Quotes about writ
writing thinking eight
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of. Barbara Taylor Bradford
writing winning thinking
There's been no nepotism in my acting artistic life, but I think it's been pretty clear in my writing life. I knew what a pantoum was at age 11 - I knew form - therefore I would win the poetry contest. But I also realized that I would never be a great writer. Aya Cash
writing levels lasts
I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it. Axl Rose
writing past men
As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past. Arthur Golden
writing simple men
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.
writing singers singer-songwriters
As a singer-songwriter, what I do is write about how the human feels. Bjork
writing thinking should-have
In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got. Betty Smith
writing simple ideas
I didn't even write the lyrics down. I got in the booth, I put down a little guitar riff and the idea I had was it was going to be really simple, I just want it to be all about the lyrics and I just literally sang the lyrics. Benji Madden
writing different schedules
Software is inherently complicated. If you say to somebody I want an airline reservation system, to really say what you want in terms of overbooking and fares, and different airlines communicating with each or schedule changes, it's immensely complex. And so you can't write a program that's any simpler than that full specification. Bill Gates
writing people reviews
You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code.
writing years two
And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing. Bob Schieffer
writing years two
It was 22 years of work in a row, right up until 1987. Twenty-two years in a row-either on tour, writing an album, or recording an album. It wasn't until 1987 that I was able to take a breath. Bob Seger
writing winter stuff
I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
writing typewriters darkness
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text. Charles Krauthammer
writing alive might
If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter. Ai Weiwei
writing goal stuff
I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal. Billy Joel
writing enjoy fourth
I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all. Beverly Cleary
writing successful keys
The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible.
writing want today
The audience today has heard every joke. They know every plot. They know where you're going before you even start. That's a tough audience to surprise, and a tough audience to write for. It's much more competitive now, because the audience is so much more - I want to say 'sophisticated.' Betty White
writing men humanity
The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin Enger writes with durable grace about a man’s quest for redemption and the human capacity for forgiveness. Benjamin Percy
writing thinking boredom
I really think I write about everyday life. I don't think I'm quite as odd as others say I am. Life is intrinsically, well, boring and dangerous at the same time. At any given moment the floor may open up. Of course, it almost never does; that's what makes it so boring. Edward Gorey
writing men evil
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. William Shakespeare
writing crafts suits
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
writers
There are probably writers who are much more visual than I am and some who are less. I like to think of myself as a happy medium. Brian K. Vaughan
written
I've just always written songs in a style that appeal to me personally. Lyle Lovett
written
I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern. Van Morrison
writers
Well, you know, writers just suck up new experiences - we're just like the vacuum cleaners of newness. Charlaine Harris
writers
Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre. Sara Sheridan
writing silence sound
I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet. Adriana Trigiani
writing way feels
The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am. David E. Kelley
writing long junk
Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it. David Eddings
writing expectations able
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything. David Baldacci
writing thinking singing
I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut. Dave Grohl