
writing law done
Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do. Mary Schapiro
writing thinking agency
The SEC got more than 100 rules to write under Dodd-Frank, the lion's share of all the agencies. And we've moved, I think, with a tremendous sense of urgency. But it takes a long time to write rules and get them approved by a five-member commission.
writing self giving
Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine the kinds of stories we tell, and the stories we tell determine the kind of history we make and remake. Mary Robinson
writing survivor boat
In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity. Mary Ritter Beard
writing australia doe
I very much was inspired by Bill Bryson. He does cover science, but more often, it's a mixture of science and travel, and whatever he happens to be writing about - Shakespeare, Australia, the United Kingdom, or when he covers science in 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything' - he has an incredible ability to be both entertaining and enlightening. Mary Roach
writing challenges easy
The writing is always the easy part, provided I can get the good material. It's the getting of the good material that's a challenge.
writing careers may
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab. Mary Roberts Rinehart
writing certain harder
Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
writing perfect people
it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.
writing house want
I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it? Mary Boykin Chesnut
writing heart thinking
I don't think I ever worry too much about what our target audience is, what we should be releasing. I just write naturally and organically and try to write from the heart. Martin Gore
writing flow
I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.
writing soul
Anything that I write comes from the soul.
writing numbers would-be
If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even though there would be no one around to write or talk about them. Huge prime numbers would continue to be prime, even if no one had proved them prime. Martin Gardner
writing important actors
You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves around their part so "This is the important part because this is the part where..." . Grant Heslov
writing thinking stories
Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.
writing dark horror-stories
I thought I could capture the stories of the city on paper. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city. Horror stories you see. I tell you I didn't have to look far for material. Everywhere I looked, there were stories hidden there in the dark corners. . . . I wrote and still there were more. . . . No one would publish them. 'Too horrible,' they said. 'Sick mind,' they said. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city but the horror is too big and it goes on forever. Grant Morrison
writing men trying
A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly. Georg C. Lichtenberg
writing men worry
The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.
writing intelligent people
Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.
writing thinking world
What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed...
writing knows
To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.
writing sunshine weather
There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
writing ideas trying
Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.
writing lays written
Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before.
writing successful way
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. Gene Fowler
writing white safety
Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write -Tough and Competent- on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control. Gene Kranz
writing
I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer. Gary Jennings