Quotes about writ
writing gathering thorns
Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic. Fay Weldon
writing occupation profession
Writers were never meant to be professionals. Writing is not a profession, it is an activity, an essentially amateur occupation. It is what you do when you are not living.
writing style looks
Style is what's there when you look at someone's writing and you know that they wrote it and nobody else did.
writing thinking twelve
If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in. Francine Prose
writing successful artist
Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity. George Orwell
writing strange-places people
The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it. Chris Weitz
writing comedy-writing comedy
Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it. Chris O'Dowd
writing iraq people
I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way. George W. Bush
writing data wells
You cannot write well without data. George V. Higgins
writing style
By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.
writing views giving
From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close and personal, dropping the reader right into the middle of the carnage. That's vivid and visceral, but of necessity chaotic, and it is easy to lose all sense of the battle as a whole. Sometimes I go with the general's point of view instead, looking down from on high, seeing lines and flanks and reserves. That gives a great sense of the tactics, of how the battle is won or lost, but can easily slide into abstraction. George R. R. Martin
writing glasses disease
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass. Gene Tierney
writing hands tasks
I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand. Garth Ennis
writing going-away library
Even now, she wished she could write a note, push it across the table, and go away to her room. But she was no longer a Second Assistant Librarian of the Great Library of the Clayr. Those days were gone, vanished with everything else that had defined her previous existence and identity. Garth Nix
writing want
I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write. Garth Brooks
writing helping
To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it. Gail Tsukiyama
writing thinking ready
Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write. Gail Godwin
writing knows
During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.
writing knowing way
I had decided I wanted to write about food, and I knew the only way to do that is to speak with authority, which meant learning the language and knowing what that experience is like. Gail Simmons
writing past history
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time. Frederick Jackson Turner
writing fiction stranger
Truth maybe stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer. Frederic Raphael
writing godly way
...words are in a way our godly sharing in the work of creation, and the speaking and writing of words is at once the most human and the most holy business we engage in. Frederick Buechner
writing needs done
By and large a good rule for finding out is this: the kind of work God usually calls you to is the kind of work a) that you need most to do and b) the world most needs to have done. If you really get a kick out of your work, you've presumably met requirement a), but if your work is writing TV deodorant commercials, the chances are you've missed requirement b).
writing thinking people
As a journalist you have to think quickly, you're exposed to all types of people and situations and you've got to synthesize your thoughts in a very clear and concise way and write them down quickly. Those were all things that have proven really useful in my life as a television writer. Frank Spotnitz
writing reality order
Thoughts are created in the act of writing. [It is a myth that] you must have something to say in order to write. Reality: You often need to write in order to have anything to say. Thought comes with writing, and writing may never come if it is postponed until we are satisfied that we have something to say...The assertion of write first, see what you had to say later applies to all manifestations of written language, to letters...as well as to diaries and journals Frank Smith
writing ideas too-much
Scarlatti [Kirkpatrick] started writing sonatas when he was 66 and the idea that he ran off 500 or so after he was 66 was just too much for me to resist. It's just great. Frank Stella
writing critics bother
Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good, I know I'm good. I know best about myself, so a critic doesn't anger me. Frank Sinatra
writing different students
When I start my class I ask the students to write their signatures on pieces of paper and put them on a table. I have them look at them, and I point out, "They're all different, aren't they? That's you, that's you, that's you, that's you." Frank Gehry
writing thinking ideas
The writers are writing human beings, and they're writing about the human condition and how difficult it is to function in that condition. I think it's one of the charms of the show, the idea of redemption and working towards becoming better people, for everybody involved. George Dzundza
writing historical endurance
Not only the studying and writing of history but also the honoring of it both represent affirmations of a certain defiant faith a desperate, unreasoning faith, if you will but faith nevertheless in the endurance of this threatened world faith in the total essentiality of historical continuity. George F. Kennan
writing poet pardon
I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets. George Eliot
writing taking-a-break columns
It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written. Ferdinand Mount
writing sick drink
Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to you. Fernando Pessoa