Quotes about writ
writing successful boys
When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible. Milan Kundera
writing ambition creative
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.
writing today patents
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today. Miguel de Icaza
writing great-love mines
Writing is a great love of mine. Micky Dolenz
writing trying speak
We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally. Margaret Wise Brown
writing first-time
I knew I didn't want to put anything down in writing about the first time that I had sex. I knew that I didn't want to do that. Mara Wilson
writing interesting something-interesting
The thing is, with writing, it's form or content. You need to write about something interesting or you need to write about it in an interesting way.
writing yawning want
Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is only a secondary state which is often superadded, but the want of which can have no prejudicial effect on it. Perhaps some of the greatest masterpieces were written while yawning. Marcel Proust
writing attractive-things attractive
One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead. Joseph Barbera
writing years goal
You should look ahead now and decide what you want to do with your lives. Fix clearly in your mind what you want to be one year from now, five years, ten years, and beyond. Write your goals and review them regularly. Keep them before you constantly, record your progress, and revise them as circumstances dictate. Joseph B. Wirthlin
writing men ordinary
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. Joseph Addison
writing ambitious literature
Among all kinds of Writing, there is none in which Authors are more apt to miscarry than in Works of Humour, as there is none in which they are more ambitious to excel.
writing people excellence
To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
writing two giving
Hudibras has defined nonsense, as Cowley does wit, by negatives. Nonsense, he says, is that which is neither true nor false. These two great properties of nonsense, which are always essential to it, give it such a peculiar advantage over all other writings, that it is incapable of being either answered or contradicted.
writing people world
The world is so full of ill-nature that I have lampoons sent me by people who cannot spell, and satires composed by those who scarce know how to write.
writing lapses genius
The productions of a great genius, with many lapses and inadvertences, are infinitely preferable to the works of an inferior kind of author which are scrupulously exact, and conformable to all the rules of correct writing.
writing convenience
Each one writes history according to his convenience. Jose Rizal
writing feet four
Sometimes I say that writing a novel is the same as constructing a chair: a person must be able to sit in it, to be balanced on it. If I can produce a great chair, even better. But above all I have to make sure that it has four stable feet. Jose Saramago
writing men wisest-man
The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.
writing thinking issues
The way that I sort of direct the writers is, let's do the best story we can. Let's not worry about production issues. 'How much will that cost? How are we going to shoot that?' Let's not set up those constraints on the writing. I don't think it helps the project to work like that. Jose Padilha
writing painful this-day
To this day writing is the most painful thing to do. Jose Antonio Vargas
writing causality problem
The central problem of novel-writing is causality. Jorge Luis Borges
writing too-much
I'm happy to write 10 times too much music. Jonny Greenwood
writing worry orchestra
I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel. Laptops as part of the orchestra, and installation sound, and speakers.
writing guitar talking
I don't mind when people are telling me about their 1971 Firebird, but it's the same thing as people telling me about their car or something. It's fine if you have an interest. By talking with me, though, you could be interviewing a novelist about guitars. It's the same thing, except I don't write that well either.
writing people lazy
Lazy reviewers look up other people's reviews and they write the same thing, so you get people writing crap based on crap. Joni Mitchell
writing loss tragedy
In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss.
writing lines laundry
I hang my laundry on the line when I write.
writing blood people
The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.
writing guitar frustrated
At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar.
writing play interesting
Once I got the open tunings for some reason, I began to get the harmonic sophistication that I heard that my musical fountain inside was excited by. Once I got some interesting chords to play with, my writing began to come.
writing years laughing
When I write something that would have made me laugh as a 10-year-old, or would have scared me or would have excited me, I know I'm onto something. Jonathan Stroud
writing thinking years
When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.