Quotes about writ
writing eye self
Writing is self-taught. Consulting other people only teaches you to depend on their reactions, which may or may not be legitimate. Quit looking for approval ... Learn to evaluate your own work with a dispassionate eye ... the lessons you acquire will be all the more valuable because you've mastered your craft from within. Sue Grafton
writing two brain
I write letters to my right brain all the time. They're just little notes. And right brain, who likes to get little notes from me, will often come through within a day or two.
writing taste pomegranates
We write to taste life twice," Anais Nin wrote, "in the moment and in retrospection. Sue Monk Kidd
writing mail letters
Have you ever written a letter you knew you could never mail but you needed to write it anyway?
writing thinking people
I think many people need, even require, a narrative version of their life. I seem to be one of them. Writing memoir is, in some ways, a work of wholeness.
writing feelings keepers
I've always been a journal-keeper. I've always tried to write about how I'm experiencing life, and my feelings and thoughts.
writing heart talking
I sit in my new room and write everything down. My heart never stops talking.
writing trying want
A lot of time you write out of some unconscious place. I try to trust what is coming and where it wants to take me.
writing stories who-we-are
Stories have to be told or they die, and when they die, we can't remember who we are or why we're here.
writing long people
I'm not one of those people who writes long soliloquies. Steven Zaillian
writing fantasy persons
There is a part of me that has to depend on fantasy, because if you can't be somewhat of a fantasy person, then you can't write Stevie Nicks
writing belief conviction
I write from a thorough conviction that it is the duty of me, and with the belief that, after every drawback and shortcoming, I do my best, all things considered--that is for me, and, so being, the not being listened to by one human creature would, I hope, in nowise affect me. Robert Browning
writing artist people
When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records. Rico Love
writing enough good-enough
I never thought I was good enough actually to write. Ricky Schroder
writing two would-be
The time it would take me to write a screenplay it would take me the time to make two films. I would rather make the movies and I'm a better moviemaker than I a would be writer. Ridley Scott
writing process visceral
The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.
writing ideas blade-runner
Blade Runner was the godfather of all these fantastic movies that occur today. What's frustrating is that we're short of really great writing and great ideas. Blade Runner was full of them.
writing mind
A woman seldom writes her mind but in her postscript Richard Steele
writing skills done
I have met bright students in computer science who have never seen the source code of a large program. They may be good at writing small programs, but they can't begin to learn the different skills of writing large ones if they can't see how others have done it. Richard Stallman
writing justified software
You know, if you were *really* going to starve, you'd be justified in writing proprietary software.
writing names giving
GNU, which stands for Gnu's Not Unix, is the name for the complete Unix-compatible software system which I am writing so that I can give it away free to everyone who can use it.
writing evil trying
If in my lifetime the problem of non-free software is solved, I could perhaps relax and write software again. But I might instead try to help deal with the world's larger problems. Standing up to an evil system is exhilarating, and now I have a taste for it.
writing technology law
While corporations dominate society and write the laws, each advance in technology is an opening for them to further restrict its users.
writing plot fiction
I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot. Richard Hell
writing pieces kind
I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant..Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre. Richard Aldington
writing polite explicit
We're in a chronic debt-deflation. There's no way we can recover unless you write down the debts. And that's what the IMF basically is implying (and it was explicit regarding Greece), but its not spelling it out, because that's not what can be said in polite company.
writing love-is secret-love
Love is easy, and I love writing. Ray Bradbury
writing
Don't talk about it; write.
writing bad-word billions
It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
writing ignorance way
I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.
writing light white
Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.
writing years writing-every-day
I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.
writing failing inspiration-to-write
You fail only if you stop writing.