Quotes about writing
writing hands making-a-difference
I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God Mother Teresa
writing thinking hands
I don't claim anything of the work. It is his work. I am like a little pencil in his hand. That is all. He does the thinking. He does the writing. The pencil has nothing to do with it.
writing thinking hands
I am a little pencil in God's hands. He does the thinking. He does the writing. He does everything and sometimes it is really hard because it is a broken pencil and He has to sharpen it a little more.
writing hands likes
I am nothing; I am but an instrument, a tiny pencil in the hands of the Lord with which He writes what he likes. However imperfect we are, he writes beautifully.
writing cutting hands
I am only a little pencil in the hand of our Lord. He may cut or sharpen the pencil. He may write or draw whatever and whenever he wants. If the writing or drawing is good, we do not honor the pencil or the material that is used, but rather the one who used it.
writing white ties
Writers collect stories of rituals: John Cheever putting on a jacket and tie to go down to the basement, where he kept a desk near the boiler room. Keats buttoning up his clean white shirt to write in, after work. Mona Simpson
writing exciting
I barely have time to watch stuff that I'm in, or my friends' stuff. The bar for writing has really elevated and it's really exciting, it's not just parts for 25-year-olds. Molly Shannon
writing write-your-own
If it's not happening, write your own thing!
writing painful process
The thought of writing was always pleasant, but the process was painful Monica Denise Brown
writing escaping boredom
Writing is a deeply immersive experience. When the words are flying, the house could be burgled and I wouldn’t notice. I have a low boredom threshold and I like intensity – writing is a way of escaping the quotidian. Monica Ali
writing people perceive
I don't have control over how people choose to perceive me. The only thing I have control over is my writing. Molly Ringwald
writing thinking hard
I think we do live in a very specialized society, where once you think about somebody as one thing, it's hard to change that. But I do a lot of things. I act, I write, I sing.
writing long acting
I've been acting for so long it's more like - I won't say easy, exactly, but there's not the same angst with writing that comes about with acting. Writing - particularly when you're writing yourself, when it's you, when it's your life, you really can't hide.
writing law caves
When we were making the law, when we were writing the literature and the mathematics the grandfarthers of Blair and little Bush were scratching around in caves. Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
writing play creative
Anyone who has that weird volition to become an actor probably has a weird volition to do lots of other creative things - to write, to play music, to paint, to cook Minnie Driver
writing secret down-and
I do have a journal, that I write all my thoughts in every day. So that's kind of something. I also have a burn box where I write secrets down and put it in a box. Miranda Cosgrove
writing college class
Even with college, the reason I wanted to go so badly is because I wanted to major in film. I want to take screenwriting classes and learn more about behind the scenes stuff, because I love people like Steve Carell and Kristen Wiig who are able to write a lot of their own material and be so involved in everything they do.
writing sparks each-day
Write down each day what surprised you and how you surprised others. When something strikes a spark of interest, follow it. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
writing thinking talking
I think that, that it would be hard for New Hampshire to vote for somebody who was a fundamentalist minister, affable as he is. He does seem to actually want to write, for example, a prohibition against abortion into the Constitution , which Ronald Reagan, for all his talking about it, never tried to do one time. Mike Huckabee
writing tasks revision
If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing. Pearl S. Buck
writing ideas creating
My advice to would-be young authors is to read a lot, write a lot, and not worry about creating a finished product. Keeping a journal is not a bad idea either. Kevin Henkes
writing lunch hours
Every spare second I would write, somehow. On my lunch hour, too. Kevin J. Anderson
writing issues office
For a feature in next month's issue of Prog magazine, the photographer spent many hours setting up a photo shoot of me with part of my music collection in my writing office. Since I do most of my writing outside in nature, we felt this shot was most representative.
writing literature firsts
We wanted to write the first prequels as a story that anyone could pick up.
writing years income
My total year's income from working as hard as I possibly could from writing went from like $30 one year to about $70 the next year. And it made me realize that maybe you couldn't really pay the rent that way.
writing wife promotion
My wife and I are involved in writing/publishing/promotion twenty-four/seven. It isn't a day job; it's life.
writing character stories
Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it. Kevin James
writing trying adequate
Every poem that I write is, in a sense, trying to find adequate words for this unspeakable word, around which my entire life turns. Kevin Hart
writing moguls produce
I wanna produce, write, and direct my own projects, and eventually fund them. I wanna be a mogul.
writing trying anxious
As soon as we try to write the simplest sentence about God, we find ourselves in anxious perplexities, but when we stop trying to write about God and talk with God, God is there and we can talk with God.
writing funny-things notes
I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.
writing two long
After finishing the first draft, I work for as long as it takes (for two or three weeks, most often) to rework that first draft on a computer. Usually that involves expansion: filling in and adding to, but trying not to lose the spontaneous, direct sound. I use that first draft as a touchstone to make sure everything else in that section has the same sound, the same tone and impression of spontaneity. Kent Haruf
writing style fundamentals
However, please allow me to say that the fundamental style of my writing has been to start from my personal matters and then to link it up with society, the state and the world. Kenzaburo Oe