Quotes about writ
writing thinking years
I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all. Stephen King
writing members polite
If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.
writing two creating
I like to write short stories more because I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. And a short story is, by its very definition, short. It is something that generally you can turn out in a week to two weeks depending on how well it goes for you. But, at the same time, it gives the same satisfaction of creating a complete world.
writing commandments
Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.
writing secret shadow
I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.
writing horror-stories guy
I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils.
writing thinking ideas
There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk about because I don't think conceptually while I work on a first draft -- I just write. To get scientific about it is a little like trying to catch moonbeams in a jar. But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.
writing thinking way
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.
writing scare losing
What really scares me is Alzheimer's or premature senility, losing that ability to read and enjoy and to write. And you do it, and some days maybe aren't so good, and then some days, you really catch a wave, and it's as good as it ever was.
writing mind left-alone
The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.
writing thinking pneumonia
I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion. Stephen Hawking
writing goal knows
Dont imitate. Write what you know about, that has to be your goal. Roman Coppola
writing flow sometimes
Sometimes in writing you have difficult periods and then other times it just flows.
writing inspire comfort
Writing a funny story is one thing. But writing a funny story that inspires others to venture beyond their level of comfort in pursuit of their greater good is what makes me come alive. Romany Malco
writing notes ifs
I myself never make any notes. Usually, if I write something down, I can't read it afterwards. Roman Abramovich
writing ukraine law
It is not democracy to send in billions of dollars to push regime change overseas. It isn't democracy to send in the NGOs to re-write laws and the constitution in places like Ukraine. It is none of our business. Ron Paul
writing men intelligent
No intelligent man wears a moustache voluntarily - you can write that down. Sam Neill
writing thinking stories
I think we're always in the process of writing and rewriting the story of our lives, forming our experiences into a narrative that makes sense. Much of that work involves demythologizing family myths and cultural myths - getting free of what we have been told about ourselves. Sam Keen
writing hands solitude
My writing method is to sit in a very small hut absolutely alone. I write in total solitude. And I write on paper, on hand, and then it gets typed. Normal for me. Sally Potter
writing ideas insecurity
I had no idea that he was going to write that, but I've always believed that insecurity was what would keep you always in your innocence, no matter what the business did. Sally Kirkland
writing acting comedy
I love acting but I also love writing, especially comedy. Sally Hawkins
writing government interesting
... Washington is, for one thing, the news capital of the world. And for another, it is a company town. Most of the interesting people in Washington either work for the government or write about it. Sally Quinn
writing school drawing
I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people. Sally Phillips
writing comedian casts
Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
writing absurd situation
When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
writing people commodity
There were the days when women were under contract, and they were thought of as a commodity, so they hired the best writers and a lot of them were women at the time. This was in the thirties and forties, to make product for the people who were under contract, who were their assets to the studios. But that doesn't exist anymore - and as a result, the people who are in the industry write products that interest them. Sally Field
writing preparation trying
I am dissatisfied with everything I have ever written and regard it all only as a preparation for that one work which probably I don't have it in me to write but which I hope I can go on trying for. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
writing
Eunice Parchman killed the Coverdale family because she could not read or write. Ruth Rendell
writing people letters
I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.
writing thinking balls
Do you think I know what I'm doing? That for one breath or half-breath I belong to myself? As much as a pen knows what it's writing, or the ball can guess where it's going next. Rumi
writing fighting letters
I don't write polite letters. I don't like to plea-bargain. I like to fight. Roy Cohn
writing thinking smooth
I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing. Roy Blount, Jr.
writing drug statistics
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.