Quotes about writ
writing thinking practice
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other. Charles Caleb Colton
writing justice add
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.
writing first-love should-have
Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss. Charles Dickens
writing names forgiving
Take the pencil and write under my name, 'I forgive her.
writing support events
Dickens writes that an event, "began to be forgotten, as most affairs are, when wonder, having no fresh food to support it, dies away of itself.
writing stories want
Us writers all like each other and want to write stories with each other; we're having a good time. Charles Soule
writing years long
If I write too much of anything for too long, I burn out on it. So it helps to vary my output from year to year. Charles Stross
writing hints facts
If I wanted to be in movies, I'd have gone into scriptwriting: the fact that I write novels should be a big hint about what I prefer to do!
writing ideas stories
Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.
writing typewriters keys
I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.
writing ideas care
If an idea is compelling enough it'll stick in my head until I am forced to write it. If it's forgettable, who cares?
writing novel available
Writing novels takes up about 100% of my available working time.
writing giving window
I write almost entlirely on Macs, because: Windows gives me hives.
writing years ideas
I have time to write 1-2 novels per year, and get roughly novel-sized ideas every month. I have to perform triage on my own writing impulses.
writing hands tongue
God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails Charles Spurgeon
writing blessing people
Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble
writing army names
Doth not all nature around me praise God? If I were silent, I should be an exception to the universe. Doth not the thunder praise Him as it rolls like drums in the march of the God of armies? Do not the mountains praise Him when the woods upon their summits wave in adoration? Doth not the lightning write His name in letters of fire? Hath not the whole earth a voice? And shall I, can I, silent be?
writing records
I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that! Alanis Morissette
writing ideas people
Writing the record for me - every record is almost a surprise. When people ask me, what are the themes you want to grapple with on this one? I have no idea until the record's finished.
writing sick share
But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.
writing feelings pieces
There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.
writing men names
Different Chinese philosophers, writing probably in 5-4 centuries B.C., presented some major ideas and a way of life that are nowadays known under the name of Taoism, the way of correspondence between man and the tendency or the course of natural world. Alan Watts
writing study paradox
If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly.
writing learning thinking
You think you KNOW when you learn, are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program. Alan Perlis
writing program
Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
writing two errors
There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
writing character journey
I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word: a journey. Alan Rickman
writing creative steps
I'm dependent on writing for a living, so really it's to my advantage to understand how the creative process works. One of the problems is, when you start to do that, in effect you're going to have to step off the edge of science and rationality. Alan Moore
writing trying unendurable
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable.
writing thinking brain
In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain.
writing cutting long
The one thing with writing stories about the rise of fascism is that if you wait long enough, you'll almost certainly be proved right. Fascism is like a hydra - you can cut off its head in the Germany of the '30s and '40s, but it'll still turn up on your back doorstep in a slightly altered guise.
writing way songwriting
You write a hit the same way you write a flop. Alan Jay Lerner
writing happens
You just write about things that happen. Alan Jackson