Quotes about writing
writing next ifs
If I did anything 'next,' I would do writing. Ellen Muth
writing order land
I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is problematic because in production, you have to make the language lift off the page. But a good actor can turn it into human speech. I err sometimes toward having such a compound of images that if an actor lands heavily on each one, you never pull through to a larger idea. That's a problem for the audience. But I come to playwriting from the visual world - I used to be a painter. I also really love novels and that use of language. But it's tricky to ask that of the theatre. Ellen McLaughlin
writing care columns
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care. Ellen Goodman
writing people movement
People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.
writing thinking firsts
Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.
writing add few-words
I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract. I work and fiddle and keep working and fiddling, and I only stop at the deadline.
writing imagination vivid
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember. Ellen Glasgow
writing painful found
I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.
writing self independence
I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.
writing light ideas
In these letters which I write, in the testimonies I bear, I am presenting to you that which the Lord has presented to me. I do not write one article in the paper expressing merely my own ideas. They are what God has opened before me in vision--the precious rays of light shining from the throne. Ellen G. White
writing bridges simplicity
Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code. Eric S. Raymond
writing reuse knows
Good programmers know what to write. Great ones know what to rewrite (and reuse)
writing thinking people
So for everything I do, I'm very clear about what I'm doing, and I tell people what it's about. They get a sense of what I'm thinking. I don't let people think I'm going to write something in praise in the meatpacking industry, and then they read it and it's actually attacking the meatpacking industry. Eric Schlosser
writing views trying
Point of view is present in anything I write, but I really try to let the subject and facts speak for themselves.
writing loss thinking
Years ago when I got stuck, I'd start twirling my hair. That's not possible anymore. I can't prove the relationship between writing and hair loss, but I think I pulled out a fair amount trying to work on certain sentences.
writing wish ifs
If you wish to write, write. Epictetus
writing wish needs
If you can make music with someone you don't need words. If you wish to be a writer, write.
writing would-be reader
If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write.
writing attractive-things attractive
One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead. Joseph Barbera
writing years goal
You should look ahead now and decide what you want to do with your lives. Fix clearly in your mind what you want to be one year from now, five years, ten years, and beyond. Write your goals and review them regularly. Keep them before you constantly, record your progress, and revise them as circumstances dictate. Joseph B. Wirthlin
writing men ordinary
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. Joseph Addison
writing ambitious literature
Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
writing people excellence
To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
writing two giving
Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted.
writing people world
The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.
writing lapses genius
The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.
writing convenience
Each one writes history according to his convenience. Jose Rizal
writing feet four
Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet. Jose Saramago
writing men wisest-man
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
writing past men
Every novel is like this, desperation, a frustrated attempt to save something of the past. Except that it still has not been established whether it is the novel that prevents man from forgetting himself or the impossibility of forgetfulness that makes him write novels.
writing trying
I write to try to understand, and because I have nothing better to do.
writing example novel
When I am occupied with a work that requires continuity - a novel, for example - I write every day.
writing secret ifs
I do not just write, I write what I am. If there is a secret, perhaps that is it.