Quotes about writ
writing important capacity
The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish. Terry Southern
writing long walks
There are times when the best writing you can do is to go for a walk or drive, a long drive is ideal. Terry Pratchett
writing dementia live-well
It is possible to live well with dementia and write best-sellers 'like wot I do.
writing ankh reign
The point is that descriptive writing is very rarely entirely accurate and during the reign of Olaf Quimby II as Patrician of Ankh-Morpork some legislation was passed in a determined attempt to ?put a stop to this sort of thing and introduce some honest.
writing artist creative
They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control. Teena Marie
writing long preparation
You know that this vignette and that vignette belong side by side, you know that a certain turn of phrase you've been saving will probably work best within a given section of the narrative. As in a jazz performance, writing lives or dies by what's produced in that moment. But that moment is attended by long preparation. Teju Cole
writing potatoes environment
Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.
writing marketing purpose
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.
writing divorce plies
I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.
writing views mourning
tried to focus on a particular aspect of this historical moment: the failure of mourning. This is something I haven't seen a great deal of in the writing around this disaster. And my view is that you write about disaster by writing around it, by writing allusively.
writing three rioting
Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.
writing reality trying
What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life. Ted Hughes
writing thinking smell
...imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself into it. When you do this, the words look after themselves, like magic.
writing office house
Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes. Randall Munroe
writing internet audience
The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
writing life-and-death doe
An author frequently chooses solemn or overwhelming subjects to write about; he is so impressed at writing about Life and Death that he does not notice that he is saying nothing of the slightest importance about either. Randall Jarrell
writing successful people
A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental when the poem is good, or embarrassing or absurd when it is bad and he is not permitted to say how the good poem is good, and may never know how the bad poem is bad. It is better to write about other people's poetry.
writing poet
whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best.
writing poet cures
Many poets...write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.
writing arrows way
The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent. Ralph Waldo Emerson
writing law grace
We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off. Randall Terry
writing wish rhyme
I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
writing dew should
Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.
writing quality paint
We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.
writing growing horns
So in writing, there is always a right word, and every other than that is wrong. There is no beauty in words except in their collocation. The effect of a fanciful word misplaced, is like that of a horn of exquisite polish growing on a human head.
writing lines reader
Let the reader find that he cannot afford to omit any line of your writing because you you have omitted every word that he can spare.
writing grace grace-of-god
All writing comes by the grace of God.
writing character men
The Gods we worship write their names on our faces; be sure of that. And a man will worship something ... That which dominates will determine his life and character. Therefore it behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.
writing thinking long
I think ultimately it's just time management. You're just doing a lot more stuff. You're doing the same stuff, you're writing and you're producing, but it just comes with a lot of other things. A lot of long term thinking and plotting things out for the future, bringing elements together. I have a lot of support. Scott M. Gimple
writing keyboards losing
It is horrible to sit in front of the keyboard and write those scenes because you're losing too. You lose somebody you enjoy working with.
writing thinking hands
I don't know necessarily that I would produce under my own company right now. Producing is not something that I'm thinking about. Directing is something that I will be doing very shortly, trying to figure out what to get my hands on. And I can't imagine writing a script and wanting to direct it and not having a producing credit, because I would want to have a big chunk of power on that end, if I wrote something. Scarlett Johansson
writing opportunity talking
You have Cameron Crowe write an incredible monologue for you just based on the things that you're talking about. It just became this opportunity that was too exciting a process to pass up.
writing hands trying
I began the way nearly everybody I ever heard of - I began writing poetry. And I find that to be quite usual with writers, their trying their hand at poetry. Shelby Foote