Quotes about writ
writing ill-health despair
William Saroyan I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.
writing thinking sentimental
William Saroyan I don't think my writing is sentimental, although it is a very sentimental thing to be a human being.
writing mean america
William Saroyan Although I write in English, and despite the fact that I'm from America, I consider myself an Armenian writer. The words I use are in English, the surroundings I write about are American, but the soul, which makes me write, is Armenian. This means I am an Armenian writer and deeply love the honor of being a part of the family of Armenian wrtiters.
writing veterinarian knows
William Saroyan I do not know what makes a writer, but it probably isn't happiness.
writing men lazy-man
William Shatner Acting is easier - writing is more creative. The lazy man vies with the industrious.
writing discovery stories
William Shatner You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.
writing humanity way
William McIlvanney Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.
writing years form
William Nicholson When I began to write seriously, 40 years ago now, my chosen form was the novel.
writing dozen great-american
William Nicholson There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.
writing knows not-alone
William Nicholson We write to know we are not alone
writing soul shows
William McFee An Englishman never takes his collar off when he is writing. How can you expect him to show you his soul?
writing sacrifice bird
William Morris Hunt Most of us live for the critic, and he lives on us. He doesn't sacrifice himself. He gets so much a line for writing a criticism. If the birds should read the newspapers, they would all take to changing their notes. The parrots would exchange with the nightingales, and what a farce it would be!
writing connections mars
William J. Clinton Won't it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us?
writing fiction novelists
William Gibson I started writing short fiction very briefly, as I imagine is the case for some novelists.
writing shopping lists
William Gibson I don't begin a novel with a shopping list - the novel becomes my shopping list as I write it.
writing autism known
William Gibson I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing.
writing order stories
William Gibson I don't generate a storyline and then fill it out in the course of writing. The story actually generates in the course of the writing. It's one of the reasons I've never been comfortable doing screenplays, because in order to get the contract for the screenplay, you have to sit down and tell them what's going to happen.
writing lazy fiction
William Gibson I can't do fiction unless I visualize what's going on. When I began to write science fiction, one of the things I found lacking in it was visual specificity. It seemed there was a lot of lazy imagining, a lot of shorthand.
writing overcoming natural
William Gibson You must learn to overcome your very natural and appropriate revulsion for your own work.
writing written
William Gibson I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.
writing would-be fiction
William Gibson When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.
writing ice melting
William Gibson All we really have when we pretend to write about the future is the moment in which we are writing. That's why every imagined future obsoletes like an ice cream melting on the way back from the corner store.
writing people scary
William Gibson I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.
writing levels accepting
Will Champion When you write something it has to hit the level that you accept as being good.
writing editing trying
Will Gluck I never go to the monitor. I just look at the camera monitor and my favorite part of all of the directing, except for the writing and editing of it, is right when we're rolling and they do lines and I'll say "Try this, try this, try this."
writing years lasts
Will Friedle Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds.
writing thinking together
Will Forte I think the advantage we had with "MacGruber" is the speed we had to put it together. We had a such a short period to write the movie and such a post-[production] period, it was almost like the way that the show worked, where everything is happening so fast you have to go with your gut.
writing honest knows
Will Eisner I write about what I know and what I have experienced. This keeps me an "honest" writer.
writing lions necks
Will Cuppy [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.
writing goodness dare
Will Durant Who will dare to write a history of human goodness?
writing men thinking
Whitney Cummings I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the 'Comedy Central Roasts' for a while, and I always wrote the jokes that people assumed the men would write.
writing race interesting
Wesley Morris Everybody brings their thing to their criticism. I bring this wealth of opinions and feeling and knowledge about race and gender and sexuality. I feel like I have it, I may as well express it, and if it's applicable to what I'm writing about and I'm not forcing it, I should try to use it, because it's interesting. It speaks to more than some people.