Quotes about writing
writing worry people
The ideal for me is to mix it up. When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre. Sandra Cisneros
writing criticism hazards
An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace. Samuel Johnson
writing worst rate
While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.
writing
By writing, you learn to write.
writing men might
Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired.
writing unexpected common
It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation.
writing abuse tragedy
You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.
writing blessing liberty
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.
writing practice mind
To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others
writing procrastination sisterhood
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
writing faults
Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.
writing poet labor
...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.
writing want ifs
If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!
writing different praise
..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.
writing suffering principles
I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
writing generations poet
[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.
writing suffering lovers
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
writing silence abuse
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
writing men political
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
writing learning dresses
Language is the dress of thought.
writing voice littles
My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover. Sam Tsui
writing people long
I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper. Sam Wyly
writing two wish
Two other things that we hear again and again from our founders, they wish they had done earlier, and that is... simply writing down how you do things and why you do things. Sam Altman
writing easier release
Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product.
writing thinking might
If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any. Sadie Jones
writing artistic draws
I like to stay artistic. So I always like to draw or write. Ryan Guzman
writing people want
I let people say and write what they want. Ruud van Nistelrooy
writing thinking littles
I like things that reach a little further and are a little more abstract, but I don't think that's what I do naturally well. How I write naturally is probably what's furthest from me, and the most removed from what I understand. Ryan Adams
writing thinking play
It sounds like I'm channeling or something, and I don't really fully understand what it is. I'll get a piece of paper and write down what I think is coming to me. And I'll play it once. Whether it's being recorded or not, I can then usually remember it for a sometimes shocking amount of time.
writing ideas phrases
There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work.
writing passion wanted
Writing is a passion I have never understood, yet a storyteller is all I have ever wanted to be. Ruth Park
writing character prejudice
When I start writing novels, I go into them with a spirit of inquiry, rather than to substantiate prejudices I had in the beginning. If you don't do that, you can't write good characters. Ruth Ozeki
writing up-early irritation
When Im writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.