Quotes about writ
writing men careers
I was writing a story, 'The Artistic Career of Corky,' about two young men, Bertie Wooster and his friend Corky, getting into a lot of trouble, and neither of them had brains enough to get out of the trouble. I thought: Well, how can I get them out? And I thought: Suppose one of them had an omniscient valet? P. G. Wodehouse
writing men echoes
It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.
writing want
I never want to see anyone, and I never want to go anywhere or do anything. I just want to write.
writing years agamemnon
Writings survive the years; it is by writings that you know Agamemnon, and those who fought for or against him. [Lat., Scripta ferunt annos; scriptis Agamemnona nosti, Et quisquis contra vel simul arma tulit.] Ovid
writing giving dumb
This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.]
writing comedian trying
As a comedian, I'm like one of those on-the-scene reporters. I will actually go and try to find disasters so I can write jokes as the disasters unfold. Paul Provenza
writing littles wanted
I wanted to write poetry almost a little more than I wanted to eat. Paul Engle
writing thinking water
Writing is like this -- you dredge for the poem's meaning the way police dredge for a body. They think it is down there under the black water, they work the grappling hooks back and forth.
writing rewriting
Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.
writing college missing
But maybe it's up the hills or under the leaves or in a ditch somewhere. Maybe it's never found. But what you find, whatever you find, is only part of the missing, and writing is the way the poet finds out what it is he found.
writing comedian kind
I was a standup comedian, which is kind of like writing and directing yourself. Paul Feig
writing sides thieves
Publishers are thieves, they are on the other side of the barricade. Paul Bowles
writing interesting trying
When you start writing things to try to persuade someone who's not already part of your guild or your profession that something is interesting, it forces you to ask yourself, "Well, why is this interesting?" Paul Bloom
writing different stuff
When I write I'll sometimes say things which are somewhat controversial - not because I'm seeking out controversy for its own sake, but if I don't have anything to say which is different, why am I bothering to write stuff down in the first place?
writing careers two
Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career. Matt Groening
writing thinking cartoon
Because good writing in a TV cartoon is so rare, I think the animation on The Simpsons is often overlooked.
writing people indifference
people never write calmly but when they write indifferently. Mary Wortley Montagu
writing firsts madness
For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write. Marya Hornbacher
writing once-upon-a-time matter
Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about. Mary Higgins Clark
writing simple doors
If you really want to write, then shut yourself in a room, close the door, and WRITE. If you don't want to write, do something else. It's as simple as that. Mary Garden
writing hopeless critics
My inner critic who had begun piping up about how hopeless I was and how I didn't know to write.
writing antisocial
Writing is an antisocial act. Martha Grimes
writing men voice
. . . if [writing] lift you from your feet with the great voice of eloquence, then the effect is to be wide, slow, permanent, over the minds of men; . . . Marsilio Ficino
writing blood bottles
I used to write letters to the wounded in the Palace Hotel, and I used to drive a station wagon with blood in bottles to a battalion aid station. Martha Gellhorn
writing
I didn't write. I just wandered about.
writing order
You have to stop living in order to write.
writing dark men
Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion... Marshall McLuhan
writing exploration absence
Most clear writing is a sign that there is no exploration going on. Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.
writing science people
People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.
writing media
In large measure, writing is the spatialization of thought.
writing magazines care
Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.
writing thinking people
I don't care what other people think any more about me writing my own parts. Mark Gatiss
writing actors want
George [Lucas] wanted to know whether we'd be interested. He did say that if we didn't want to do it, they wouldn't cast another actor in our parts - they would write us out, Mark Hamill