Quotes about writing
writing insane lines
Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane. Leon Uris
writing trying generations
You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.
writing long persons
I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes. Joyce Maynard
writing people ugly
It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.
writing thinking helping
You write to help yourself think better, then think to help yourself write better. Joseph Williams
writing men air-power
Good God! This man should be writing dime novels. Josephus Daniels
writing pages type
I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages. Joseph Heller
writing would-be sacred
I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.
writing media people
The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.
writing done tempted
When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'
writing young-writers trouble
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
writing purpose divinity
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
writing names boredom
German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or through accomplished incomprehensibility, or through harmonious platitude, or through versatile boredom, or through constant striving after the absolute.
writing past order
In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it; the thought which is to be soberlyexpressed must already be entirely past and no longer be one's actual concern.
writing men together
Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels of an author not infrequently belong together and are to a certain degree only one novel.
writing people determined
It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so. Karl Popper
writing i-can ifs
If you can write it, I can be it. Karen Black
writing loss perfection
The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes. Julio Cortazar
writing want ifs
When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.
writing one-day together
I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together. Juliette Binoche
writing years two
I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them. Steven Spielberg
writing my-own
I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever. Reeve Carney
writing want follow-your-passion
A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write. Regina Brett
writing order phones
If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.
writing two firsts
In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject. Raymond Aron
writing purpose literature
Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control. Robert Bringhurst
writing technology style
Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.
writing thinking civilization
If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and there is no reason to think that those alternatives are inferior.
writing thinking people
When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry gets in your mouth. If people hear you, it gets in their ears. If you think that way and write at the same time, then poetry gets written. But poetry exists in any case. The question is only: are you going to take part, and if so, how?
writing sound cinematography
Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds. Robert Bresson
writing shining ordinary
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
writing cowboy land
Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other lands, I can describe people and places from actual experience. And for someone with an imagination like me, I could see dinosaurs and lost civilizations in the jungle of Vietnam. Tom Johnson
writing order purple
Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to the early mass market magazine writers earning a half cent a word for their fiction. They had to use every adjective, verb and adverb in the English language to add word count to stories in order to feed and support families.