Quotes about writ
writing criticism film
It's hard to see a film one time and really "get it," and write fully and intelligently about it. That's a review. That's not film criticism. Richard Linklater
writing bricks bricklaying
Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick. Red Smith
writing typewriters veins
Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.
writing educated civilized
The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write. Red Cloud
writing changed
I guess my writing has changed as my life has. Raymond Carver
writing trying world
In the beginning, when I was trying to write, I couldnt turn off the outside world to the extent that I can now.
writing judged
Writers will be judged by what they write.
writing want poet
Anyone can express himself or herself, but what writers and poets want to do in their work, more than simply express themselves, is communicate.
writing has-beens been-in-love
You have to have been in love to write poetry.
writing imagination littles
A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
writing thinking littles
I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation.
writing world very-good
Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.
writing expression talking
It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There's plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.
writing admire wells
You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.
writing literature crafts
There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.
writing insightful stories
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.
writing heart character
If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.
writing
That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.
writing secret knows
Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?
writing thinking people
For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.
writing thinking brave
You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.
writing
I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it. Sammy Hagar
writing together pieces
I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.
writing law order
Write me up for 125, poster my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license all that jive, I can't drive 55.
writing care stuff
Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care, I just do comedy. T. J. Miller
writing acting comedy
There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.
writing bangs ends
If you start with a bang, you won't end with a whimper. T. S. Eliot
writing important littles
The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
writing agony trying
What profession is more trying than that of author? After you finish a piece of work it only seems good to you for a few weeks; or if it seems good at all you are convinced that it is the last you will be able to write; and if it seems bad you wonder whether everything you have done isn’t poor stuff really; and it is one kind of agony while you are writing, and another kind when you aren’t.
writing editors editing
An editor should tell the author his writing is better than it is. Not a lot better, a little better.
writing poetry feelings
The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together.
writing editing form
Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process. Sydney Pollack
writing technology people
When I write a scientific treatise, I might reach 100 people. When the 'National Geographic' covers a project, it communicates about plants and fish and underwater technology to more than 10 million people. Sylvia Earle