Quotes about writing
writing thinking people
People who think well, write well David Ogilvy
writing lucky winner
Repeat your winners. If you are lucky enough to write a good advertisement, repeat it until it stops selling. Scores of good advertisements have been discarded before they lost their potency.
writing way
Write the way you talk. Naturally.
writing men agency
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
writing people together
Do not address your readers as though they were gathered together in a stadium. When people read your copy, they are alone. Pretend you are writing to each of them a letter on behalf of your client.
writing two pages
Never write more than two pages on any subject.
writing sixteen headlines
I never write fewer than sixteen headlines for a single advertisement.
writing said persons
I said that I'm only there to write the truth, I'm not going to cover anything up, but I'll put everything in context and get as close to the truth of this person as I can. David Maraniss
writing perspective people
I discovered in writing the biography of Bill Clinton that it is actually easier to write a biography of someone who is dead. Although you can't interview them, you have a fuller perspective on their whole life after they're gone and people are more willing to talk about them.
writing want moments
I want to write for history, not for the moment.
writing acceptable
The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true. David Mamet
writing plot hard
It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.
writing play long
A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.
writing thinking secret
I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.
writing thinking play
Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience. To think of a plot that is, as Aristotle says, surprising and yet inevitable, is a lot, lot, lot of work.
writing theatre classroom
The audience will teach you how to act and the audience will teach you how to write and to direct. The classroom will teach you how to obey, and obedience in the theatre will get you nowhere. It’s a soothing falsity.
writing fighting thinking
I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.
writing illustration stories
Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last. Dav Pilkey
writing hebrew
I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words. Amos Oz
writing musical important
My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.
writing lasts doe
Nothing is worth doing at all, nothing is worth writing, which does not do something which will last. Amy Carmichael
writing knowing interesting
It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write. Ally Condie
writing easier
Why are some things easier to write than say?
writing people trying
I was always enjoying the moment. Acting, writing, looking for roles and getting involved with people and trying to create something that would be entertaining to people. With 'E.R.,' we were all very lucky to get this combination of people together in the right story in the right way to take it to the level it has reached. Anthony Edwards
writing joy challenges
Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested. Anthony Doerr
writing
I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.
writing voice opera
I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music. Anthony Davis
writing meditation used
I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me. Anne Stevenson
writing feelings mind
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
writing character differences
There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females. Anne Tyler
writing character two
I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin
writing shy appearance
I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
writing looks lasts
I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.