Quotes about writ
writing army america
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America. John F. Kennedy
writing thinking done
Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted. Jonathan Kozol
writing silence horror
I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it. Jonathan Lethem
writing effort want
So much of the effort that goes into writing prose for me is about making sentences that capture the music that I'm hearing in my head. It takes a lot of work, writing, writing, and rewriting to get the music exactly the way you want it to be.
writing interesting world
The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.
writing sometimes screwed-up
I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.
writing littles esoteric
As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read a great novel - something that I could never have written myself - I'm still looking at it a little bit like a technician.
writing order paint
I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.
writing space long
I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.
writing discipline fields
Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.
writing expectations want
It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
writing mind body
Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.
writing kind fantastic
Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.
writing bored way
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
writing experts kind
Even though my entire writing persona is prefaced on me not being an expert, I kind of am an expert. I know a lot. Jonathan Gold
writing reviews interest
I write mostly positive reviews. I don't write about places that don't interest me.
writing artist play
I love acting in the theater,but I'm fascinated with acting on film. If it's a film or a play or whatever, if the writing is good and you really feel passionate about it, you just can't lose. You'll grow from it. Whether it's a success or not is neither here nor there; you're going to grow as an artist from this experience. Jonathan Groff
writing character thinking
I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that was true of the essay, too. If you'd actually tried to be true to the essay, it would have been, perhaps, boring. So taking that narrow little cast of characters and expanding it out, that was what was exciting about the project for me. Jonathan Franzen
writing thinking shapes
I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.
writing nonfiction enjoy
I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.
writing spectators reader
The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.
writing interesting verbs
Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
writing fiction connections
It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.
writing decision scary
The place of stillness that you have to go to to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you can actually make responsible decisions, where you can actually engage productively with an otherwise scary and unmanageable world.
writing errors wales
While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales. Jonathan Dimbleby
writing sometimes
And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future. Jonathan Brandis
writing careers actors
I want to be remembered as an actor who put in some good work in the beginning of his career, even better work at the end of his career and slowly, successfully made the transition into writing and directing.
writing character math
The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast of delightfully quirky characters, and a math lesson or two; all together, a winning equation! When Rojstaczer writes about mathematics, you'd think he was writing about poetry. Jonathan Evison
writing humans human-beings
As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you? Jonathan Coe
writing ideas two
I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.
writing wife littles
As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.
writing impact mad
You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.
writing political intimate
It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.