Quotes about writ
writing thinking people
When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out. N. T. Wright
writing bits personal-experiences
I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit. Miranda Lambert
writing leaving pieces
Writing is about a blank piece of paper and leaving out what’s not supposed to be there. John Prine
writing years looks
Write without pay until someone offers pay. If nobody offers within three years, the candidate may look upon this as a sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for. Mark Twain
writing want satisfaction
The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.
writing men ideas
A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results.
writing play cards
If I'd seen a playwright ever write an' play at the same time, I'd have given 'em more of a chance at cards. Can I get an 'amen?'
writing inconvenience
In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.
writing trying boards
Writing is the easiest thing in the world.... Just try it sometime. I sit up with a pipe in my mouth and a board on my knees and I scribble away.
writing typewriters everyday
Some professional writers write everyday no matter what and perhaps that's the way it should be done, but it's not the way I do it. If I'm not pregnant with words and I'm not in labor with them, I don't even try to bring them forth because they won't be any good anyway. Once I'm ready to deliver, it's like being pregnant. I've got to find a typewriter or a piece of paper. The only words that have ever had any possible value to others seem to have been those words that just had to come out. Marianne Williamson
writing passion pulse
Only write from your own passion, your own truth. That's the only thing you really know about, and anything else leads you away from the pulse.
writing quiet-moments silence
I’ll tell you now. That silence almost beat me. It’s the silence that scares me. It’s the blank page on which I can write my own fears. The spirits of the dead have nothing on it. The dead one tried to show me hell, but it was a pale imitation of the horror I can paint on the darkness in a quiet moment. Mark Lawrence
writing people weapons
An intellectuals weapon is writing, but sometimes people react as if it were a firearm. A writer can do a lot to change the situation, but as far as I know, no dictatorship has fallen because of a sonnet. Mario Benedetti
writing thinking world
I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguays dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.
writing character sometimes
Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself. Marilyn Manson
writing faces dare
I dare you all to write one more thing that you won't say to my face.
writing character healthy
I have a very healthy appetite for good writing and good characters. Having weak writing is my biggest fear. Michael K. Williams
writing thinking comedy
I think comedy is the hardest actual form of writing there is. Michael Hirst
writing men emotional
Jed Diamond is, quite simply, one of the wisest men writing today on the topic of male emotional and physical health. Michael Gurian
writing facts mass
When writing for a mass audience, put a fact in every sentence. Michael Hastings
writing two people
It's much harder to write a script that involves two people in a single location than 20 people in 30 different locations. Michael Haneke
writing roles actors
I like to write for actors I know and with whom I've worked before. You can write to their strengths and weaknesses and write roles that are better suited to them.
writing dark thinking
People expect me to be dark and gloomy, then write that I'm a jolly chap, and after all, that is what I am. I think it's a case of an absolute romantic naivety that there should be a parallel between the work and the artist.
writing iceland play
I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here. Michael Bruce
writing self doubt
It's so easy to get caught up in your own self-doubt when you're writing. It can be so easy to tell yourself, "Who am I kidding?" Michael Cera
writing talking guy
You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to. Michael Caine
writing special looks
What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write; and then you leave it to special effects to make it look good. But comedy, you've got to do some writing.
writing actors comedy
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
writing decision massachusetts
As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports. Merton Miller
writing years effort
When you have been writing for a lot of years, you have to make an effort not to start repeating yourself. It occurred to me that I tended to tread certain ground automatically, because it was comfortable, but that there were areas I avoided automatically because they made me nervous. Merrill Markoe
writing doors people
We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope. Merle Haggard
writing thinking opposites
Sasuke is always in the corner of my mind. Naruto and Sasuke progress as a pair. So when I write about Naruto, I always have to think about Sasuke. They are on opposite sides of the spectrum, like yin and yang. Masashi Kishimoto
writing ifs
Shaw writes as if it were always midday. Mason Cooley