Quotes about writing
writing use unnecessary
No stile of writing is so delightful as that which is all pith, which never omits a necessary word, nor uses an unnecessary one. Thomas Jefferson
writing rights government
In the constitution of Spain as proposed by the late Cortes, there was a principle entirely new to me:... that no person born after that day should ever acquire the rights of citizenship until he could read and write. It is impossible sufficiently to estimate the wisdom of this provision. Of all those which have been thought of for securing fidelity in the administration of the government, constant reliance to the principles of the constitution, and progressive amendments with the progressive advances of the human mind or changes in human affairs, it is the most effectual.
writing doors design
On the subject of the history of the American Revolution, you ask who shall write it? Who can write it? And who will ever be able to write it? Nobody, except merely its external facts... all its councils, designs and discussions having been conducted by Congress [behind] closed doors - and no members, as far as I know, having even made notes of them. These, which are the life and soul of history, must forever be unknown.
writing liberty civil-rights
The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.
writing garden tree
I never before knew the full value of trees. Under them I breakfast, dine, write, read and receive my company.
writing discovery process
Writing is an incessant process of discovery. Robert Hass
writing half hours
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.
writing poetry hell
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
writing stories someday
I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices. Rick Reilly
writing happy-endings
The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about. Tammy Wynette
writing men lifetime
I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it.
writing somewhere-else things-i-love
Im writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and Im very greedy, and I really enjoy it! Tanith Lee
writing feelings wish
I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
writing opinion comeback
If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.
writing scary stories
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?
writing people complexes
I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
writing way needs
I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there. Tana French
writing lucky feels
I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
writing weekend important
Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you. I was taught to write every day, but I know a writer (a bestseller at that!) who only writes on weekends. Tamora Pierce
writing thinking stories
I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
writing character animal
After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
writing pages matter
When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen. Taiye Selasi
writing heart mind
I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
writing play oxford
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
writing ideas people
The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.
writing parent different
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents. Tahar Ben Jelloun
writing world found
I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others.
writing views
I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.
writing air mtv
If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air. Tabitha Soren
writing space paddling
Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative. Tabitha King
writing cake whole
Writing is only the frosting on my cake. Im whole without it.
writing people important
Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start something else. Finish it before you start rewriting it. That's really important. It's to find out if you're going to be a writer or not, because that's one of the most important lessons. Most, maybe 90% of people, will start writing and never finish what they started. If you want to be a writer that's the hardest and most important lesson: Finish it. Then go back to fix it. Tad Williams
writing names noise
I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it. Sylvia Porter