Quotes about writing
writing my-own ifs
I've got my own studio, so I sit in my studio writing and if I get a great take, that's the take. Kid Rock
writing people target
I use Mac. Not because it's more secure than everything else - because it is actually less secure than Windows - but I use it because it is still under the radar. People who write malicious code want the greatest return on their investment, so they target Windows systems. I still work with Windows in virtual machines. Kevin Mitnick
writing adventure challenges
I was addicted to hacking, more for the intellectual challenge, the curiosity, the seduction of adventure; not for stealing, or causing damage or writing computer viruses.
writing thinking ability
I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits. Kenny Hickey
writing creative kind
If I don't stay creative and if I don't stay in the studio and keep writing and recording, I get kind of depressed. I can't quite remember what I'm supposed to be doing with myself. Kenny Loggins
writing interesting people
Anyway...I find what you write interesting." "That's what people usually say when they disagree with it. Ken MacLeod
writing secret becoming
The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.
writing growing awareness
I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid. Ken Livingstone
writing acting use
I want to use things I learn about writing in my acting, and vice versa. Katie Chang
writing independent thinking
I really (became) very independent. I was start(ed) to write one-woman shows and mak(e) films and to me I think I really felt like my choice (was) more important than any kind of career goal. Margaret Cho
writing matter no-matter-what
I am always writing no matter what I am doing and no matter what it is for.
writing people rabbits
It's rather useless to write a gripping narrative with nothing in it but climate change because novels are always about people even if they purport to be about rabbits or robots. Margaret Atwood
writing perfect done
No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done. Mark Twain
writing cities seven
I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same.
writing plain-language ideas
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 style bricks
Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.
writing use information
It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.
writing boys men
I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.
writing blow brain
I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.
writing censorship print
We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.
writing benefits amusement
It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.
writing nonsense
It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense
writing exclamation-points laughing
One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.
writing pay offers
Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.
writing humble average
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.
writing plain-language adjectives
When you catch an adjective, kill it.
writing doubt adjectives
As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.
writing editors criticism
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
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 bird world
The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang. Leonardo da Vinci