Quotes about writ
writing mean years
More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about. John Hodgman
writing years twenties
You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy. John Guare
writing play buttons
You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.
writing bridges house
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage. John Galsworthy
writing thinking men
As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
writing thinking people
I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music. John Frusciante
writing guitar play
I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead
written-word written
The written word is everything. John Drinkwater
writing firsts six
I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't. John Dos Passos
writing happens
Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.
writing creative different
There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should be experimenting on their own. Every writer faces different problems which he must solve for himself.
writing thinking discovery
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some particularly apt and original way of putting it down on paper.
writing mind phrases
The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.
writing lust rage
To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love. John Donne
writing scary important
Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up. John Edgar Wideman
writing scary messages
Even more precious is his Edward writes, I'm always saying that it is not the spirits who are getting it wrong; it's more likely that I am misinterpreting their messages. John Edward
writing order years
George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant. John Osborne
writing needs need-love
Writers don't need love; all they require is money.
writing thinking people
I do not wish to criticize any system that can nourish people’s spirits, but I find that a lot of New Age writing cherry-picks the attractive bits from the ancient traditions and makes collages of them; it usually excises the ascetic dimension. In general it is not rigorously thought out, but is what I would call “soft” thinking. John O'Donohue
writing down-and comedy
There are a lot of great jokes you can sit down and write, but that's just a written joke, versus the comedy of the situation. Ideally, you're pulling as much comedy out of the situation as you can. John Mulaney
writing done matter
I remember writing standup jokes without having done sets. But as soon as I did my first set, it didn't matter. Everything I thought would work didn't work. And everything I was iffy on was funny.
writing yogurt milk
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt. John Mortimer
writing important remember
It is desperately important to remember when enough is enough, when you've finished the scene.
writing found bores
The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.
writing hands knowing
This manner of writing wherein knowing myself inferior to myself? I have the use, as I may account it, but of my left hand. John Milton
writing able
I've always been able to survive by writing, though. John Milius
writing skills people
Writing requires a great deal of skill, just like painting does. People don't want to learn those skills.
writing pride fate
Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate. John Denham
writing years work-out
In my own field, x-ray crystallography, we used to work out the structure of minerals by various dodges which we never bothered to write down, we just used them. Then Linus Pauling came along to the laboratory, saw what we were doing and wrote out what we now call Pauling's Rules. We had all been using Pauling's Rules for about three or four years before Pauling told us what the rules were. John Desmond Bernal
writing language partners
Language exists only when it is listened to as well as spoken. The hearer is an indispensable partner. John Dewey
writing practice imagination
...compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from executive 'doing.' Each of these activities is then assigned its own place in which it must abide. Those who write the anatomy of experience then suppose that these divisions inhere in the very constitution of human nature.
writing interesting different
Programming in the abstract sense is what I really enjoy. I enjoy lots of different areas of it... I'm taking a great deal of enjoyment writing device drivers for Linux. I could also be having a good time writing a database manager or something because there are always interesting problems. John Carmack
writing character thinking
Nietzsche himself was a great moralist; his writings abound with value judgments about individuals, character types, modes of thinking, and national traits. It is as if he develops immoralist psychology in order to tame his own nature, to keep his own greatest vice in check. John Carroll