Quotes about writ
writing people doubt
The people around you are you. They share your history. They can even write it with you. And when you lose one, there's no doubt you lose some of yourself, however they're lost. Danny Wallace
writing thinking ideas
I think if you've got a good idea it will stand out in one of the different mediums. For example, something might happen to me today and it could be something to talk about tomorrow on the radio, or I can write about it, or perhaps it will be best suited to telly.
writing long hills
Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a boat, to be alone. Daphne du Maurier
writing scary firsts
When one is writing a novel in the first person, one must be that person.
writing belief should
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
writing relax exhausted
It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another. Dan Simmons
writing inspired terrified
No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published.
writing thinking people
I treat people who write me the way my friends and I all treat each other when we go to each other for advice, which is sometimes with supreme cruelty. I think that's what helps the advice sink in. If somebody comes at you with both barrels, the first shot opens your head, and the second shot allows the advice to get lodged inside. Dan Savage
writing trying want
When you're a writer, you want to try to avoid cliches. Unfortunately, when you're writing about marriage or family, all cliches seem to apply.
writing people needs
Oftentimes, when people write me 4,000-word letters, I write them back and tell them if their problem's that complicated, they probably need a lawyer or a cop, and not me.
writing people want
You know, my problem is I cant say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.
writing columns
I don't write about my life in my column.
writing rocks built
Writing is the rock on which everything is built. Dan Rather
writing mind actors
Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes. Dan Futterman
writing connections protection
I can write a program that lets you break the copy protection on a music file. But I can't write a program that solders new connections onto a chip for you. Dan Farmer
writing successful wow
You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that! Dan Fogelberg
writing littles talent
I have tried to explore the little talent I have for writing. Cyril Cusack
writing broadway wanted
I wanted to write for Broadway. Cynthia Weil
writing people records
Actually I was writing with people that didn't get records.
writing enough young
I can't seem to write young enough anymore.
writing thinking mature
Even when I think I'm writing really young, they say it's too mature.
writing past done
Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.
writing clothes creative
That's what it is every time you walk into the room to write with someone new. It's like, oh god I have to take my clothes off 'my creative clothes' and let them see all of my flaws.
writing order obsession
I read in order to write. I read out of obsession with writing. Cynthia Ozick
writing humanity
Much of the academy on the humanities side, English departments in particular, no longer write what can pass for normal English.
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 watches world
A great writer created a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out. Cyril Connolly
writing years promise
Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their promise. Promise is like the mediaeval hangman who after settling the noose, pushed his victim off the platform and jumped on his back, his weight acting a drop while his jockeying arms prevented the unfortunate from loosening the rope. When he judged him dead he dropped to the ground.
writing dark purple
When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.
writing stories veins
The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the powers of supply variable, and the reader, with each one he absorbs, grows a little more sophisticated and harder to please, while the novelist, after each one he writes, becomes a little more exhausted.
writing style language
An author arrives at a good style when his language performs what is required of it without shyness.
writing comedy comic
A good comedy's very hard to make, so good comic writing I really enjoy. Colm Meaney