Quotes about writing
writing bathroom ifs
When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off. Stephen King
writing telepathy
What is writing? Writing is telepathy.
writing stories
When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.
writing details description
For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.
writing character thinking
I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so interested in it that I want to talk too much about the characters and that slows the story down. So I say, "Hey, people want to find out what's going to happen next, they don't want to listen to you spout off about this or that person." But I think even the bad guy deserves to tell his side of the story.
writing light paper
If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day.
writing thinking bullshit
I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.
writing get-better
The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.
writing men order
A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter despair. James, what’s wrong?' the friend asked. 'Is it the work?' Joyce indicated assent without even raising his head to look at his friend. Of course it was the work; isn’t it always? How many words did you get today?' the friend pursued. Joyce (still in despair, still sprawled facedown on his desk): 'Seven.' Seven? But James… that’s good, at least for you.' Yes,' Joyce said, finally looking up. 'I suppose it is… but I don’t know what order they go in!
writing people different
I had to introduce a lot of people into my writing environment which I thought at first I would find really difficult, but I actually found that I loved it. It meant that I was meeting different people; it meant that I was expressing myself in different ways. Ella Henderson
writing emotion certain
Words are impotent to describe certain emotions. Ella Maillart
writing decision doe
Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information. Scott Adams
writing thinking easy
If you think it's easy to write jokes about fried calamari, you've probably never tried.
writing america people
Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.
writing things-in-life people
Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed.
writing data doubt
Every credible scientist on earth says your products harm the environment. I recommend paying weasels to write articles casting doubt on the data. Then eat the wrong kind of foods and hope you die before the earth does.
writing want
I want to write music that will outlive me. Ray LaMontagne
writing order personality
I would like to do a lot more of it, I feel comfortable with it and basically it's all in the writing. I'm not a personality type actor, I need a good script in order to be funny, but it's definitely something that I like doing. Ray Liotta
writing eight two
If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist Ray Davies
writing ideas way
I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [...] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way.
writing romantic-love thinking
I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well. Rashida Jones
writing leaving trying
There've been times when I have existential conversations with myself, and I've thought about leaving and trying to apply my education better. But ultimately it doesn't really matter. Learning how to write, learning how to write papers and structure, that's been very helpful for writing.
writing doors rooms
The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work. Randy Wayne White
writing thinking trying
When you're writing, at least when I'm writing, I don't think about themes and I try not to sermonize with any particular message. Ransom Riggs
writing world
I had been writing since I was pretty small, and I've always been telling these stories about doors and finding other worlds within our own.
writing retrospect
I really tend to write in retrospect. Randy Houser
writing artist play
I love Darius Rucker. He's a true artist, a great songwriter who can play his instrument, sing and write about his life.
writing play accomplishment
I'm a songwriter; that's where it starts. I love writing with someone that shares that same feeling of accomplishment. I'll play music for my fans as long as they'll listen, but I fancy myself as a writer first.
writing guitar remember
I started playing guitar before I can really remember, and I started writing really early, too.
writing rights people
The following [addition to the Bill of Rights] would have pleased me: The people shall not be deprived or abridged of their right to speak, to write, or otherwise to publish anything but false facts affecting injuriously the life, liberty or reputation of others, or affecting the peace of the [United States] with foreign nations. Thomas Jefferson
writing letters please
Do not write me studied letters but ramble as you please.
writing hands convenience
Take painsto write a neat round, plain hand, and you will find it a great convenience through life to write a small and compact hand as well as a fair and legible one.
writing imagination style
I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent.