Quotes about writ
writing ideas down-and
I don't card out my screenplays ever. I just have an idea I just sit down and write I don't edit. Nia Vardalos
writing night awards
I've seen some great write ups and I emailed her the other night because I saw her on an awards show recently. Nia Long
writing
I take my spoken-word stuff extremely seriously because I feel like that's true writing, true lyricism. Nick Cannon
writing want knows
I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really--I just want to. John Ashbery
writing order broken
I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken. John Green
writing doe muggles
If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they're total muggles.
writing home light
I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very difficult to get out of the one mindset and into another one. Cassandra Clare
writing hard-work simple
My colleagues in elementary particle theory in many lands [and I] are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game. I am frequently astonished that it so often results in correct predictions of experimental results. How can it be that writing down a few simple and elegant formulae, like short poems governed by strict rules such as those of the sonnet or the waka, can predict universal regularities of Nature? Murray Gell-Mann
writing trying limited-time
Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way. Julia Cameron
writing path right-thing
To write is to right things. A path will emerge.
writing dark men
Dark hair fell in a sweep over his forehead. He looked like a man who would write vers libre, as indeed he did. P. G. Wodehouse
writing men echoes
It has been well said that an author who expects results from a first novel is in a position similar to that of a man who drops a rose petal down the Grand Canyon of Arizona and listens for the echo.
writing math chance
If you enjoy math and you write novels, it's very rare that you'll get a chance to put your math into a novel. I leapt at the chance. Mark Haddon
writing thinking tone
I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing. Julia Leigh
writing space roles
The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.
writing thinking holocaust
It really made me nervous to write about it [Holocaust] and to approach it, because I was nervous about how to do it respectfully, and I was also thinking about how I could add something new to something that had already been so explored. Molly Antopol
writing fine
That must be fine, for I don't understand a word. Moliere
writing novel invitations
For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance. Mohsin Hamid
writing government important
If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the negative effect of additional government intervention. This is an important reason why many earlier liberals, like Henry Simons, writing at a time when government was small by today's standards, were willing to have government undertake activities that today's liberals would not accept now that government has become so overgrown. Milton Friedman
writing people stories
A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it. Keegan-Michael Key
writing artist resonance
You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear the resonance of an artist who goes into herself. Kathy Mattea
writing gardening magazines
I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it! Ken Thompson
writing challenges easy
The writing is always the easy part, provided I can get the good material. It's the getting of the good material that's a challenge. Mary Roach
writing weapons literature
When I was young, when I started to write, we were totally convinced that literature was a kind of weapon. Mario Vargas Llosa
writing wife ruins
Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife. Mario Puzo
writing people lucky
I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has to be something I completely understand every facet of. Nicholas Stoller
writing tragedy stories
In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy. Nicholas Sparks
writing doors two
Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.
writing greatness men
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it. Oscar Wilde
writing good-intentions intention
Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.
writing technique cases
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it. Leon Trotsky
writing doors land
And they just slam the door. And they don't peek into that land any more. And they forget that teens and tweens are people, absolutely just as much as adults are. And their problems may play out on a smaller scale, but the things they go through are equally as valid as a CEO trying to figure out how to deal with a crisis at work. I just write for teens because I love 'em. Lauren Myracle
writing tired sick
I get so sick and tired of Wikipedia. People write their own crap on there. Larry the Cable Guy