Quotes about writ
writing physicians medical
But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and write about the ones we can make sense of. Walker Percy
writing titles metaphor
A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.
writing materials ifs
Any life will provide the material for writing, if it is attended to. Wallace Stegner
writing heart cutting
A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.
writing fiction peculiar
It is almost impossible to write fiction about the Mormons, for the reason that Mormon institutions and Mormon society are so peculiar that they call for constant explanation.
writing want knows
We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.
writing practice skills
Creation is a knack which is empowered by practice, and like almost any skill, it is lost if you don't practice it.
writing make-sense
We write to make sense of it all.
writing want ends
I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end. Samuel Beckett
writing letters life-is
My dear Tom, Delighted to get your letter. Do write again. This life is terrible and I don't understand how it can be endured.
writing joyce
James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.
writing two waste
There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.
writing silence matter
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
writing years long
But years hath done this wrong, To make me write too much, and live too long. Samuel Daniel
writing plain-language imagination
Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very best styles you read page after page without noticing the medium. Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are, the more necessary it is to be plain. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
writing plagiarism stolen
Plagiarists are always suspicious of being stolen from.
writing prose-poetry order
Poetry: the best words in the best order.
writing paint get-up
Painters get up and paint. Writers get up and write. I like to get up and act. It's not a big deal. It makes me happy. Samuel L. Jackson
writing wagner please
Please write music like Wagner, only louder. Samuel Goldwyn
writing race choices
The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime twittering - anon Twitter has raised writing to a new low.
writing kitchen woven
I often write into recipes techniques that I learned in the restaurant kitchen. There are ways of organizing your prep and so on that are immensely useful. Those are woven into all the recipes I do. Sally Schneider
writing islam satanic
When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal. Salman Rushdie
writing advice done
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile. Rudy Rucker
writing home phones
As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for yourself, because casting people aren't always going to see you the way you want to be seen. Write a one-person show, shoot a short film, do plays, whatever - activity breeds activity. No one's interested in a stay-at-home actress. Wendi McLendon-Covey
writing people suggestions
Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion. Wendy Cope
writing imagination interesting
Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down. W. P. Kinsella
writing use lines
Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by paragraph, line by line, word by word, to see what made it so wonderful. Then use those tricks next time you write.
writing knowing said
I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can't you can't you can never be sure you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don't write W. S. Merwin
writing good-love political
But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that's not a reason not to write love poetry. Some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.
writing years long
I seem to write an opera about every 20 years; if you live long enough you can write four operas. I finished my third in 1970. Virgil Thomson
writing men taught
The element of craftsmanship in poetry is obscured by the fact that all men are taught to speak and most to read and write, while very few men are taught to draw or paint or write music. W. H. Auden
writing night people
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel.
writing winning doe
How happy is the lot of the mathematician! He is judged solely by his peers, and the standard is so high that no colleague or rival can ever win a reputation he does not deserve. No cashier writes a letter to the press complaining about the incomprehensibility of Modern Mathematics and comparing it unfavorably with the good old days when mathematicians were content to paper irregularly shaped rooms and fill bathtubs without closing the waste pipe.