Quotes about writ
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. Adam Gopnik
writing letters knows
You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter. Ada Leverson
writing life-is unpredictable
The course of life is unpredictable no one can write his autobiography in advance. Abraham Joshua Heschel
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 topics shame
I write about African women, that's really my topic. I have no shame or qualm in it because it's a very underrepresented topic, which is part of the reason I started to write.
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.
writing laundry wells
I am a great procrastinator. When the writing is going really well, the laundry piles up.
writing breathing order
In order to be a living, breathing thing, a novel has to be failed in some kind of way. Or at least that's how I keep writing them.
writing character emotional
I think there's a false division people sometimes make in describing literary novels, where there are people who write systems novels, or novels of ideas, and there are people who write about emotional things in which the movement is character driven. But no good novels are divisible in that way.
writing technology trying
I try to write about how we live today, how we use language, technology, our bodies.
writing long novel
It takes a long time to write a novel when you have to keep interrupting your work to earn money.
writing comedy spontaneity
I don't write any of my material down. I like to improvise and be spontaneous. Dane Cook
writing everyday littles
I'm willing to write a check for $10,000 if someone can bring to me what I fell is ruining thousands of lives, destroying lives everyday. And I know that you know it's a little thing called Chupacabra.
writing night funny-things
I'm sure that people who have been tweeting funny things have ended up on writing staffs of a late night show.
writing play ideas
I'm attracted to good writing. When I read the page and I know what we're after and where we're headed, and I'm fortunate enough to respect that idea and am able to pitch myself toward that, that feels like the culmination of everything that I've spent my life trying to do, since I played that tree in that play in third grade. Dallas Roberts
writing thinking years
David Foster Wallace is a big idol of mine. His writing is so clear that for years I'd read him and think, My God, he is actually writing the way I think. He's describing the thoughts in my head. And then I realized, No, wait. He's just such a good writer, so transparent and articulate, that when he describes his thoughts, I think they're my own. Damian Kulash
writing thinking littles
I don't think that I would ever, while writing, think to myself, "I need a little more psychological realism." Curtis Sittenfeld
writing trying special
I don't really have special rituals, but I don't try to write fiction unless I have a minimum of a few hours. For me, it takes a while to settle into a mode where I'm truly concentrating
writing people qualified
There are so many people who are so much better qualified to write about politics than I am.
writing men thinking
I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.
writing confusion way
Ironically, writing a novel is not a way to sort out your confusion.
writing want three
You write a screenplay and then everybody is going to want to get in on it and we have to figure that out. I've written three screenplays that are at studios and I still haven't been making them yet so there is always something that is either going to trip something up or maybe get another pass. Craig Brewer
writing choices important
I really like comedy. There's always a choice, when you're writing: you can either go for the joke or you can go for the story, the important stuff. David Chase