Quotes about writ
writing humanity
Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English. Cynthia Ozick
writing secret lines
I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.
writing acts-of-courage ifs
If we had to say what writing is, we would have to define it essentially as an act of courage.
writing play lunch
If you let anything infringe on your writing time, it will. And you won't get the writing done. Taking one day off can cost me five days of getting back in the mood. Going out to lunch can cost me anywhere from five hours to three days. And for me it's not worth it. For my own sense of well-being I have to finish my work before I can play. Danielle Steel
writing people trying
I always try to write about believable people.
writing cake literature
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
writing people idiot
I post probably 5 to 10 times a day in my forum. I have a forum directly related to my blog where I will write my blog and people will disagree with me and call me an idiot so then I will say this is why I wrote that and blah, blah, blah. I spend a lot of time online. Daniel Negreanu
writing bored doe
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else. Cormac McCarthy
writing age barcelona
I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to write. Colm Toibin
writing firsts fountain
I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.
writing people inspire
I felt like I had experienced a lot of things in the first chapter of my life, and I wanted it to inspire and motivate people, so I just started writing. Common
writing waste scripts
I don't like to write any music to a script. Experience has taught me that's generally a waste of time. Cliff Martinez
writing years two
Singer/songwriters spend two or three years making an album, and then it goes up for sale and everybody pirates it and you don't make any money. Whereas, writing a film score you still get presented with a paycheck.
writing cutting waste
For me, the work begins with a rough cut of the film. I can't do much with the script. I've tried to write music to a script prior to seeing the film, but I've found it turns out to be a waste of time.
writing want information
If I remember correctly, a writer is someone who wants to convey information. Language or writing is a code Clifford Geertz
writing research literature
I've often been accused of making anthropology into literature, but anthropology is also field research. Writing is central to it.
writing done ends
I don't write drafts. I write from the beginning to the end, and when it's finished, it's done
writing style academic
I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style
writing ideas sometimes
I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively solitary thing, but I do like coming up with ideas. Colin Hay
writing thinking always-trying
As you get older you don't want to just do the same thing, otherwise there's not much point. I think it's more or less trying to write things that, perhaps, say more by doing less, or you're always trying to refine things, make things a little simpler, a little more essential.
written
We're written off every year, so we're used to it.
written
Why did you want an addendum to what you had already written and signed?
writing thinking years
Philip Larkin didn't write for several years before his life ended. And when he was asked why he didn't write, he said the muse deserted him. It sort of scared me. That's why I think I have no right to assume that some thought is going to come. ... But I think, in my imagination, if it is it, there will probably be something else I'm interested in. Paul Simon
writing parent sensitive
Neither of my parents has been very sensitive about my writing. Robert Morgan
writing ends
Start [writing] as close to the end as possible. Kurt Vonnegut
writing thinking typewriters
Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide whether we can afford to write down this or that. I myself once staged the end of the world on two pieces of paper- at a cost of ...less than a penny, including wear and tear on my typewriter ribbon and the seat of my pants. 'Think of that.
writing symphony waiting
I say the same thing about the death of James Wait. "Oh, well -- he wasn't going to write the Beethoven's Ninth Symphony anyway.
writing dancer competition
Mark Twain was so good with crowds that he became, in competition with singers and dancers and actors and acrobats, one of the most popular performers of his time. It is so unusual, and so psychologically unlikely, too, for a great writer to be a great performer, too....
writing trade sane
This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.
writing thinking people
Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that the only reason they find writing hard: they don't know or care about anything?
writing stories radio
Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
writing should-have giving
Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
writing ideas scratches
Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out.