Quotes about writing
writing heart men
It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men. Richard Brinsley Sheridan
writing talking next
Writing about writing is a bit like talking about a conversation you are having; it tends to obscure desperation about where the next word is coming from. Renata Adler
writing sleep phones
That 'writers write' is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I find it is hardly ever true. Writers drink. Writers rant. Writers phone. Writers sleep. I have met very few writers who write at all.
writing different should
Nobody should be anything, but because I once had a different profession and I'm interested in writing, I took it upon me. Rem Koolhaas
writing interesting really-interesting
I have considered the directing, actually. Not so much the writing. That is not really interesting, but the directing is really interesting to me. Timothy Omundson
writing want mail
If you want to write an angry e-mail, write it but don't send it. It's based on my experience that whenever I have acted out in some manner, I have always regretted it. Tim Gunn
writing done pieces
What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was that a thing may in itself be the finest piece of writing one has ever done, and yet have absolutely no place in the manuscript one hopes to publish. Thomas Wolfe
writing mean thinking
I don't think screenplay writing is the same as writing - I mean, I think it's blueprinting. Robert Altman
writing sells
Finish what you start. Keep submitting until it sells. Robert A. Heinlein
writing order two
Heinlein's Rules for Writers Rule One: You Must Write Rule Two: Finish What Your Start Rule Three: You Must Refrain From Rewriting, Except to Editorial Order Rule Four: You Must Put Your Story on the Market Rule Five: You Must Keep it on the Market until it has Sold
writing stealing easier
I took up writing because I needed money. And I continued to write because it's safer than stealing and easier than working.
writing cutting important
The most important lesson in the writing trade is that any manuscript is improved if you cut away the fat.
writing way rooms
There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick.
writing people diaries
People who are busy and happy don't write diaries; they are too busy living.
writing done authority
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
writing hands ashamed
Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards.
writing cry ifs
How can you write if you can't cry? Ring Lardner
writing emotional thinking
Ringo: 'I do get emotional when I think back about those times. My make-up is emotional. I'm an emotional human being. I'm very sensitive and it took me till I was forty-eight to realize that was the problem! We were honest with each other and we were honest about the music. The music was positive. It was positive in love. They did write - we all wrote - about other things, but the basic Beatles message was Love. Ringo Starr
writing years would-be
I've been asked to write my autobiography and really they only want 8 years (1962-1970), and I keep saying it would be five volumes before I even got into the band!
writing thinking people
Programming is how we talk to the machines that are increasingly woven into our lives. If you aren't a programmer, you're like one of the unlettered people of the Middle Ages who were told what to think by the literate priesthood. We had a Renaissance when more people could read and write; we'll have another one when everyone programs. Tim O'Reilly
writing ideas might
Ilike ideas writers have that I might not have written. Writers are there for a reason... to write for me. Tim Roth
writing
The better the writing, the easier it gets.
writing easier harder
Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write. Tim O'Brien
writing important hard
It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.
writing hands trying
I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at a piece of nonfiction, a personal memoir of youth, but over the next several weeks, without intending it, the work began evolving into what has become 'Tomcat in Love.
writing land ukulele
Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically. Tift Merritt
writing responsibility years
The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years. Tillie Olsen
writing survival survivor
Every woman who writes is a survivor.
writing kind audience
Not to have an audience is a kind of death.
writing guy doe
I'm really glad that I'm not Anna because I don't want to be there again. I've been there. But when something does happen to me, whether it's that movie or whether it's actually happened to me, I feel that it's my duty to actually share that with all of you guys. I want to immediately go to my desk and start writing about it. Stevie Nicks
writing trying down-and
I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me. Steven Wright
writing people skins
We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s skin, so to speak. That’s why we read novels, and also why we write them–to experience more life. Steven Saylor
writing effort promise
Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labor of love bordering on madness.