Quotes about writ
writing needs
You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else. Grace Paley
writing knows
We write about what we don't know about what we know....
writing past fiction
I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.
writing vocabulary useless
My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.
writing justice possibility
I write for the still, small possibility of justice.
writing people trying
I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.
writing people sometimes
People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.
writing dont-lie ifs
Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.
writing rejection wells
Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections. Gilbert Morris
writing sweat dozen
Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen. Jack London
writing information way
The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person. J. Robert Oppenheimer
writing important actors
You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves around their part so "This is the important part because this is the part where..." . Grant Heslov
writing thinking stories
Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.
writing dark horror-stories
I thought I could capture the stories of the city on paper. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city. Horror stories you see. I tell you I didn't have to look far for material. Everywhere I looked, there were stories hidden there in the dark corners. . . . I wrote and still there were more. . . . No one would publish them. 'Too horrible,' they said. 'Sick mind,' they said. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city but the horror is too big and it goes on forever. Grant Morrison
writing men trying
A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly. Georg C. Lichtenberg
writing men worry
The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.
writing intelligent people
Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.
writing thinking world
What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed...
writing knows
To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.
writing sunshine weather
There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where.
writing ideas trying
Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.
writing lays written
Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before.
writing successful way
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. Gene Fowler
writing white safety
Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write -Tough and Competent- on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control. Gene Kranz
writing
I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer. Gary Jennings
writing next lines
Why do I find it hard to write the next line? Gary Kemp
writing
Never put off writing until you are better at it. Gary Henderson
writing heart blood
Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart. Friedrich Nietzsche
writing blood spirit
Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.
writing equipment our-thoughts
Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.
writing two knowing
Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.
writing political choices
My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible. Jessica Valenti
writing relax certain
There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself. Jessica Simpson