Quotes about writing
writing design important
... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual. ... If I had not participated fully in all these activities, literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made, because I would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important. Donald Knuth
writing should-have ideas
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
writing thinking next-week
When you write a program, think of it primarily as a work of literature. You're trying to write something that human beings are going to read. Don't think of it primarily as something a computer is going to follow. The more effective you are at making your program readable, the more effective it's going to be: You'll understand it today, you'll understand it next week, and your successors who are going to maintain and modify it will understand it.
writing style sitting
My general working style is to write everything first with pencil and paper, sitting beside a big wastebasket. Then I use Emacs to enter the text into my machine.
writing thinking average
A lot of times, writers are told write as big as you can, and that's not untrue. But at times I think it's better to write as small as you can, to start scenes with little personal details or people who are doing average every day human things. That, to me, lets the average reader into that person's life. "Yeah I eat breakfast. I take a shower." Don Winslow
writing television actors
I just personally feel like the best writing for actors exists in cable television. Donal Logue
writing law people
Rittner's Computer Law: Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour. Don Rittner
writing long decision
In fact, merely writing the facts on a piece of paper and stating our problem clearly goes a long way toward helping us to reach a sensible decision. Dale Carnegie
writing artist always-trying
I never took drug to escape. I know some people take drugs to escape, but I took drugs because I was an experimenter. And an artist. And I was always trying to go to the other side of that veil and get information, like all writers have done through the millennia. To get some insights on how the whole thing works, if there's any way to know how it works, and write about it. Creed Bratton
writing editing people
A lot of people, myself included, are excited about blogging and stuff like that, citizen journalism, but I do remind people that no matter how excited we are, there's no substitute for professional writing, no substitute for professional editing, and no substitute for professional fact-checking. Craig Newmark
writing people different
Everyone is different, but I'm not standoffish at all. I'm not one of those people who prefer to write a note. I'll walk right up to you and ask you out! Even if the answer's no, I'm totally cool with it. Corbin Bleu
writing offending laughing
In comedy you sometimes have to look at the funny bone a little bit. So, that was the hardest part - was not offending. I'm not laughing at anybody. We're laughing together about who we are - and the funnier part of who we are. I'm (sure) not writing this and calling you a stereotype. I'm not doing that. Corbin Bernsen
writing interesting people
It's often wrong to write for specific actors because one ends up using what is least interesting about them, their mannerisms and habits. I prefer not to write for specific people. Claude Chabrol
writing attention may
One may gain attention by wearing a fools cap. But he would ruin his selling prospects Claude C. Hopkins
writing names stories
Names that tell stories have been worth millions of dollars. So a great deal of research often proceeds the selection of a name
writing attention stories
Whatever claim you use to get attention, the advertisement should tell a story reasonably complete
writing atmosphere should
The product itself should be it's own best salesman. Not the product alone, but the product plus a mental impression, and atmosphere, which you place around it
writing men oil
The advertising man who spares the midnight oil will not get very far
writing average may
The one just consider the average reader s only once a reader, probably. And when you fail to tell them in that ad is something he may never know
writing dollars scarcity
Advertising is utterly unprofitable, and I could prove it to you in one week. End an ad with an offer to pay five dollars to anyone who writes you that he read the ad through. The scarcity of replies will amaze you.
writing winning people
Do nothing to merely interest, assume or attract. This is not your province. Do only that wins the people you are after in the cheapest possible way
writing expression world
"Best in the world," "lowest price in existence, " etc are at best claiming the expected. But superlative of that sort are usually damaging. They suggestion looseness of expression, a tendency to exaggerate, a careless truth. They lead readers to discount all the statements that you make
writing unique style
Fine writing is a distinct disadvantage. So is unique literary style. They take attention from the subject
writing people trying
Ads are not written to entertain. When they do, those entertainment seekers rare little likely to be the people whom you want. This is one of the greatest advertising faults. Ad writers abandon their part. They forgot they are salesmen and try to be performers. Instead of sales, they seek applause
writing keys people
People who work on the user interface side need to have empathy as a key characteristic. But if you are writing device drivers you don't really need to understand humans so well. Andy Hertzfeld
writing want hats
But I can't and don't ever want to write bell-yanking confetti-tossing hat-throwing poems. Andrew Motion
writing way poet
But in a lot of ways my poems are very conventional, and it's no big deal for me to write a poem in either free verse or strict form; modern poets can, and do, do both.
writing done way
I am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way.
writing two tea
I get up at 5.30am, sluice myself and have two Weetabix and some mint tea, before starting to write by 6am.
writing trying moments
I shall try to write a poem that is about the moment but doesn't betray things that are true to me as a poet.
writing who-i-am play
I consider myself a person like everyone else, and I take my time writing my records because I feel like it captures more of who I am. You have a much greater chance of hitting on themes and points...that could play into someone else's life in a larger way. Andrew McMahon
writing marketing culture
Groupon as a company - it's built into the business model - is about surprise. A new deal that surprises you every day. We've carried that over to our brand, in the writing and the marketing that we do, and in the internal corporate culture. Andrew Mason
writing agony creating
I do not suppose that anyone not a poet can realize the agony of creating a poem. Every nerve, even every muscle, seems strained to the breaking point. The poem will not be denied; to refuse to write it would be a greater torture. It tears its way out of the brain, splintering and breaking its passage, and leaves that organ in the state of a jelly-fish when the task is done. Amy Lowell