Quotes about writing
writing trying want
When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem to apply. Dan Savage
writing people needs
Oftentimes, when people write me 4,000-word letters, I write them back and tell them if their problem's that complicated, they probably need a lawyer or a cop, and not me. Dan Savage
writing people want
You know, my problem is I cant say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things. Dan Savage
writing columns
I don't write about my life in my column. Dan Savage
writing rocks built
Writing is the rock on which everything is built. Dan Rather
writing mind actors
Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes. Dan Futterman
writing connections protection
I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you. Dan Farmer
writing successful wow
You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that! Dan Fogelberg
writing littles talent
I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing. Cyril Cusack
writing broadway wanted
I wanted to write for Broadway. Cynthia Weil
writing people records
Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records. Cynthia Weil
writing enough young
I can't seem to write young enough anymore. Cynthia Weil
writing thinking mature
Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature. Cynthia Weil
writing past done
Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more. Cynthia Weil
writing clothes creative
That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws. Cynthia Weil
writing order obsession
I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing. Cynthia Ozick
writing humanity
Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English. Cynthia Ozick
writing secret lines
I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar. Cynthia Ozick
writing acts-of-courage ifs
If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage. Cynthia Ozick
writing watches world
A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out. Cyril Connolly
writing years promise
Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their promise. Promise is like the mediaeval hangman who after settling the noose, pushed his victim off the platform and jumped on his back, his weight acting a drop while his jockeying arms prevented the unfortunate from loosening the rope. When he judged him dead he dropped to the ground. Cyril Connolly
writing dark purple
When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose. Cyril Connolly
writing stories veins
The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the powers of supply variable, and the reader, with each one he absorbs, grows a little more sophisticated and harder to please, while the novelist, after each one he writes, becomes a little more exhausted. Cyril Connolly
writing style language
An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness. Cyril Connolly
writing comedy comic
A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy. Colm Meaney
writing reason share
The only reason I write at all is because I am going through, and growing through, something in my life I want to share with others through my personal experiences. Daphne Oz
writing bumps paper
I was coming back from Tel Aviv recently, and we had forty minutes of bumps. I got so scared I grabbed a paper and pen and put them in my pocket, just in case we crashed and I needed to write a letter from wherever we landed. Daniela Pestova
writing trying stuff
I try to write about the stuff that torments us all. Danielle Steel
writing one-day catharsis
When you can bring yourself to write about it one day, you will find it all less painful. It is a catharsis of sorts, but the process can be brutal. Don’t do it until you’re ready. Danielle Steel
writing play lunch
If you let anything infringe on your writing time, it will. And you won't get the writing done. Taking one day off can cost me five days of getting back in the mood. Going out to lunch can cost me anywhere from five hours to three days. And for me it's not worth it. For my own sense of well-being I have to finish my work before I can play. Danielle Steel
writing people trying
I always try to write about believable people. Danielle Steel
writing cake literature
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it. Danielle Steel
writing people idiot
I post probably 5 to 10 times a day in my forum. I have a forum directly related to my blog where I will write my blog and people will disagree with me and call me an idiot so then I will say this is why I wrote that and blah, blah, blah. I spend a lot of time online. Daniel Negreanu