Quotes about writ
writing cutting thinking
If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts. Put them in order, give them a purpose, use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce. The secret way to do this is to write it down, and then cut out the confusing parts. William Safire
writing mind way
I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is given fingerpaints. Woody Allen
writing wish comedy
I wish I was writing something much more heavy each time I did a film, and that the comedies just occasionally come out. But unfortunately you're stuck with what you're born with.
writing actors alive
I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom. When they improvise, they make it sound alive.
writing thinking people
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters. William Shenstone
writing stories easy
All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy. William Saroyan
writing play way
You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
writing years ideas
I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.
writing humanity way
Writing is a way of sharing our humanity. William McIlvanney
writing connections mars
Won't it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us? William J. Clinton
writing written
I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written. William Gibson
writing lions necks
[Footnote:] Aristotle maintains that the neck of the Lion is composed of a single bone. Aristotle knew nothing at all about Lions, a circumstance which did not prevent him from writing a good deal on the subject. Will Cuppy
writing goodness dare
Who will dare to write a history of human goodness? Will Durant
writing ideas stuff-happens
If I have to write by a certain time, I can pull through, but usually I just let stuff happen, hanging out with comic friends - or bringing a basic idea on stage and seeing if it goes anywhere. Sarah Silverman
writing enemy never-forget
Never forget, the press is the enemy. The establishment is the enemy. The professors are the enemy. Professors are the enemy. Write that on a blackboard 100 times and never forget it. Richard M. Nixon
writing done
Writing is the toughest thing I've ever done.
writing way like-you
Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards. Rian Johnson
writing ideas brilliant
There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up. Raymond E. Feist
writing thinking views
I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me. Richard Russo
writing self views
I was pretty dead set against ever writing an academic novel. It's always been my view that there are already more than enough academic novels and that most of them aren't any good. Most of them are self-conscious and bitter, the work of people who want to settle grudges.
writing mind next
When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while.
writing artist guitar
I play piano and guitar and I do write my own stuff so to a certain extent I know what I want to do in regards to music. But I'm still finding out what kind of music is my favourite kind to listen to, never mind do myself so I've got a lot of time to find out myself and develop myself as an artist. Richard Fleeshman
writing persistence done
Writing is the only thing I've ever done with persistence, except for being married. Richard Ford
writing heart way
Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that
writing home weekend
Been sitting at home all weekend writing for MTV Movie Awards - unfortunately MTV won't let me do my strip routine ala Magic Mike... Rebel Wilson
writing rewriting good-writing
Good writing is essentially rewriting. Roald Dahl
writing stories fifty
By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.
writing two people
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
writing office finished
I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished. Richard Price
writing guitar piano
Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is. Trey Anastasio
writing thinking shows
I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read. Tracy Kidder
writing people want
Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.' Robin Hobb
writing sitting littles
Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.