Quotes about writing
writing law occupation
Mbeki began to write a study of the workings of apartheid policy in the reserves - the areas set aside in law for African occupation - as early as 1959 and 1960. Ruth First
writing horror marlowe
Charlie Marlowe never wrote horror, but somehow horror was writing Charlie Marlowe. Ruta Sepetys
writing freedom-of-speech today
So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
writing views freedom-of-speech
Dissents speak to a future age. It's not simply to say, 'My colleagues are wrong and I would do it this way.' But the greatest dissents do become court opinions and gradually over time their views become the dominant view. So that's the dissenter's hope: that they are writing not for today but for tomorrow.
writing self giving
... oh, I long to prove myself by writing! The best seems to die in me when I give it up. It is the self I love--not this efficient, philanthropic self. Ruth Benedict
writing unique differences
Spike Lee made such a difference in terms of black filmmakers, the subtleties - those authors, those writers who write from love, and those who write from that lofty position of superiority.I felt he took aspects of the black experience in America and held it up for us to see. He tried to put it in perspective. He did put it in perspective in his unique way. Ruby Dee
writing life-and-death needs
I wanted to write as well as I possibly could to deal with life-and-death problems in contemporary society. And the form of Wilkie Collins and Graham Greene, of Hammett and Chandler, seemed to offer me all the rope I would ever need. Ross MacDonald
writing years letters
There are certain families whose members should all live in different towns - different states, if possible - and write each other letters once a year.
writing young-generation people
I have seen incredible bravery from very young guys, the young generation that people write off. Ross Kemp
writing men two
Action is greater than writing. A good man is a nobler object of contemplation than a great author. There are but two things worth living for: to do what is worthy of being written; and to write what is worthy of being read. Ross Perot
writing bangs ends
If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper. T. S. Eliot
writing important littles
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
writing agony trying
What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.
writing editors editing
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
writing poetry feelings
The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.
writing editing form
Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process. Sydney Pollack
writing technology people
When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people. Sylvia Earle
writing long people
People I know who succeed don't mind working. Those who are competent seem to like doing things well -- not stopping because they haven't accomplished what they wanted to on the first go-round. They're willing to do it twenty times, if necessary. There's an illusion that the good people can easily do something, and it's not necessarily true. They're just determined to do it right. I was impressed by hearing one of the women at Radcliffe talk about writing a poem, how many revisions a single poem sometimes has to go through -- fifty or sixty revisions to come out with a poem sixteen lines long.
writing heart simple
Norbert Blei is a writer the way people used to be troubadours and minstrels, celebrating what he has seen and heart and felt in a deceptively simple style reminiscent of the early Sherwood Anderson. . . . Like Anderson, he is a lover, and his affection invests his writing with a singular charm. Sydney J. Harris
writing devil you-only-live-once
If the devil could be persuaded to write a bible, he would title it, "You Only Live Once."
writing thinking honest
With writing, I think you have to be honest with yourself. I have a certain kind of writing; that is, I like to really embellish the human spirit. You have to write about something you have a feel for. Sylvester Stallone
writing flow sometimes
Sometimes I write with music on, and if I'm in a good flow, I don't even hear it.
writing acting ifs
If I'd succeeded right away at acting I wouldn't have sought out writing.
writing support-you editors
Nothing's harder than writing. There's no comparison. With directing, you can bounce a lot of ideas around. There's tremendous support - you've got editors and sound mixers. With writing, it's all you, and it's just crippling when people tear up your pages.
writing self who-i-am
I was on cruise control from '85 to '95, and it was my fault. There were a lot of self-inflicted wounds, when I was not doing any original material. I wasn't directing. I wasn't writing. That's not who I am.
writing years long
I'm astounded by people who take eighteen years to write something. That's how long it took that guy to write Madame Bovary, and was that ever on the best-seller list?
writing good-writing our-lives
Clichés are what good writing is all about. Because our lives are basically clichés.
writing interesting acting
Eventually writing became more interesting to me than acting.
writing swings intimidating
For some reason, the concept of writing with swing chords was intimidating. Suzy Bogguss
writing piano guitar
I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar. Suzi Quatro
writing singers kind
The Pleasure Seekers eventually turned into Cradle, when we started writing our own material. My younger sister Nancy was brought in as singer and I kind of stepped aside as main lead singer and concentrated on my instrument.
writing voice details
Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that theres a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life. Suzanne Vega
writing civilized
A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.