Quotes about writ
writing thinking one-day
Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write! H. G. Wells
writing giving cows
Writing does for me what giving milk does for a cow. H. L. Mencken
writing men genius
The prophesying business is like writing fugues; it is fatal to every one save the man of absolute genius.
writing order giving
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
writing men world
The true bureaucrat is a man of really remarkable talents. He writes a kind of English that is unknown elsewhere in the world, and an almost infinite capacity for forming complicated and unworkable rules.
writing newspapers controversy
Whenever I write anything that sets up controversy its meaning is distorted almost instantly. Even the editorial writers of newspapers seem to be unable to understand the plainest sentence.
writing awkward phrases
Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.
writing giving feelings
I am, in fact, the complete anti-Messiah, and detest converts almost as much as I detest missionaries. My writings, such as they are, have had only one purpose: to attain for H. L. Mencken that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
writing men critics
A critic is a man who writes about things he doesn't like.
writing eggs hens
Why writers write I do not know. As well ask why a hen lays an egg or why a cow stands patiently while an underprivileged farmer burglarizes her.
writing psychics ideas
The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it.
writing moon thinking
Most people are unable to write because they are unable to think, and they are unable to think because they congenitally lack the equipment to do so, just as they congenitally lack the equipment to fly over the moon.
writing jigsaw-puzzles literature
No, absolutely not, writing doesn't have to be like a jigsaw puzzle, it can be a very linear undertaking. Guillermo Cabrera Infante
writing british
I am the only British writer who writes in Spanish
writing london british
I live in London and I am a British subject, although I do write in Spanish, of course
writing mind doe
But I do not have the reader in mind when I write. No true writer does that
writing literature matter
American literature had always considered writing a very serious matter
writing important titles
Titles are not only important, they are essential for me. I cannot write without a title
writing needs enjoy
When I write, I enjoy myself so much that what is being written really needs no reader
writing thinking ifs
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself
writing catholic bedtime
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
writing play serious
Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.
writing thinking cities
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
writing mean pages
When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.
writing needs form
Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur. Guillermo del Toro
writing perfect function
I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function. Greg Iles
writing discipline want
I continue to write. It's just one of those things that I do. I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore and that's no good. Greg Lake
writing numbers omission
I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that because it was work that was interesting and had I written more about it, it could have been useful. Grace Paley
writing crafts knows
Write from what you know into what you don't know.
writing movement knows
The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.
writing add four
I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.
writing should-have done
I know I've done good work. I've been very serious about my writing, and I've done the best that I could. But I don't feel that I've done more than I should have. In fact, I've done less than I should have.
writing plot stories
I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first.