Quotes about writ
writing scratches annoying
The urge to write poetry is like having an itch. When the itch becomes annoying enough, you scratch it. Robert Penn Warren
writing confusion fiction
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life.
writing secret comedy
The secret of writing comedy is to know where it's all going, then get ahead of it.
writing scratches plot
It always seems to someone outside the business that it is very difficult to write for a comedy show because it must be done quickly. Actually, it is much easier to write this humor than to do a joke or a show from scratch, because the audience knows the plot. Just mention what is going on and then deliver the punch line.
writing years giving
I remember when I was younger I used to write in my diary: I want my luck to be spread. “Never give me anything too lucky all at once. I'll take a little luck now and then, but spread it for seventy years. “Now that all of this is happening, I'm sure the rest of my life will be ruined. Robert Pattinson
writing two literature
No human being ever spoke of scenery for above two minutes at a time, which makes me suspect that we hear too much of it in literature. Robert Louis Stevenson
writing sleep men
All I dreamed about Dr. Jekyll was that one man was being pressed into a cabinet, when he swallowed a drug and changed into another being. I awoke and said at once that I had found the missing link for which I had been looking so long, and before I went again to sleep almost every detail of the story, as it stands, was clear to me. Of course, writing it was another thing.
writing doctors mind
When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind.
writing misunderstood understood
Do not write merely to be understood. Write so you cannot possibly be misunderstood.
writing men inscriptions
Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph. Robert Emmet
writing thinking people
It seems a pity, but I do not think that I can write more. For God's sake look after our people. Robert Falcon Scott
writing texas order
One objection I have heard voiced to works of this kind—dealing with Texas—is the amount of gore spilled across the pages. It can not be otherwise. In order to write a realistic and true history of any part of the Southwest, one must narrate such things, even at the risk of monotony. Robert E. Howard
writing men ideas
But the idea of a man making his living by writing seemed, in that hardy environment, so fantastic that even today I am sometimes myself assailed by a feeling of unreality.
writing thinking design
I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It's sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting. Wes Anderson
writing drug use
I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it. Saul Bellow
writing heart long
A writer is in the broadest sense a spokesman of his community. Through him that community comes to know its heart. Without such knowledge, how long can it survive?
writing trying looks
The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context. Sarah Gadon
writing men thinking
It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage. Rod Serling
writing artist editors
The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't. William Faulkner
writing important gestation
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper. Wole Soyinka
writing bad-writing firsts
It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all. Will Shetterly
writing creativity academia
Well, I wanted to be a philosopher, which is the idlest occupation in the world. I wanted to be involved in abstract thought, but because of various problems with the authorities I wasn't able to pull that one off. A lifetime of idleness in academia would have really suited me. So I was thrown out, as it were. Other than that, there seemed no possible idle occupations, so writing . . . although writing isn't exactly idleness. There's an enormous tension between indolence and languor. Will Self
writing thinking opposites
I never attended a creative writing class in my life. I have a horror of them; most writers groups moonlight as support groups for the kind of people who think that writing is therapeutic. Writing is the exact opposite of therapy. Zadie Smith
writing fiction flesh
It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word William H. Gass
writing men thinking
I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away. Walter Lippmann
writing names snow
You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing. Voltaire
writing enemy nouns
The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.
writing voice painting
Writing is the painting of the voice.
writing facts dictionary
The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.
writing hatred literature
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.
writing thinking simplicity
To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain. William Feather
writing concise vigorous
Vigorous writing is concise. William Strunk, Jr.
writing weakness needs
Remember, it is no sign of weakness or defeat that your manuscript ends up in need of major surgery. This is a common occurrence in all writing, and among the best writers.