Quotes about writing
writing impact connections
For me, speaking to anyone - on a stage, in an elevator - I am looking for impact and connection. The same goes for writing. Henry Rollins
writing dull aging
Everything can be learned, including, to a very large extent, to be what you are not. You can learn to be pretty if you are plain, charming if you are dull, thin if you are fat, youthful if you are aging, how to write though you are inarticulate, how to make money though you are not good with figures. Henry Anatole Grunwald
writing ideas despair
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down. Hector Berlioz
writing long needs
Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short. Henry David Thoreau
writing heat great-writing
Write while the heat is in you.
writing thinking mind
When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it.
writing achievement done
If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.
writing use-it-or-lose-it legs
Writing is the only profession where nobody considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. Money is like an arm or a leg; use it or lose it. Henry Ford
writing airplane
I write a lot on airplanes actually because it's completely isolating; there's no one to talk to, there's nothing to do. Mandy Moore
writing italian years
I came out here to do the acting, and then after a year of auditions and not getting anything, I met these Italian guys and they asked me to write lyrics for them. Then they said, "Why don't you just front the band?" I said, "Well, maybe because I can't sing. I've never sang before in my life." Malin Akerman
writing thinking people
Clear writing is universal. People talk about writing down to an audience or writing up to an audience; I think that's nonsense. If you write in a way that is clear, transparent, and elegant, it will reach everyone. Malcolm Gladwell
writing men tables
A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour. Mahatma Gandhi
writing answers vehement
Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action.
writing men idols
The universal object and idol of men of letters is reputation. John Adams
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.
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 dna scientist
Time for the FUTURE!! We will see young scientists in the future writing D++ (DNA Code). Eric Lander
writing python years
Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in a year since leaving Cambridge. The first show sold out in 43 seconds and we ended up performing ten in total. We had no idea there would be such demand. Eric Idle
writing television evening
You could write a joke in the pub at lunchtime and watch it performed on television that evening.
writing unique thinking
There's no gap between the writer and the performer, which is what I think makes [Monty] Python unique. Five or six people who write Python and five or six who act it. That's what makes it unique.
writing comedy performing
When we graduated [ from Cambridge], we were grabbed right into television. I was grabbed straight into the practice of writing comedy. It was all writing and performing. You wrote something in order for you to perform it.
writing self hands
The next step will be for the colonists on Mars to throw off the hand of the United States. There will be this wonderful historical irony. When the people on Mars write a declaration of independence saying, 'We hold these truths to be self-evident...', the US will be rather pissed off
writing thinking target-audience
I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.
writing smell sweat
Nothing comes easily. My work smells of sweat. Eric Hoffer
writing obscurity pieces
How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties, and yet at the same time urbane and tolerant. It is a vice of the scientific method when applied to human affairs that it fosters hemming and hawing and a scrupulousness that easily degenerates into obscurity and meaninglessness.
writing lunch waiting
My writing is done in railroad yards while waiting for a freight, in the fields while waiting for a truck, and at noon after lunch. Towns are too distracting.
writing ideas sickness
Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas .
writing play acting
I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing. Eric Bogosian
writing past people
I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me.
writing thinking people
I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally.