Quotes about writ
writing play history
If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble. A. A. Milne
writing oxford cambridge
What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.
writing editing long
For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.
writing knowledge long
I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other. Adrienne Rich
writing white history
We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.
writing people lucky
She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read. Agatha Christie
writing typewriters meals
All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.
writing people comfort
Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
writing history generations
The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.
writing autobiography sooner-or-later
The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.
writing should-have imagine
I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.
writing letters originality
I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.
writing emotional grandparent
But the most precious research to me came from the paperwork filed on behalf of my grandparents and great-grandfather. The ship's manifest showed that they could read and write. I am still emotional when I look at those boxes checked yes. Adriana Trigiani
writing silence sound
I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet.
writing dust people
Some people have enough dust on their bibles to write damnation on it. Adrian Rogers
writing ideas flow
With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out. Adora Svitak
writing needs speak
It's been hard for me to not write, and that's the only process I can speak to I guess, it's so compulsive and I need to do it all the time that sometimes I make myself not do it so I can actually tend to my life. Adam Rapp
writing typical
A typical day for me is I'm writing when I'm not directing.
writing thinking speak
I think I'm more intensely opinionated when I speak; more agreeably balanced when I write. Adam Gopnik
writing joy said
Someone once said that the joy is not in writing but in having written. I can't say I find that to be true, though I understand the sentiment.
writing letters knows
You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter. Ada Leverson
writing blood years
Everything brought forward in favor of Socialism during the last hundred years, in thousands of writings and speeches, all the blood which has been spilt by the supporters of Socialism, cannot make socialism workable. Ludwig von Mises
writing issues liberty
This dilettantish inability to comprehend the essential issues of the conduct of production affairs is not only manifested in the writings of Marx and Engels. It permeates no less the contributions of contemporary pseudo-economics.
writing thinking dying
I had got this far, and was thinking of what to say next, and as my habit is, I was pricking the paper idly with my pen. And I thought how, between one dip of the pen and the next, time goes on, and I hurry, drive myself, and speed toward death. We are always dying. I while I write, you while you read, and others while they listen or stop their ears, they are all dying. Petrarch
writing hands mind
Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.
writing desire praying
I desire that death find me ready and writing, or if it please Christ, praying and intears.
writing night house
Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night. William Shakespeare
writers
I think that writers of literary fiction would do well to read more books for children. Eleanor Catton
written
I have written stories since I was a child. Rachel Joyce
writing rapper southern
Oh, southern rappers... so hard to write a rhyme when you only know 30 words. Daniel Tosh
writing people actors
I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented. Danai Gurira
writing years risk
The writer has to take risks and go somewhere full of mystery and possibility for the novel to deepen over the years it takes to write it. Dana Spiotta
writing want strange
I want what I write to be deeply engaging and strange and true.