Quotes about writ
writing given form
Life, with its rules, its obligations, and its freedoms, is like a sonnet: You're given the form, but you have to write the sonnet yourself. - Mrs. Whatsit Madeleine L'Engle
writing world paint
Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.
writing past style
Modern as the style of Pascal's writing is, his thought is deeply impregnated with the spirit of the Middle Ages. He belonged, almost equally, to the future and to the past. Lytton Strachey
writing men creation-of-man
Perhaps of all the creations of man language is the most astonishing.
writing doe world
The rule is: the word 'it's' (with apostrophe) stands for 'it is' or 'it has'. If the word does not stand for 'it is' or 'it has' then what you require is 'its'. This is extremely easy to grasp. Getting your itses mixed up is the greatest solecism in the world of punctuation. No matter that you have a PhD and have read all of Henry James twice. If you still persist in writing, 'Good food at it's best', you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave. Lynne Truss
writing lightning good-food
If you still persist in writing, "Good food at it's best", you deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave.
writing important lines
Basically, I just want to make movies and maybe even produce TV later down the line, do some writing, maybe a tour with my music. And start a family! That's really important to me. Lucy Hale
writing stories breaking-down
I'm still getting to the good part / the breaking down / learning how to write my story.
writing echoes trying
Don't try to write anything you can't feel - it will be a failure - 'echoes nothing worth Lucy Maud Montgomery
writing character men
I'd write of people and places like I knew, and I'd make my characters talk everyday English; and I'd let the sun rise and set in the usual quiet way without much fuss over the fact. If I had to have villains at all, I'd give them a chance, Anne--I'd give them a chance. There are some terrible bad men the world, I suppose, but you'd have to go a long piece to find them...But most of us have got a little decency somewhere in us. Keep on writing, Anne.
writing want said
Make them do as you want them to," she said. "I can’t," mourned Anne. "Averil is such an unmanageable heroine. She will do and say things I never meant her to. Then that spoils everything that went before and I have to write it all over again.
writing born
You have the itch for writing born in you. It's quite incurable. What are you going to do with it?
writing names paper
When I read that the flash came, and I took a sheet of paper. . .and I wrote on it: I, Emily Byrd Starr, do solemnly vow this day that I will climb the Alpine Path and write my name on the scroll of fame.
writing knowing good-writing
The point of good writing is knowing when to stop.
writing funeral lines
never write a line you'd be ashamed to read at your own funeral.
writing people may
You'll never write anything that really satisfies you though it may satisfy other people.
writing reason-why being-true
one reason why I like writing poetry - you can say so many things in it that are true in poetry but wouldn't be true in prose.
writing reason instinct
Write out of love, write out of instinct, write out of reason. But always for money. Louis Untermeyer
writing thinking giving
The world is full of CEOs that think that just because they write a memo or they write a letter inside an annual report or they give a little video speech that gets sent around the company, they think that's what's really going to affect employees. Lou Gerstner
writing thinking advice
Whenever I'm asked what advice I have for young writers, I always say that the first thing is to read, and to read a lot. The second thing is to write. And the third thing, which I think is absolutely vital, is to tell stories and listen closely to the stories you're being told. John Green
writing doe
Writing does not resurrect. It buries.
writing golf wish
I don't trust myself enough. When I write, I overwrite. Gingerbread. Too much gingerbread. Writing is probably the only hobby I have. But I wish I had another one. If I was just a little better at golf. John Goodman
writing sea helping
Writing a novel is like heading out over the open sea in a small boat. It helps, if you have a plan and a course laid out. John Gardner
writing imagination knows
Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination than only writing about what you know
writing people might
People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile, they'll keep writing and you'll have hanged yourself.
writing thinking editors
And in Hollywood, you know, everyone is an expert. Most of them are expert editors. They can't direct, they can't write, they can't act, but, by God, they all think they can edit. John Frankenheimer
writing thinking rocks
I practice really hard, every day. I started that about 13 or 14 years ago; it's a discipline now. But the writing is a whole other thing. It'll come from handling a guitar, mostly; thinking up little guitar riffs. I was born and raised a rock 'n' roll guy, and that's the rock 'n' roll ethic, at least through my experience. John Fogerty
writing dark civilization
He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. John Fowles
writing garden creating
The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.
writing reading-poetry poetry
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
writing doubt mind
On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion of a lifelike quality. You see, actually lifelike, tape-recorded dialogue like this has very little to do with good novel dialogue. It's a matter of getting that awful tyranny of mimesis out of your mind, which is difficult.
writing needs alternatives
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
writing careers two
Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what might be called the awkward age-too old to begin a new career and too young to write my memoirs. John F. Kennedy