Quotes about writing
writing boss slave
The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life. Anthony Minghella
writing mountain looks
Look at it this way: if you write the novel of 'Cold Mountain,' it costs exactly the same to produce and market as a novel set in a room. If you make the film, the disparity of costs is huge.
writing exercise mind
I have a rule: before I can throw anything out, I have to write down five possible uses for it. This stretches my mind and keeps it nimble - just like stretching exercises do for my body. Anna Olson
writing crafts spirit
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit. Anna Quindlen
writing thinking people
I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
writing news stories
Reporters are not paid to operate in retrospect. Because when news begins to solidify into current events and finally harden intohistory, it is the stories we didn't write, the questions we didn't ask that prove far, far more damaging than the ones we did.
writing thinking people
Writing seems to be the only profession people imagine you can do by thinking about doing it.
writing suits certain
You write to suit some sense in yourself and trust that that will resonate with a certain wider readership.
writing sunday brain
I don't have to listen to the Gospel on Sunday to know the stories of the New Testament. They inform so much of what I write that they're practically like a news scrim that goes through my brain 24/7.
writing trying habit
My most pronounced writing habit is trying not to write.
writing journey discovery
The beginning and the end are never really the journey of discovery for me. It is the middle that remains a puzzle until well into the writing. That's how life is most of the time, isn't it? You know where you are and where you hope to wind up. It's the getting there that's challenging.
writing
Not writing at all leads to nothing.
writing years editors
At the same time that you've got to open yourself up to the fact that experience is going to teach you year after year, decade after decade. I remember I very badly wanted to write a newspaper column when I was only 21 years old, and I went to my editor and told him that, and he said, "You're a really good writer, but you haven't lived long enough to be qualified to live out loud."
writing forever easy
Iran should write us yet another letter saying thank you very much, because Iran, as I said many years ago, Iran is taking over Iraq, something they've wanted to do forever, but we Americans have made it so easy for them. Donald Trump
writing drawing remember
I knew I wasn't that good a writer, and all I could remember was that I could draw. I'm better at drawing than I am at writing. Claes Oldenburg
writing needs actors
All I've tried to do as an actor is follow the good writing. That's been my main drive. It's not always possible, so when you do come upon it, like when I came upon this, you realize pretty quickly this is something you need to be involved with. Cillian Murphy
writing people tabloids
If you behave like a celebrity, then people will treat you like a celebrity, and if you don't, they won't. There's not much to write about me in the tabloids.
writing trying strings
Whether it's string writing or whatever, I try to write for what each instrumentalist can do best. Chuck Mangione
writing people listening
I write music people enjoy playing and listening to, and I have a group that loves playing the music.
writing teeth nails
Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest. Alfred Doblin
writing loss reality
It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the moment-to-moment reality of emotions. If this is true, literature's loss is science fiction's gain, for Out of Bounds, Judith Merril's collection of short stories, is a warm and colorful rendering of the minutiae of the future. Alfred Bester
writing way doe
No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other. Alexander Pope
writing parent ink
Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?
writing criticism censure
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.
writing men scribbles
But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.
writing men names
Some judge of authors' names, not works, and then Nor praise nor blame the writings, but the men.
writing thinking littles
When you finish writing the scripts they have time to take a breath and think about everything. There's just a little more time to think. Network does not allow for that. Alex Graves
writing fighting iceland
No, my favorite scene was Brienne finding Arya and The Hound. I thought that the writing and the dialogue and the confusion that spirals into the fight was such a cool scene. I knew I was gonna film it in Iceland and I did a lot of - I really scouted and climbed around Iceland to find those locations and I just couldn't wait to do that.
writing criticism different
A lot of food criticism has a similar flavor to it, and I'm probably going to write about it in a different way. Alex Kapranos
writing authority critics
I'm not a food critic, and I'm not really an authority to write anything on food.
writing ideas people
Cinema, which is influenced by every single part of life, is direct and reaches you immediately. And writing - the best writing is complex ideas communicated concisely. And music - if it's a good tune, make sure people can bloody hear it.
writing substance ingredients
That's what happens with writing. Ingredients bubble and cook. Material becomes substance. Alex Haley
writing alex praise
In my writing, as much as I could, I tried to find the good, and praise it.