Quotes about writing
writing thinking answers
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about. Arthur C. Clarke
writing play judging
Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one. Anton Chekhov
writing literature young
It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
writing artist two
Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.
writing paper should
A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.
writing play theatre
The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.
writing long mind
I let myself go at the beginning and write with an easy mind, but by the time I get to the middle I begin to grow timid and to fear my story will be too long. . .That is why the beginning of my stories is always very promising and looks as though I were starting on a novel, and the middle is huddled and timid, and the end is...like fireworks.
writing important eternal
Write only of what is important and eternal.
writing play judging
One usually dislikes a play while writing it, but afterward it grows on one. Let others judge and make decisions,
writing communes conscience
I confess I seldom commune with my conscience when I write.
writing simple men
When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me.
writing want example
Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.
writing break fingers
Write, write, write-till your fingers break.
writing foolish thinker
He is an emancipated thinker who is not afraid to write foolish things.
writing thinking soul
It's not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul.
writing intelligent men
If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am lost, I am lost; there is no doubt of that.
writing reality thinking
One difference with the political writings, whether about feminism or class, is that the intent is to change how people think of a certain political reality; whereas with cultural criticism, the goal is to illuminate something that is already there. bell hooks
writing thinking focus
My focus has always been on the work - that work being critical thinking and writing. I am always doing that. That's where I am, wherever I am. Critical thinking and writing as my heartbeat.
writing love-is thinking
When I write provocative social and cultural criticism that causes readers to stretch their minds, to think beyond set paradigms, I think of that work as love in action. While it may challenge, disturb and at times even frighten or enrage readers, love is always the place where I begin and end.
writing should performing
Writing and performing should deepen the meaning of words, should illuminate, transfix and transform.
writing technology able
By being able to write a genome and plug it into an organism, the software, if you will, changes the hardware. Barry Schuler
writing
I just write mechanical things. Barry Zito
writing fool boring
I never learned to read or write music. Never wanted to fool with scales. That was boring, forced. The music I heard was free - flowing. Barry White
writing clothes car
All I had was the will and the love for music. I couldn't read music or write it. No connections, no car, no money, no bankroll, no clothes, no nothing.
writing love-of-my-life important
Once I discovered how important writing music was to me and just what a huge weight it lifted off of me, I knew that it was going to be the biggest part of my life, the biggest love of my life, the biggest thing in my life. Banks
writing artist needs
Writing graffiti is about the most honest way you can be an artist. It takes no money to do it, you don't need an education to understand it, and there's no admission fee. Banksy
writing letters chance
Chance has something to say in everything, even how to write a good letter Baltasar Gracian
writing needs ugly
Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil.
writing use synonym
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the other one.
writing battle tvs
When you're just writing, you can do anything with it. But with TV, you've gotta work within certain budget constraints, so you've got to pick and choose your battles. Austin Butler
writing creative producers
I do a lot of co-writing with my producer RedOne, and then a lot on my own. I just like to be creative. Austin Mahone
writing thinking class
My writing is translated into every Indian language, it's distributed in pamphlets, in little private video things, it's everywhere. So it's a lovely pastime for the middle class to think of itself as the whole nation. Arundhati Roy
writing organization arrogance
The World Trade Organization, The World Bank, The International Monetary Fund and other financial institutions virtually write economic policy and parliamentary legislation. With a deadly combination of arrogance and ruthlessness, they take their sledgehammers to fragile, interdependent, historically complex societies and devastate them, all under the fluttering banner of 'reform'.