Quotes about writ
writing impossible eating
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down. A. J. Liebling
writing pay firsts
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total. A. J. Liebling
writing faster i-can
I can write better than anyone who can write faster, A. J. Liebling
writing culinary appetite
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. A. J. Liebling
writing years fans
I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn. A. J. Jacobs
writing shadow feels
Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. A. N. Wilson
writing thinking people
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels. A. N. Wilson
written
Education is education, be it verbal or written. Aamir Khan
writing past history
The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down. A. Whitney Brown
writing way paint
I'd like to write the way Matisse paints. A. S. Byatt
writing novelists hated
I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about. A. S. Byatt
writing thinking venus
I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite. A. S. Byatt
writing ants literature
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants. A. S. Byatt
writing research pieces
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible. A. S. Byatt
writing creative sublime
Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that. A. S. Byatt
writing men
History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself... A. S. Byatt
writing light solitude
What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude. A. S. Byatt
writing poison terrible
It's a terrible poison, writing. A. S. Byatt
writing ease world
The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free. A. S. Byatt
writing good-writing
Good writing is always new. A. S. Byatt
writing want and-love
I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write. A. S. Byatt
writing ink hops
Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink. A. S. Byatt
writing school artist
There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing... A. S. Byatt
writers
Scottish writers are particularly successful in the crime genre. Sara Sheridan
writing focus acting
I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting. Abby Elliott
writing paper pieces
I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere. Abbie Cornish
writing notes dialogue
I only make notes, I don't write dialogues in full. And the notes are very much based on my knowledge of person. Abbas Kiarostami
writing complicated process
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning. A. B. Yehoshua
writing printed-word people
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact. A. E. van Vogt
writing years ideas
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again. A. E. van Vogt
writing cost pay
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way. A. E. van Vogt
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. A. A. Milne