Quotes about writing
writing learning rewriting
The best writing is rewriting. E. B. White
writing editors desire
An editor is a person who knows more about writing than writers do but who has escaped the terrible desire to write.
writing self stamina
Only a person who is congenially self-centered has the effrontery and the stamina to write essays
writing exercise journey
Writing is not an exercise in excision, it's a journey into sound.
writing men thinking
The essayist is a self-liberated man, sustained by the childish belief that everything he thinks about, everything that happens to him, is of general interest.
writing admiration admire
I admire anybody who has the guts to write anything at all.
writing numbers knows
We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers Dustin Diamond
writing attention bass
I really pay attention to the bass in the music I listen to, and that's what I tend to write toward.
writing years trying
I stopped working a few years ago because I just lost a spark that I'd had before. I thought I'd just try writing, and maybe start directing, but I did it very quietly. Dustin Hoffman
writing different truth-is
The truth is, writing and directing are two very different jobs. They're not even remotely the same job. It took me a while, as a director, to understand that. Drew Goddard
writing eight years
The decision to write full time was made when I was twenty-eight years old and had just had two small plays accepted for BBC Radio. Douglas Kennedy
writing technology digital-revolution
The digital revolution is far more significant than the invention of writing or even of printing. Douglas Engelbart
writing thinking stills
I think writing would have happened to me anyway, somehow. Differently, but it still would have happened. Douglas Coupland
writing animal thinking
I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what makes people people. The only activities I could think of that humans do that have no animal equivalent were smoking, body-building and writing. That's not much, considering how special we seem to think we are.
writing rude friendly
We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.
writing office judgment
In effect, Hillary Clinton would be abolishing the lawmaking powers of Congress in order to write her own laws from the Oval Office. And you see what bad judgment she has. She has seriously bad judgment. Donald Trump
writing special interest
I am not behold to any special interest, I've spent a lot of money on my campaign, I'll tell you. I write those checks. Nobody owns [Donald] Trump.
writing different littles
The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you.
writing business-deals people
Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.
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Iran should write us a letter of thank you for taking Mosul.
writing people doubt
To put it bluntly but fairly, anyone today who doubts that the variety of life on this planet was produced by a process of evolution is simply ignorant—inexcusably ignorant, in a world where three out of four people have learned to read and write. Daniel Dennett
writing play waiting-around
It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself Dan Castellaneta
writing process novel
For me, the process of writing a novel happens mostly in your head before you actually start writing. Dan Chaon
writing knowing worry
I always worry that knowing too much about a novel or a story early on in writing will close it down - it feels fatalistic in some way.
writing world pages
The danger in writing about a world you don't know very well is that you can get lost in it, and sometimes I'll end up with a hundred pages I don't know what to do with.
writing stories daydreaming
That's how I work, whether with stories or novels - they start with an image that comes to me in a daydream, and a lot of times I'm walking around with these pictures in my head for awhile before I start writing.
writing people trying
A lot of people work really diligently to maintain a "profile" in the writing world, but that's so hard, and so boring most of the time. So you just keep doing what you like to do, I guess, and try to enjoy it.
writing self people
I know a lot of people don't listen to music when they're writing because it distracts them, but for me it's almost a way to get into the self-hypnotic state that I need to be in to write.
writing effort sometimes
There's a lot of effort expended once you begin to completely trash your life. Sometimes, writing feels like this to me.
writing drunk people
I never could figure out how those people like Bukowski could be both carousers and writers at the same time, because to me writing takes as much destructive energy as it takes to be a really good professional drunk.
writing order aspect
I tend to like order in almost every other aspect of my life, but for me, the process of writing is really chaotic and decadent and indulgent.
writing news-stories people
People write fiction in their minds all the time - every time we read a 'human interest' news story, or a true crime tale, we find ourselves fascinated because we're trying to understand why people behave the way they do, why they make the choices they do, how we become who we become.
writing horror-stories ghost-stories
I wanted to write a horror story. But in some ways, I have always thought of myself as a kind of ghost-story/horror writer, though most of the time the supernatural never actually appears on stage.