Quotes about writing
writing thinking
I write to discover what I think Daniel J. Boorstin
writing sleep exercise
Every night for the next week, set aside ten minutes before you go to sleep. Write down three things that went well today and why they went well...Writing about why the positive events in your life happened may seem awkward at first, but please stick with it for one week. It will get easier. The odds are that you will be less depressed, happier, and addicted to this exercise six months from now. Daniel Kahneman
writing needs what-you-love
To write, you need to find what you love. D. J. MacHale
writing son thinking
The New Testament writers I think conceive of their inspired Scripture writings as flushing out, bringing to articulation, expounding and so on the climactic revelation in the son, but this in self-conscious fulfillment of the promises and covenants that were already made to God's chosen people in Old Testament times. D. A. Carson
writing people awkward
So there are all kinds of things that grammarian purists would argue are awkward forms of speech and sometimes they are intentional for rhetorical effect and sometimes it's the way people chose to write at the time. Inerrancy isn't interested in any of those kinds of things.
writing plans knows
I never know when I sit down, just what I am going to write. I make no plan; it just comes, and I don't know where it comes from. D. H. Lawrence
writing humanity mass
The great mass of humanity should never learn to read or write.
writing sneezing spiteful
I like to write when I feel spiteful; it's like having a good sneeze.
writing two tickets
I understand it all. I can write my own ticket for one or two movies. But if they're not the right ones, my ticket gets yanked. I understand that's how it works, and I'm okay with it. Cuba Gooding, Jr.
writing yeoman fairness
I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour'd much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman's service. William Shakespeare
writing focus acting
I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting. Abby Elliott
writing paper pieces
I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere. Abbie Cornish
writing notes dialogue
I only make notes, I don't write dialogues in full. And the notes are very much based on my knowledge of person. Abbas Kiarostami
writing complicated process
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning. A. B. Yehoshua
writing printed-word people
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact. A. E. van Vogt
writing years ideas
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
writing cost pay
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
writing play history
If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble. A. A. Milne
writing oxford cambridge
What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.
writing editing long
For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.
writing way pounds
They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.
writing knowledge long
I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other. Adrienne Rich
writing white history
We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.
writing ifs
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
writing voice liquid
Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
writing people lucky
She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read. Agatha Christie
writing typewriters meals
All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.
writing people comfort
Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
writing history generations
The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.
writing autobiography sooner-or-later
The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.
writing should-have imagine
I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.
writing soul stories
God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!
writing letters originality
I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.