![The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on your laptop, but you need to have a limber mind and you need to be able to write without judging what you've written, at least right away, and without editing right away.](/assets/img/quote-photos/the-thing-for-someone-just-starting-off-in-writing-is-to-write-you-need-to-hav.jpg)
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writing character prejudice
It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives. Katherine Paterson
writing world fiction
The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer.
writing satanic television
Many of you already read my writings indicating that TV is the new god. There is a little thing I neglected to mention up until now, television is the major mainstream infiltration for the new satanic religion. Anton LaVey
writing form extensions
Form is never more than an extension of content. Robert Creeley
writing hopefully knows
Hopefully, I write what I don't know.
writing men thinking
I don’t think any man writing can worry about what the act of writing costs him, even though at times he is very aware of it.
writing play important
Writing is the same as music. It’s in how you phrase it, how you hold back the note, bend it, shape it, then release it. And what you don’t play is as important as what you do say.
writing school unique
We all start out with the same alphabet. We are all unique. Talent is not the most important thing --- discipline and dedication are. Craft can be learned but desire and longing are innate. Despite the demands of school and just being young, try to write SOMETHING every day --- a description, a captured emotion, a simile, a metaphor. Read, for crying out loud! A writer must read the way a ball player must go to the ballfield every day to practice. Everything is possible in this world of ours--- and so's publication. Robert Cormier
writing intelligent thinking
I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.
editing final rights wants
He wants final editing rights and the final look at the movie and so on, Jackie Chan
editing less pictures room terms
His reputation, in terms of going into the editing room and working on the pictures himself, was much less with this picture. Craig Zadan
editing lead
I was editing for Kunal Kapoor when I got my first film 'Jaan Tere Naam' as lead actor. Ronit Roy
editing took
We took it out in the editing process, Joseph Cook
editing actors elements
There's editing, and scripts to read and edit, and casting, and all the elements of production that just sort of take up the normal downtime that you would have as an actor. So there's not a lot of that for me. Richard Dean Anderson
editing long negative
Do not put statements in the negative form. And don't start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. De-accession euphemisms. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague. William Safire
editing shooting may
One of the advantages of shooting digitally was that we had a lot of time. When you shoot, even if you do a good performance, it may get lost in the editing room. It's just one more way that a potentially good film might go astray. William Mapother
editing want film
I never ever see a film of mine after I release it to the public. I see it when I shoot it in my dailies and while I'm editing it, re-editing it and reshooting it and all that. By the time it's finished I never want to see it again. Woody Allen
editing style shooting
The content dictates the style all the time. That's the way it is. If the content of the film is highly jagged, neurotic, fast-paced, it just called for that kind of shooting, editing and performance.
judging
There are so many pianists that play so well. Once they're at that level, the judging is so subjective. Michael Luxner
judging veins ears
We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry, without being poets, or possessing the least of a poetic vein; but we can have no tolerable notion of goodness without being tolerably good.
judging people stuff
A lot of times the best trailers are for complete dogshit movies. It's a shame that people are beyond quick to judge things these days. Lots of great stuff gets lost that way. Rob Zombie
judging people instant
I wouldn't judge people on their instant responses. Rob Brown
judging tests sole
The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge of scientific truth. Richard P. Feynman
judging religion atheism
To an honest judge, the alleged convergence between religion and science is a shallow, empty, hollow, spin-doctored sham. Richard Dawkins
judging style riding
Everyone has a completely different style of riding and a different style of judging. Travis Pastrana
judging excellence creation
A revelation is to be received as coming from God, not because of its internal excellence, or because we judge it to be worthy of God; but because God has declared it to be His in as plain and undeniable a manner as He has declared creation and providence to be His. William Law
judging freedom-of-speech guarantees
Authoritative interpretations of the First Amendment guarantees have consistently refused to recognize an exception for any test of truth whether administered by judges, juries, or administrative officials and especially one that puts the burden of proving truth on the speaker. William J. Brennan