Quotes about writing
writing mind pieces
A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind. Ellen Gilchrist
writing long mind
Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay in our minds. Their stories are part of us as long as we live and as long as we tell them or write them down.
writing good-friend intelligent
How often I have tried to tell writing students that the first thing a writer must do is love the reader and wish the reader well. The writer must trust the reader to be at least as intelligent as he is. Only in such well wishing and trust, only when the writer feels he is writing a letter to a good friend, only then will the magic happen.
writing league effort
I suppose that the first organized effort that might be considered something of civil rights was the Young Negroes' Cooperative League. Now, this offers certain contradictions at this point, perhaps, because it was stimulated by the writings of George Schayler who, at this point, is considered an arch-conservative, I understand. Ella Baker
writing one-day want
I want to write and direct a movie one day. Elle Fanning
writing mind study
It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
writing mean thinking
I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in fact, I think the profession rose quite honorably to the task. Novelists require a slower turnover, I mean, in time. Ian Mcewan
writing giving people
When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.
writing
I'm quite good at not writing.
writing perfect if-i-could
If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.
writing people fiction
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
writing stronger might
At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.
writing imagination fancy
Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?
writing years standards
We'll keep writing and if it hits our standards we'll go with it. We're not here to destroy anything. It's as precious to us as it is for someone who's followed us for years. Ian Brown
writing friendly sometimes
As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes. Ian Hamilton Finlay
writing muse given
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
writing precedent
Everything I write has a precedent in truth. Ian Fleming
writing looks asks
I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day.
writing numbers people
The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer. Hugh MacDiarmid
writing able
I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else. Hugh Leonard
writing skills ideas
Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a crucial point: in today's culture, finely honed literacy skills are simply not as important as they once were. Hugh Mackay
writing years track
Write down five things you love to do. Next, write down five things that you're really good at. Then just try to match them up! Revisit your list once a year to make sure you're on the right track. Hugh Jackman
writing simple play
I've found in composing that being simple and profound—having in-depthness in your music—is the most difficult thing to do. Anybody can write a whole lot of notes, which may or may not say something . . . But why make it complicated for the musicians to play? Why make it difficult for the listeners to hear? Horace Silver
writing style wells
The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest. Horace Greeley
writing doe ugly
I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women. Horace Walpole
writing ink cold
Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
writing laughing tragedy
Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.
writing wish study
If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets. Horace Mann
writing imagination actors
I don't like to be challenged in the way that often happens, where somebody writes something and then you, as an actor, are expected to really make it up in your imagination. That's not really an ideal way of working. Hugh Dancy
writing three answers
Julian Fellowes doesn't come to the set, except maybe once every six weeks, for whatever reason. He's not a producer, in that sense. But if you write him a one-line question, he'll write you a three-page answer. Hugh Bonneville
writing should-have done
The day it comes out, there's already things that you start to go, 'Oh, I should have done that a little differently.' You start to make a list in your head. I actually write things down -- what I'm going to do next time. Howie Day
writing experience needed
I needed time to stand back and go through a lot more experience in life. Then I have something to write about, joke or to animate. Howie Mandel
writing doe found
The meaning ... of a writer will be found not just in what he intends to say, or what he does literally say, but in the effect of his writing on living beings. Howard Zinn