Quotes about writ
writing order three
I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do not go dutifully from one page to the next, in consecutive order; no, I pick out a bit here and a bit there, till I have filled all the gaps on paper. This is why I like writing my stories and novels on index cards, numbering them later when the whole set is complete. Every card is rewritten many times. Vladimir Nabokov
writing sheep reader
Readers are not sheep, and not every pen tempts them.
writing men self
a man who has decided upon self-destruction is far removed from mundane affairs, and to sit down and write his will would be, at that moment, an act just as absurd as winding up one’s watch, since together with the man, the whole world is destroyed; the last letter is instantly reduced to dust and, with it, all the postmen; and like smoke, vanishes the estate bequeathed to a nonexistent progeny.
writing ambitious rough-drafts
Only ambitious nonentities and hearty mediocrities exhibit their rough drafts. It's like passing around samples of sputum.
writing sitting-still reactions
It is a singular reaction, this sitting still and writing, writing, writing, or ruminating at length, which is much the same, really.
writing men two
Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.
writing grows tumors
The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.
writing revision erasers
I have rewritten — often several times — every word I have ever published. My pencils outlast their erasers.
writing blank-mind feelings
The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
writing assuming situation
If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her. Yoko Ono
writing firefighter shows
I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in. Yancy Butler
writing cards looks
I write down inspirational things on cards that I keep in my bag and look at during the round. Yani Tseng
writing thinking letters
When one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll. Yamamoto Tsunetomo
writing fiction genre
If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that. Yann Martel
writing way sometimes
I am not a particularly natural writer. I am not a person who can write in paragraphs the way some writers do. For me, it's sentence by sentence, sometimes word-by-word. And I revise constantly. It's a very laborious process, but I love doing it.
writing done want
I want to direct films, because I am a painter and a sculptor and I've done a lot of writing. Xander Berkeley
writing artist persons
The artist is always engaged in writing a detailed history of the future because he is the only person aware of the nature of the present. Wyndham Lewis
writing trying different
I'll write down and catalogue all the different devices that are Americana to me, and I try to have a historic depth and breadth and also the things that we do in our time, the type of vamps and chants, things that are available to us. Wynton Marsalis
writing years parent
When I was five years old, my parents gave me a magic chest. I learned to cast spells, although of a childish kind, before I had learned to read and write. Wolfgang Hildesheimer
writing passion cookbook
My passion for writing cookbooks really came from my love of collecting cookbooks. Wolfgang Puck
writing
I write [music] as a sow piddles. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
writing bears instruments
You know that I become quite powerless whenever I am obliged to write for an instrument which I cannot bear.
writing simple perfection
True perfection in all things is no longer known or prized - you must write music that is either so simple a coachman could sing it, or so unintelligble that audiences like it simply because no sane person could understand it.
writing simple emotional
To win applause one must write stuff so simple that a coachman might sing it.
writing thinking forever
When I am at peace with myself . . . then thoughts flow into me most easily and at their best. Where they come from and how - that I cannot say . . . I'd be willing to work forever and forever if I were permitted to write only such music as I want to write and can write - which I myself think good.
writing novel best-things
There're no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it's the best thing. Willow Smith
writing eight years
(Songwriting) It's a gift. It all comes from somewhere. I started out really young, when I was four, five, six, writing poems, before I could play an instrument. I was writing about things when I was eight or 10 years old that I hadn't lived long enough to experience. Willie Nelson
writing
I like myself better when I'm writing regularly.
writing driving highways
When I'm driving the highway by myself is when I write best.
writing eight liberty
The first opinion the Court ever filed has a dissenting opinion. Dissent is a tradition of this Court... When someone is writing for the Court, he hopes to get eight others to agree with him, so many of the majority opinions are rather stultified. William O. Douglas
writing language-words plain-language
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. William Penn
writing two familiar
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new. William Makepeace Thackeray
writing reason poet
The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet. Yehuda Amichai