Quotes about writing
writing care chance
Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing. Jerry Spinelli
writing criticism online
In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future. Jerry Saltz
writing artist years
The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines. Jerry Saltz
writing editors magazines
I wrote an article on a new Porsche for 'Automobile Magazine.' I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I'm more proud of that than anything. Jerry Seinfeld
writing credit likes
The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like. Jerome Kern
writing helping
All experience helps when you write. Jerome Lawrence
writing soul mind
The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written. Jerome Lawrence
writing thinking passionate
I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing. Jerome Lawrence
writing years keys
Writing is a key differentiator. I've used it for 14 years. Writing will not just lead to differentiation. Writing is the credibility you need to create buyer confidence Jeffrey Gitomer
writing thinking skills
Improve writing skills: 1. Keep paragraphs short. 2. Use bold and CAPS to make points. 3. Start with a question or short statement. 4. Give me meat in the middle. All meat. 5. Make me smile, think, or act at the end. Jeffrey Gitomer
writing pages six
I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least. Jeffrey Eugenides
writing long scratches
No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch. Jeffrey Eugenides
writing way doe
If love were endless, if it were on tap, it wouldn't hit us the way it does. And we certainly wouldn't write about it. Jeffrey Eugenides
writing interesting long
I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough. And so, for a long time, that kept me from writing about it. But once I began, I realized it was just as interesting as anywhere else. Jeffrey Eugenides
writing character thinking
I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history. Jeffrey Eugenides
writing gaining-weight spinsters
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight. Jeffrey Eugenides
writing heart winning
The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching. Jeffrey Eugenides
writing want stuff
It's not easy to writing thank-you notes for the stuff you didn't want in the first place. Jeff Kinney
writing thinking childhood
I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place. Jeff Kinney
writing fate bored
Those whimpering Stateside young people will wake up on the Day of Judgment condemned to worse fates than these demon-fearing Indians, because, having a Bible, they were bored with it - while these never heard of such a thing as writing. Jim Elliot
writing blessing thinking
It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believers who know one-tenth as much as we do are doing one-hundred times more for God, with His blessing and our criticism. Oh if I could write it, preach it, say it, paint it, anything at all, if only God's power would become known among us. Jim Elliot
writing thinking doors
I wish, in some ways, I was the type of comedian who could do something blistering and topical, but I'm the guy who gets stuck in the revolving door and thinks I should write about that. Jim Gaffigan
writing guy trying
I definitely write about things that are universal, that everyone can identify with. You're supposed to write about things you're passionate about and I guess I am a foodie. I do love food and it's kind of like I'm an eccentric observationalist guy. To make it kind of universal, I try a lot of different things. When I first started writing this, I was like, 'No food.' Then, you know, it just always goes there. Jim Gaffigan
writing thinking decision
I don't think comedians make an active decision to be a certain "persona." Comedians write the way they're going to write. Jim Gaffigan
writing creative comedian
For stand-up comedians that go onstage and get to write and perform and direct, and do all these things, the allure of a television show is still there but if it doesn't offer a level of creative fulfillment, it's oddly unappealing. Jim Gaffigan
writing done kind
I realized, in removing or rewriting these jokes, that often the jokes weren't done or that I was using, for me, the curse words as kind of a crutch. So then I just started writing. Jim Gaffigan
writing views comedian
Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces the most funny. Jim Gaffigan
writing giving inspire
Comedians kind of write what comes to them. You can give yourself little assignments, but it's what inspires you. Jim Gaffigan
writing cities bye
Whenever I'm out of town for at least a week, I feel like I should write a postcard or something, but you can be a genius, you try and write a postcard you come across like a moron anyway: 'This city's got big buildings. I like food. Bye.' Jim Gaffigan
writing people ego
I've got no ego; I just like to have thousands of people write to me and tell me how wonderful I am. Jim Beaver
writing ipads iphone
There may be 300,000 apps for the iPhone and iPad, but the only app you really need is the browser. You don't need an app for the web ... You don't need to go through some kind of SDK ... You can use your web tools ... And you can publish your apps to the BlackBerry without writing any native code. Jim Balsillie
writing stuff gone
I'd gone through the ups and downs and curveballs that life throws at you. I found writing to be very therapeutic and it helped me with a lot of the stuff I was going through. Jill Hennessy
writing important literature
There is nothing more important than writing well for the young, if literature is to have a continuance ... They will inherit the earth; and nothing that we value will endure in the world unless they can be persuaded to value it too. Jill Paton Walsh