Quotes about writing
writing growing horns
So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head. Ralph Waldo Emerson
writing lines reader
Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.
writing grace grace-of-god
All writing comes by the grace of God.
writing character men
The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
writing thinking long
I think ultimately it's just time management. You're just doing a lot more stuff. You're doing the same stuff, you're writing and you're producing, but it just comes with a lot of other things. A lot of long term thinking and plotting things out for the future, bringing elements together. I have a lot of support. Scott M. Gimple
writing keyboards losing
It is horrible to sit in front of the keyboard and write those scenes because you're losing too. You lose somebody you enjoy working with.
writing thinking hands
I don't know necessarily that I would produce under my own company right now. Producing is not something that I'm thinking about. Directing is something that I will be doing very shortly, trying to figure out what to get my hands on. And I can't imagine writing a script and wanting to direct it and not having a producing credit, because I would want to have a big chunk of power on that end, if I wrote something. Scarlett Johansson
writing opportunity talking
You have Cameron Crowe write an incredible monologue for you just based on the things that you're talking about. It just became this opportunity that was too exciting a process to pass up.
writing hands trying
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. Shelby Foote
writing want study
If you want to study writing, read Dickens
writing interesting used
I used to write sonnets and various things, and moved from there into writing prose, which, incidentally, is a lot more interesting than poetry, including the rhythms of prose.
writing today ifs
I wasn't encouraged to write just stand there and sing and I never thought I was a writer. I always figured if I couldn't write something as good as "He Stopped Loving Her Today," then what's the point? Shelby Lynne
writing knows
I write about what I know.
writing thinking trying
Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that. Pearl S. Buck
writing years months
Never, if you can possibly help it, write a novel. It is, in the first place, a thoroughly unsocial act. It makes one obnoxious to one's family and to one's friends. One sits about for many weeks, months, even years, in the worst cases, in a state of stupefaction.
writing scripts deals
Let's make movies, not deals. Let's write movies, not scripts. Paula Wagner
writing simple one-sentence
If I can write one sentence, simple and true every day, I'll be satisfied. Paula McLain
writing cutting talking
When I sat down to write I just felt like a geek writing about myself. And then it dawned on me, just because of the way I am, I can't stop talking, and part of the problem is that anything that gets said reminds me of something that happened to me one time, and invariably I cut people off and talk about myself. Paula Poundstone
writing play symphony
I shift between mediums very frequently. Instead of taking a break from writing, I just write in a different medium or in a different way or for a different purpose, so that I don't actually stop writing - I just go to something else. Like going from a big symphony to a piano piece is great and very refreshing, I find. And then going from that to a big concerto, and then having to go out and play. Philip Glass
writing play piano
My biggest problem about writing is whenever I write piano pieces, because I then have to learn to play them, which is sometimes not so easy.
writing people novel
As far as I am concerned, I write novels, and other people can do the labelling. Peter Temple
writing sentences
I write longer sentences than most of the others, maybe because I probably like Henry James more than they do. Peter Straub
writing ordinary-world lucky
Every writer must acknowledge and be able to handle the unalterable fact that he has, in effect, given himself a life sentence in solitary confinement. The ordinary world of work is closed to him - and that if he's lucky!
writing done details
I so admire great writing done quickly, with great detail. Peter King
writing player years
I've been accused over the years of being close to players, but if something needs to be written, I've tried my best to write it and write it in a way that is fair to whoever I'm writing about and is fair to all of my readers.
writing choices stories
God writes the story of our lives with the pen strokes of our own free choices. Peter Kreeft
writing years issues
While I am not a scientist, and write primarily on economics, tax policy and budget issues, I have been fascinated over the years by Heartland's work on climate change. Peter Ferrara
writing acting want
I want to die in the saddle. I love writing, producing, acting, directing Peter Fonda
writing should-have ego
If I have enough ego to say I'm a writer, a director, a producer, and an actor, I should have the energy and the knowledge to write a scene for this great actor named Henry Fonda and direct him in it and have it work.
writing thinking listening
I try when I'm writing to fill my head and my ears with all sorts of stuff and then let it settle and filter through. At a certain point it seems like fruitless activity because you're taking a lot of time and not seeming to get anything. And then, slowly, you realize you've actually digested elements and that your thinking is being freed up and the way you build up compositions is changed as a result of what you've been listening to. Peter Gabriel
writing said novel
I wanted to write a novel. At 12 I knew, I am a writer. I said it to nobody. Peter Bichsel
writing language
Writers let themselves be enticed by the language.
writing thinking biographies
On the whole, I think you should write biographies of those you admire and respect, and novels about human beings who you think are sadly mistaken. Penelope Fitzgerald