Quotes about writ
writing cities seven
I never write "metropolis" for seven cents when I can write "city" and get paid the same. Mark Twain
writing plain-language ideas
Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
writing style bricks
Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.
writing use information
It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off.
writing boys men
I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.
writing blow brain
I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well.
writing censorship print
We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print.
writing benefits amusement
It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit.
writing nonsense
It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense
writing exclamation-points laughing
One should never use exclamation points in writing. It is like laughing at your own joke.
writing pay offers
Write without pay until somebody offers to pay.
writing humble average
An average English word is four letters and a half. By hard, honest labor I've dug all the large words out of my vocabulary and shaved it down till the average is three and a half... I never write metropolis for seven cents, because I can get the same money for city. I never write policeman, because I can get the same price for cop.... I never write valetudinarian at all, for not even hunger and wretchedness can humble me to the point where I will do a word like that for seven cents; I wouldn't do it for fifteen.
writing plain-language adjectives
When you catch an adjective, kill it.
writing doubt adjectives
As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.
writing editors criticism
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
writing hands looks
Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.
writing confusing easy
Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
writing light ideas
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
writing editors crafts
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
writing law done
Under the Dodd-Frank law, the SEC got the lion's share of the rules to write, more than 100 rules, and we have done an extraordinary amount of that. Eighty percent have been either proposed or adopted. So, a lot, a lot accomplished but of course, more to do. Mary Schapiro
writing thinking agency
The SEC got more than 100 rules to write under Dodd-Frank, the lion's share of all the agencies. And we've moved, I think, with a tremendous sense of urgency. But it takes a long time to write rules and get them approved by a five-member commission.
writing self giving
Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine the kinds of stories we tell, and the stories we tell determine the kind of history we make and remake. Mary Robinson
writing survivor boat
In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity. Mary Ritter Beard
writing australia doe
I very much was inspired by Bill Bryson. He does cover science, but more often, it's a mixture of science and travel, and whatever he happens to be writing about - Shakespeare, Australia, the United Kingdom, or when he covers science in 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything' - he has an incredible ability to be both entertaining and enlightening. Mary Roach
writing challenges easy
The writing is always the easy part, provided I can get the good material. It's the getting of the good material that's a challenge.
writing careers may
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab. Mary Roberts Rinehart
writing certain harder
Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
writing perfect people
it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.
writing house want
I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it? Mary Boykin Chesnut
writing heart thinking
I don't think I ever worry too much about what our target audience is, what we should be releasing. I just write naturally and organically and try to write from the heart. Martin Gore
writing flow
I don't write poems and put them to music. Just let things flow.
writing soul
Anything that I write comes from the soul.
writing numbers would-be
If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even though there would be no one around to write or talk about them. Huge prime numbers would continue to be prime, even if no one had proved them prime. Martin Gardner