Quotes about writ
writing simple men
When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The Roman legionary is there, shaking his cap, or head, and Andy Capp is there, slouching in his signature working man's headgear. Geraldine Brooks
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.
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 years east
I was a news reporter for 16 years, seven of them a foreign correspondent in the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Perhaps the most useful equipment I acquired in that time is a lack of preciousness about the act of writing. A reporter must write. There must be a story. The mot juste unarriving? Tell that to your desk.
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 air
I think myself I ought to be shot for writing such nonsense.... But it's unquestionably good escapist literature and I think I should rather like it if I were sitting in an air-raid shelter or recovering from flu.
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 apology thinking
In my youth I thought of writing a satire on mankind! but now in my age I think I should write an apology for them. Horace
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.]
writing authorship ability
Ye who write, choose a subject suited to your abilities. [Lat., Sumite materiam vestris, qui scribitis, aequam Viribus.]
writing gains applause
One gains universal applause who mingles the useful with the agreeable, at once delighting and instructing the reader.
writing parent firsts
Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.
writing foundation source
Knowledge is the foundation and source of good writing. [Lat., Scibendi recte sapere est et principium et fons.]
writing past needs
I keep recycling and repackaging music that I've done in the past, as though I can't write anymore. Like, okay, I'm done with that. But I need to kind of prod myself again into come on, Herbie, get off your duff and start writing some new music. Herbie Hancock
writing science europe
Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to all other parts of the globe, yet most, if not all geologists, write as though it were so. Herbert Spencer
writing style speech
To have a specific style is to be poor in speech.
writing literature impossible
It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open. Herman Melville
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
I cannot easily buy a blank-book to write thoughts in; they are commonly ruled for dollars and cents. Henry David Thoreau
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.
writing hands style
Steady labor with the hands, which engrosses the attention also, is unquestionably the best method of removing palaver and sentimentality out of one's style, both of speaking and writing.
writing successful giving
The scholar may be sure that he writes the tougher truth for the calluses on his palms. They give firmness to the sentence. Indeed, the mind never makes a great and successful effort, without a corresponding energy of the body.
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 men thinking
Let no one think that I do not love the old ministers. They were, probably, the best men in their generation, and they deserve that their biographies should fill the pages of the town histories. If I could but hear the "glad tidings" of which they tell, and which, perchance, they heard, I might write in a worthier strain than this.
writing poetry today
The poet is he who can write some pure mythology today without the aid of posterity.
writing deeds may
Writing may be either the record of a deed or a deed. It is nobler when it is a deed.
writing two class
There are two classes of authors: the one write the history of their times, the other their biography.
writing men speak-english
Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.
writing vision peers
The poet will write for his peers alone. He will remember only that he saw truth and beauty from his position, and expect the time when a vision as broad shall overlook the same field as freely.
writing hands given
The more you have thought and written on a given theme, the more you can still write. Thought breeds thought. It grows under your hands.