Quotes about writ
writing important about-yourself
The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself. Bernard Malamud
writing ifs
Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.
writing ideas reform
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
writing who-you-are
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
writing teach uncertainty
Teach yourself to work in uncertainty.
writing revision pleasure
Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing.
writing able feels
I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. Bill Withers
writing mirrors looks
I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.
writing simple might
My works really begin in a very simple way. Sometimes it's an image, and sometimes it's words I might write, like a fragment of a poem. Bill Viola
writing editing differences
A burro is an ass. A burrow is a hole in the ground. As a journalist you are expected to know the difference. Bill Walsh
writing outstanding headlines
Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives.
writing drawing attention
The writing doesn't distract me while I'm drawing and vice versa. I can devote my full attention to each. Bill Watterson
writing reflection way
I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
writing practice ideas
The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
writing two balance
Each kind of story has its own problems in writing, but my main concern really is to keep the reader on his toes, or to keep the strip unpredictable. I try to achieve some sort of balance between the two that keeps the reader wondering what's going to happen next and be surprised.
writing thinking ideas
I enjoy the drawing more than the writing, so I try to think of ideas that will allow me to develop the visual side of the strip as fully as possible.
writing firsts temples
He who writes prose builds his temple to Fame in rubble; he who writes verses builds it in granite. - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton Bill Vaughan
writing world language
We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it. P. D. James
writing matter ink
Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. William Shakespeare
writing hands fortune
Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest terms?
writing people fiction
The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of meetings between people. It is profoundly intimate in reaching into the psyche of another, at the same time as being devoid of social characteristics, cultural characteristics, economic characteristics. Will Self
writing divine-guidance goal
Set goals that are well balanced-not too many nor too few, and not too high nor too low. Write down your attainable goals and work on them according to their importance. Pray for divine guidance in your goal setting. M. Russell Ballard
writing light mind
Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing. Byron Katie
writing judging four
Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.
writing long fiction
Writing fiction, there are no limits to what you write as long as it increases the value of the paper you are writing on. Buddy Ebsen
writing thinking play
But, I don't think any arranger should ever write a drum part for a drummer because if a drummer can't create his own Interpretation of the chart and he plays everything that's written, he becomes mechanical; he has no freedom. Buddy Rich
writing school passion
I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting. Bryce Dallas Howard
writing done orchestra
I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras. Bryan Ferry
writing stories may
It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as my story draws to an end, may I say only, `Thank you. You have been simply wonderful'. Bryce Courtenay
writing trying appeals
I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else. Bryan Adams
writing thinking different
Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you've got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the point across. Good writing is more subversive I think - or good scenes. They are about one thing on the page but you can make it about something completely different. Chace Crawford
writing two three
For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to be every day. Chad Harbach
writing ideas parent
To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.