Quotes about writ
writing expectations able
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything. David Baldacci
writing thinking singing
I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut. Dave Grohl
writing college advertising
Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock. David Ogilvy
writing thinking people
People who think well, write well
writing lucky winner
Repeat your winners. If you are lucky enough to write a good advertisement, repeat it until it stops selling. Scores of good advertisements have been discarded before they lost their potency.
writing way
Write the way you talk. Naturally.
writing men agency
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
writing want moments
I want to write for history, not for the moment. David Maraniss
writing acceptable
The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true. David Mamet
writing plot hard
It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.
writing play long
A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.
writing thinking secret
I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.
writing fighting thinking
I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.
writing illustration stories
Once I have the story in my head, I write it down. The illustrations usually come last. Dav Pilkey
writing thinking hands
When you have that first flash of what you think is going to be a great idea-from the mouth, from the hands-that's an amazing feeling. I don't think anything's quite as good as that. Daryl Hall
writing
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself. Dario Argento
writing want one-thing
One thing that I don't ever want to do is write something I don't love. Danielle Trussoni
writing my-favorite pastime
My favorite pastime is to write. Danny Bonaduce
writing language states
I write in English because I was raised in the States and educated in this language. Daniel Alarcon
writing thinking discipline
I have to really think hard about how to structure sentences, and do more mapping when I sit down to write, so it does impose a certain discipline, intellectual and linguistic.
writing opposites practice
I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter. Dani Shapiro
writing garbage-cans house
My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.
writing alive wells
I never feel so alive as when I'm writing and the work is going well.
writing inspire way
Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.
writing practice sitting-down
Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.
writing persistence rejection
The writing life requires courage, patience, persistence, empathy, openness, and the ability to deal with rejection. It requires the willingness to be alone with oneself. To be gentle with oneself. To look at the world without blinders on. To observe and withstand what one sees. To be disciplined, and at the same time, take risks. To be willing to fail - not just once, but again and again, over the course of a lifetime.
writing thinking role-models
I know that people look at my life and ask, "How can I achieve some of those things?" So, I suppose in that sense, yes, I'm a role model. But I try to think of myself more as a mentor, as somebody who I hope young people feel comfortable approaching or writing to. Condoleezza Rice
written
When I die Dublin will be written in my heart. James Joyce
writer
I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour. John Irving
writing stuff bigs
The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s. Colin Baker
writing today garbage
I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors. Cleveland Amory
writing make-sense
I write to make sense of things that dont make sense to me. Daphne Gottlieb
writing inspired terrified
No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published. Dan Simmons