Quotes about writing
writing cutting frustrated
So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything? Ted Nelson
writing design program
Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry
writing names long
It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right. Ted Turner
writing ideas sober
I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life. Ted Nugent
writing house literature
Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet. Theophile Gautier
writing fire caves
You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out. Theodore Sturgeon
writing important fiction
Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life.
writing ideas people
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
writing fiction-stories problem
A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened at all without its scientific content.
writing people expertise
You must write to the people's expertise.
writing dollars stories
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
writing firsts students
I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
writing stories done
There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.
writing people
There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
writing letters stories
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
writing men thinking
Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck rake, speedily becomes, not a help but one of the most potent forces for evil ... Theodore Roosevelt
writing men doe
The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.
writing people half
A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society. Theodore Kaczynski
writing should theodore
Theodore Dreiser Should ought to write nicer. Theodore Dreiser
writing next pits
Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.
writing unconquerable urges
If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing.
writing self long
Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And this corrodes even the knowledge of why it has become impossible to write poetry today. Absolute reification, which presupposed intellectual progress as one of its elements, is now preparing to absorb the mind entirely. Critical intelligence cannot be equal to this challenge as long as it confines itself to self-satisfied contemplation. Theodor Adorno
writing ends
In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.
writing men places-to-live
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
writing poetry auschwitz
Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.
writing advice doe
Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks that get in the way of writing, write first. (I really need to take my own advice here!) Terry McMillan
writing willing
Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
writing heart use
Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.
writing feels i-can
Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.
writing punctuation wonderful
Let grammar, punctuation, and spelling into your life! Even the most energetic and wonderful mess has to be turned into sentences. Terry Pratchett
writing bangs sides
I have to write because if I don't get something down then after a while I feel it's going to bang the side of my head off.
writing class ideas
In passing, we should here recognize the difficulties presented by the idea of 'fit' and 'unfit.' Who is to decide this question? The grosser, the more obvious, the undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind. But among the writings of the representative Eugenists [sic], one cannot ignore the distinct middle-class bias that prevails. Margaret Sanger
writing ease
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite. Margaret Mitchell