Quotes about writ
writing past empathy
You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence. Geraldine Brooks
writing thinking fiction
When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't suppose. You can't imagine. And I think there's something in human nature that wants to finish the story.
writing reality thinking
While I love to read contemporary fiction, I'm not drawn to writing it. Perhaps it's because the former journalist in me is too inhibited by the press of reality; when I think about writing of my own time I always think about nonfiction narratives. Or perhaps it's just that I find the present too confounding.
writing years light
Because I worked as a newspaper reporter for about 14 years before attempting my first novel, I learned to write under almost any circumstances- by candle light, in longhand, in African villages where there was no power, under shelling in Kurdistan.
writing pages sometimes
I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something to work with.
writing cake judging
Judging from the letters I've received from obviously feeble-minded persons who wish I would write another These Old Shades, it ought to sell like hot cakes. Georgette Heyer
writing thinking mind
You always have to write script with a budget in mind. Although it's always good to write the big story, you really have to think about how things are going to work as far as cast, effects and settings. It's a process. You have to always think budget and then execute and make it happen. Harrison Smith
writing care authorship
Often turn the stile [correct with care], if you expect to write anything worthy of being read twice. [Lat., Saepe stilum vertas, iterum quae digna legi sint Scripturus.] Horace
writing gains applause
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
writing rights doors
If confirmed, [Judge of the Supreme Court] will write the words that will either broaden or narrow our rights for the rest of your working life. You will be interpreting the Constitution in which we as a people place our faith and on which our freedoms as a nation rest. And on a daily basis, the words of your opinions will affect countless individuals as they seek protection behind the courthouse doors. Herb Kohl
writing self risk
A person who chooses to die or to risk death demonstrates that there are values, principles, maxims, that are more valuable to him than is life itself. In short, he places his immortal self above his mortal self. Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are. Henry David Thoreau
writing liberty narrative
We can never safely exceed the actual facts in our narratives. Of pure invention, such as some suppose, there is no instance. To write a true work of fiction even is only to take leisure and liberty to describe some things more exactly as they are.
writing gusto wells
We cannot write well or truly but what we write with gusto.
writing luck literature
Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
writing men style
Who cares what a man's style is, so it is intelligible,--as intelligible as his thought. Literally and really, the style is no more than the stylus, the pen he writes with; and it is not worth scraping and polishing, and gilding, unless it will write his thoughts the better for it. It is something for use, and not to look at. The question for us is, not whether Pope had a fine style, wrote with a peacock's feather, but whether he uttered useful thoughts.
writing talking breathing
It's not what you do. It's the way you do it-stripping, or writing, or talking . . . or just breathing. Do it with an air, and never admit you're scared. Gypsy Rose Lee
writing decided knows
I know already the music I will write. But the words? I have not yet decided. Gyorgy Ligeti
writing together bars
I write bars, for the musicians, because they have to be together.
writing discovery joy
There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident. H. L. Mencken
writing blow trying
You never push a noun against a verb without trying to blow up something.
writing projects aim
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
writing soul desire
The writings of women are always cold and pretty like themselves. There is as much wit as you may desire, but never any soul.
writing easier exciting
It's exciting to do something you're writing. And it's also a lot easier to memorize because you wrote it. Jillian Bell
writing thinking people
I think the hardest part of writing anything is getting exposition out easily, without hitting people over the head with it.
writing hip-hop musical
I could hear music playing in the background of works by certain authors, like Poe and Shakespeare. And I discovered Nikki Giovanni when I was in eighth grade. Her writing has a musical energy with pulse and rhythm, almost like jazz or hip-hop. Jill Scott
writing character sandwiches
All you ever really want is a great character and great writing. As an actor, that's the juiciest sandwich you could ever ask for.
writing firsts so-hurt
Heartbreak was the impetus to me writing poems and music in the first place.
writing contemporary-fiction voice
I don't know what issues concerning identity have helped contemporary fiction evolve to what it is now. All I know is that the range of voices that are being heard and published is a lot more diverse than when I was coming up. Jessica Hagedorn
writing influential film
Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.
writing thinking dialogue
I love writing dialogue, and I think a lot of my writing is visual and very cinematic.
writing character thinking
It's a fact, the majority of films in Hollywood are from the male perspective. And the female characters, very rarely do they get to speak to another female character in a movie, and when they do it's usually about a guy, not anything else. So they're very male-centric, Hollywood films, in general. So I think it's incredible that Ned Benson, when I said I'd love to know where she goes, says okay, I'm going to write another film from the female perspective. Jessica Chastain
writing thinking self
I think my voice worked out fine, but it was a lot of work for me. And I was very self-conscious about it. I was a bit self-conscious about writing lyrics too. Jerry Harrison
writing space columns
Column writing is like gas - it fills the available space. Jeremy Clarkson