Quotes about writing
writing suffering failing
Writing humor in my column isn't as dangerous as performing it. If I fail in front of a live audience, the humiliation is as great as anything a human being can suffer. Art Buchwald
writing thinking trying
Writing your own jokes, you just kind of keep working on something until you think it might work, and then you try it out and hope for the best. Aziz Ansari
writing roles want
There are so many directors that I want to work with, but I can't tell you that there's one role. If I knew it, I would write it for myself. Ayelet Zurer
writing people tragedy
I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them. Ayelet Waldman
writing differences discipline
The only difference between a writer and someone who wants to be a writer is discipline.
writing listening might
The best, most natural dialogue is usually written as if the writer is listening to dictation. You might get stuck on any particular point and have to question yourself; but normally, dialogue writes itself. Ayn Rand
writing eye office
Do not set out to write with your eyes on the box office. It can't be done.
writing people way
You don't build for the way people live, but for the way they should live. I don't write about people as they are, but as they could be and should be.
writing creative fundamentals
By what he chooses to present and by how he presents it, any author expresses his fundamental, metaphysical values.
writing sin
It is a sin to write this.
writing lines stills
If you write a line of zeroes, it´s still nothing.
writing focus mind
Words are a lens to focus one's mind.
writing creative want
To be the kind of writer you want to be, you must first be the kind of thinker you want to be.
writing animal men
If a drought strikes them, animals perish--man builds irrigation canals; if a flood strikes them, animals perish--man builds dams; if a carnivorous pack attacks them, animals perish--man writes the Constitution of the United States.
writing thinking order
I have found, for example, that if I have to write upon sum rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with very great intensity-the greatest intensity of which I am capable-for a few hours or days, and at the end of that time give orders, so to speak (to my subconscious mind) that the work is to proceed underground. After some months I return consciously to the topic and find that the work has been done. Bertrand Russell
writing
Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.
writing winning hands
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while other write history. It matters little who wins. Benito Mussolini
writing winning hands
It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.
writing men thinking
He was one of these men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet. Benjamin Disraeli
writing discovery language
No one for a moment can pretend that printing is so great a discovery as writing, or algebra as a language.
writing way subjects
The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write about it.
writing law mba
I really had to decide why I was writing. I had no interest in going back to law; I very briefly - for about six hours - considered going to get my MBA, but in the end, I realized that the only work I really wanted to do was write. Ben Fountain
writing cutting thinking
I'm a writer, not an editor, and though the editing rarely cut into my writing time, it did take away from that walking-around-thinking-about-it-when-you're-not-thinking-about-it time that I think is important for writers. When you're half-thinking about what you're working on while driving, cooking . . . just letting things sift and settle, come to you.
writing trying honest
I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write.
writing decision want
If you want to write, then write; if you don't want to write, then don't write. I fell into the former category, and I just made the decision that I'd keep on because I liked it and might someday do something decent.
writing years stories
It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.
writing school law
The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.
writing self risk
I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are you totally deluded in sitting down at a desk every day and trying to write something? Is it self-indulgent, or might it possibly lead to something worthwhile? At a certain point I decided to keep on because I felt like the work was getting better, and I was taking great pleasure in that.
writing choral-music chamber-music
I never listen to music when I'm writing.
writing thinking self
I think if you spend much time dwelling on influence you can get self-conscious about every line you write. That's a great way to freeze up.
writing college age
From about the age of 15 or 16 I'd had the notion that I wanted to write fiction, and I'd done enough in college to satisfy myself that I had a knack for it - I wouldn't call it "talent" - though I wondered if I'd ever have the guts to actually commit to it.
writing college two
I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.
writing piano lines
I like writing on piano and a computer, and a lot of 'Plans' came out of samples and vocal lines. Ben Gibbard