Quotes about writ
writing thinking internet
I think the downside of the Internet is that speaking-or writing-has become the point in and of itself. Cate Blanchett
writing talking people
As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right. Catharine Beecher
writing social conviction
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. George Eliot
writing self answers
Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion that you will like to hear from me. You see, I have asked no questions, which are the torture-screws of correspondence. Hence you have nothing to answer.
writing people thanks
People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.
writing errors furniture
All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!
writing thinking interesting
I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions.
writing mind answers
I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.
writing genius
The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them.
writing simple language-words
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
writing italian culture
The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture surveys the forms and uses of epigraphic writing from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. Geoffrey Nunberg
writing crafts may
It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't. Geoffrey S. Fletcher
writing space astronaut
I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.
writing years promise
I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.
writing laughing trying
I've discovered I prefer to prepare a few notes or actually write the speech so I can really hone it down to hopefully be entertaining, try and get a laugh at least by the second line, and then say what you need to say. Geoffrey Rush
writing men space
Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space. Geoffrey Chaucer
writing needs schedules
As a writer and a director, I simply don’t have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight production schedule, Gary Ross
writing thinking artist
Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California. Gary Numan
writing voice different
I write five, six days a week. The thing is capturing the voice. I feel like I've been perfecting one voice - in different iterations, sure, but the Russian-ness has always been the undercurrent. Gary Shteyngart
writing mean personality
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends.
writing heart ifs
Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.
writing way right-now
The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.
writing people subway
People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.
writing breathe immigrants
Asthmatic immigrant learns to breathe by writing.
writing play acting
Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext. Gary Oldman
writing worry long
I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I'm alive and I'm living and I'm experiencing different things every day, the show will always change. Gabriel Iglesias
writing thinking years
People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me, it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.' Gabriel Garcia Marquez
writing want fame
A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
writing moments frightened
All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
writing important young-writers
Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.
writing transparent visible
The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
writing stories levitation
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.
writing journalist
As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.