Quotes about writing
writing odds stories
If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor. Edgar Rice Burroughs
writing careers attention
But, if there's any aspect of my career that needs attention, it's writing. Bobby McFerrin
writing chance performing
I do a lot of performing, but don't get a chance to go to the studio and write good music.
writing school ideas
Every Republican has a one-liner on ObamaCare. I've got detailed plans on energy independence, on school choice, on health care, on foreign policy. They all hire somebody to write their plans. They can borrow mine. I've actually got ideas. Enough with the slick talkers. Let's elect somebody that's done something. Bobby Jindal
writing opposites two
When confronted with two courses of action I jot down on a piece of paper all the arguments in favor of each one, then on the opposite side I write the arguments against each one. Then by weighing the arguments pro and con and cancelling them out, one against the other, I take the course indicated by what remains. Benjamin Franklin
writing politics fool
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but it is still nonsense.
writing ends please
Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one.
writing two choices
You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.
writing remembrance records
That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.
writing vulgar
Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.
writing odds hearing
I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it? Ben Casnocha
writing entrepreneur diaries
I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.
writing nervous
Generals who can write always make me nervous. Ben Bradlee
writing thinking acting
My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting. Ben Affleck
writing thinking eight
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of. Barbara Taylor Bradford
writing want pages
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end. Barbara Tuchman
writing essentials elements
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.
writing play wish
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.' Barbra Streisand
writing winning thinking
There's been no nepotism in my acting artistic life, but I think it's been pretty clear in my writing life. I knew what a pantoum was at age 11 - I knew form - therefore I would win the poetry contest. But I also realized that I would never be a great writer. Aya Cash
writing lines want
I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing. Avicii
writing hard-times writing-music
I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.
writing levels lasts
I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it. Axl Rose
writing grandmother iron
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious.... The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
writing people realizing
I don't know if people realize how much I tour and how much time I spend writing, but I really enjoy it. Avril Lavigne
writing home piano
Whenever I'm done with an album cycle, I still wanna write music. If I'm bored when I'm at home, which never happens, my first instinct is to go to the piano and bang something out.
writing thinking worry
I'm just coming out and I'm going to clearly be myself - I write what I feel, I never worry what others think.
writing who-i-am years
Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage. Arthur Godfrey
writing past men
As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past. Arthur Golden
writing simple men
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.
writing done facts
Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else. Arthur Conan Doyle
writing want copies
If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
writing thinking people
Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think. Arthur Brisbane
writing sadness goal
There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends. Arthur C. Clarke