Quotes about writing
writing mind flaws
In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws. Agatha Christie
writing love-is found
I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up. Adriana Trigiani
writing emotional grandparent
But the most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes.
writing silence sound
I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.
writing thinking hands
A handwritten letter carries a lot of risk. It's a one-sided conversation that reveals the truth of the writer. Furthermore, the writer is not there to see the reaction of the person he writes to, so there's a great unknown to the process that requires a leap of faith. The writer has to choose the right words to express his sentences, and then, once he has sealed the envelope, he has to place those thoughts in the hands of someone else, trusting that the feelings will be delivered, and that the recipient will understand the writer's intent. How childish to think that could be easy.
writing dust people
Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it. Adrian Rogers
writing writing-essays theory
I don't like writing essays or theory. Adrian Mitchell
writing ideas flow
With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out. Adora Svitak
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.
writing enough young
I can't seem to write young enough anymore.
writing thinking mature
Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.
writing past done
Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
writing dark purple
When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
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.
writing style language
An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
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.
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.