Quotes about writing
writing impact discipline
For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now. Janine Benyus
writing done states
Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness, Janet Malcolm
writing haunting
I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down. Janet Frame
writing journey land
All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land..
writing years land
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
writing lines bottom
You write to be read. That is the bottom line. Jane Yolen
writing growth ability
Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts.
writing needs stories
Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the story we need to write, they read the story they need to read.
writing exercise thinking
Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.
writing want talent
If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough.
writing exercise muscles
Exercise the writing muscle every day.
writing ideas hard
Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.
writing perfect get-better
It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.
writing writing-love
Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.
writing athlete character
Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.
writing thinking remember
Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later. Jane Smiley
writing interesting people
Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.
writing progress lucky
If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.
writing might mystery
I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.
writing icons reminders
Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.
writing desire novel
The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.
writing novel activity
Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.
writing editors effort
Screenwriting is a much more collaborative effort. When you write a novel, it's just you, with input from your editor. Meg Cabot
writing learning important
I will consistently strive to learn by what I hear, see, and feel. I will write down the important things I learn, and I will do them. Richard G. Scott
writing giving important
A quiet impression could be a personal instruction from the Lord. It is personal and private. It comes from the Lord. Why is it important to keep sacred writings private? Because then He will give us more.
writing ideas perfect
There's nothing as perfect as the initial idea. And the only reason I write and direct is to protect the writing, because that's what's most precious. Ricky Gervais
writing editing ideas
I like every part [of the film process ] except the business and admin stuff. The initial idea. Writing. Re-writing. Casting. Directing, Editing. If I had to chose I'd say writing, followed by putting music on the picture. That is magical.
writing discipline tvs
Of all the disciplines involved in making anything - TV, film or anything I do - the writing is the most valuable commodity.
writing favors newspapers
When woman has a newspaper which fear and favor cannot touch, then it will be that she can freely write her own thoughts. Susan B. Anthony
writing men thinking
We need a daily paper edited and composed according to woman's own thoughts, and not as woman thinks a man wants her to think and write.
writing reflection men
Just as long as newspapers and magazines are controlled by men, every woman upon them must write articles which are reflections of men's ideas. As long as that continues, women's ideas and deepest convictions will never get before the public.
writing culture email
[On culture] It's living the core values when you hire; when you write an email; when you are working on a project; when you are walking in the hall. Brian Chesky
writing space musical
We are increasingly likely to find ourselves in places with background music. No composers have thought to write for these modern spaces, which represent 30% of our musical experience. Brian Eno