Quotes about writ
writing dykes stuff
And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes Nas
writing thinking people
When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out. N. T. Wright
writing bits personal-experiences
I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit. Miranda Lambert
writing want satisfaction
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say. Mark Twain
writing doors people
We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope. Merle Haggard
writing thinking way
I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps. Michael Connelly
writing men faces
Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. Oscar Wilde
writing media differences
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. Oscar Wilde
writing ideas water
If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow. Louis L'Amour
writing optimistic thinking
I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act. Michael Cunningham
writing people feelings
I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that. Jerry Spinelli
writing thinking doors
I wish, in some ways, I was the type of comedian who could do something blistering and topical, but I'm the guy who gets stuck in the revolving door and thinks I should write about that. Jim Gaffigan
writing quality language
Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor. Christopher Isherwood
writing trying messages
I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply. Jason Mraz
writing careers healthy
Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as a healthy counterpoise to unintelligent praise. Evelyn Waugh
writing curiosity age
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. Evelyn Waugh
writing understood
To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything. Eugene Delacroix
writing helping born
Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence. Ernest Hemingway
writing challenges done
Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done. Ernest Hemingway
writing goes-on moveable-feast
I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there. Ernest Hemingway
writing political luck
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens. Ernest Hemingway
writing epic guy
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones. Ernest Hemingway
writing mean people
To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right. Eva Green
writing reservations made
Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels. Ethel Waters
writing thinking artist
I think what makes people think that is because of things people write. It really doesn't have anything to do with the artist. Erykah Badu
writing growth inspired
I actually started writing it because I was inspired by my own personal growth. Erykah Badu
writing knowing people
You have to understand that people feel threatened by a writer. It's very curious. He knows something they don't know. He knows how to write, and that's a subtle, disturbing quality he has. Some directors without even knowing it, resent the writer in the same way Bob Hope might resent the fact he ain't funny without twelve guys writing the jokes. The director knows the script he is carrying around on the set every day was written by someone, and that's just not something that all directors easily digest. Ernest Lehman
writing territory unthinkable
But it is not at all unthinkable for anyone to tell a writer how to write. It comes with the territory. Ernest Lehman
writing people doe
To become an American citizen, we require people to read, write and speak in English. That is to help them to assimilate in our melting pot, truly to become Americans. We mock that when the cherished right to vote does not involve English any more. Ernest Istook
writing typewriters long
To say, "Well, I write when I really get into it" is a bunch of bull. Put the paper in the typewriter, stare at it a long time, get snowblindness if you have to, but write something. Erma Bombeck
writing stories checks
It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check. Erle Stanley Gardner
writing crowns literature
I cherish the review-as-literature; as lapidary journalism in the eighteenth-century mode, the last hard sparkling diamond in theessayists's tarnished crown. To me, writing a good review is not just a way to make extra money, but a sacred duty. Florence King
writing editing waiting
Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill. Flann O'Brien