Quotes about writing
writing office done
I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the fourth without it. Mordecai Richler
writing voice people
Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was a bit of a copycat writer and very derivative and tried to write a novel using their voices, really.... I keep it out of print.
writing frustration dying
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.
writing upset betrayed
If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.
writing
But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself? Milan Kundera
writing play territory
The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.
writing successful boys
When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.
writing ambition creative
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.
writing today patents
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today. Miguel de Icaza
writing great-love mines
Writing is a great love of mine. Micky Dolenz
writing trying speak
We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally. Margaret Wise Brown
writing first-time
I knew I didn't want to put anything down in writing about the first time that I had sex. I knew that I didn't want to do that. Mara Wilson
writing interesting something-interesting
The thing is, with writing, it's form or content. You need to write about something interesting or you need to write about it in an interesting way.
writing yawning want
Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is only a secondary state which is often superadded, but the want of which can have no prejudicial effect on it. Perhaps some of the greatest masterpieces were written while yawning. Marcel Proust
writing revolution obnoxious
You are a Virginian, and a Virginian ought to appear at the head of this business. I am obnoxious, suspected and unpopular; you are very much otherwise. And you can write ten times better than I can. John Adams
writing political
I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.
writing thinking people
People think I write fantasy, but I don't. Some things may be exaggerated or distorted, but they're realistic figures. . . . There's nothing incredible about it. Joe Orton
writing unique men
There must be something unique about man because otherwise, evidently, the ducks would be lecturing about Konrad Lorenz, and the rats would be writing papers about B. F. Skinner. Jacob Bronowski
writing science discovery
The most remarkable discovery made by scientists is science itself. The discovery must be compared in importance with the invention of cave-painting and of writing. Like these earlier human creations, science is an attempt to control our surroundings by entering into them and understanding them from inside. And like them, science has surely made a critical step in human development which cannot be reversed. We cannot conceive a future society without science.
writing voice people
When I write stuff and I help cast it, I turn away good people all the time. I may turn them down because this one's too tall and that one doesn't have a high enough voice or this one looks to old to match up with that one - there's a billion reasons not to hire somebody. Harvey Fierstein
writing acting shows
As soon as I started writing, other writers stopped wanting me acting in their shows - maybe they thought I was going to rewrite them.
writing unsaid great-power
The unsaid, for me, exerts great power... Louise Gluck
writing my-time
I spend most of my time writing. Louise Erdrich
writing people impossible
It's impossible to write about Native life without humor-that's how people maintain sanity.
writing way i-can
By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.
writing trying crude
It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.
writing hard-work thinking
Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much more than I do acting only because, well, partly because the scripts that are offered are junk. Gene Wilder
writing track laughing
I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it.
writing ego enough
Haec ego non multis (scribo), sed tibi: satis enim magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. I am writing this not to many, but to you: certainly we are a great enough audience for each other. Epicurus
writing soul paint
Be careful that you do not write or paint anything that is not your own, that you don't know in your own soul. Emily Carr
writing essence want
It's all the unwordable things one wants to write about, just as it's all the unformable things one wants to paint - essence.
writing feel-better feelings
Writing is a splendid sorter of... feelings, better even than paint.
writing soul stronger
There is a side of friendship that develops better and stronger by correspondence than contact.... The absence of the flesh in writing perhaps brings souls nearer.