Quotes about writ
writing imagine knows
Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine. Walter Dean Myers
writing biographies franklin
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human. Walter Isaacson
writing wings imagination
why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a form of mental cowardice, and I long to break free, to let my imagination take wings. It doesn't - yet ... Winifred Holtby
writing tasks enthusiasm
Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. Winston Churchill
writing leisure born
I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing.
writing simplicity intense
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge. Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words when short are best of all.
writing sacrifice men
If I had my way, I would write the word 'insure' over every door of every cottage and upon the blotting pad of every public man, because I am convinced that, for sacrifice that are conceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them forever.
writing law-of-attraction space
Write down the things you like most about them (don't expect change from them). Law of attraction will not put you in the same space together if you frequencies don't match. Rhonda Byrne
writing
I'm always writing or playing because that is my life. Rick Wakeman
writing school
I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it. Rick Springfield
writing thinking perspective
I always try and find new things to think about and address. That really opens you up as a writer. I can write a lot of what I feel and it helps put it into clearer perspective.
writing thinking two
I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between their friends and their parents. Rick Riordan
writing loss guy
Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff! Tristan Wilds
writing creative students
I was an A student and I liked creative writing. Trisha Yearwood
writing thinking mind
I think when I started to write The Mysterious Benedict Society that I had that kind of thing in mind - the notion of having to be able to solve puzzles and riddles because enormous stakes rode upon your ability to do that. Trenton Lee Stewart
writing would-be weakness
I would be a terrible director, I could never write anything. One of my great strengths is that I know all of my weaknesses. Topher Grace
writing focus wake-up
I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes. Vince Staples
writing bankers rich
A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money in poetry, there was certainly no poetry in money, and so it was all even. Robert Graves
writing people details
Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak. Rose Tremain
writing stuff firsts
Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.
writing
I began writing as an experimental writer. Sandra Cisneros
writing worry people
The ideal for me is to mix it up. When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre.
writing worst rate
While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best. Samuel Johnson
writing
By writing, you learn to write.
writing abuse tragedy
You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.
writing blessing liberty
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.
writing practice mind
To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others
writing poet labor
...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.
writing different praise
..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.
writing voice littles
My writing voice is a little quirkier, more singer-songwriter-y than the Top 40 stuff I cover. Sam Tsui
writing easier release
Press releases are easier to write than code, and that is still easier than making a great product. Sam Altman
writing ideas phrases
There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work. Ryan Adams
writing reform care
[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism. Ronald Reagan