Quotes about writ
writing one-thing
I am one thing, my writings are another. Friedrich Nietzsche
writing discipline creative
Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom. Jeanette Winterson
writing fiction stories
Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
writing fans bigs
I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again. Jeannette Walls
writing thinking people
One of the many lessons I hope I've learned is how much I underestimated people, their open-mindedness and their willingness to understand. I think, moreover, I underestimated the degree to which everyone has a story. So my advice, for whatever it's worth, is to trust readers, trust the truth and trust the power of storytelling.
writing past men
Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change. Jean-Paul Sartre
writing doe looks
That's what a story must feel like to me. It's not, "I want to write about a gravedigger." But you're walking along and - boop! shovel. "Ok, what does one do with a shovel? Digs a hole. Why? I don't know yet. Dig the hole! Oh, look a body." George Saunders
writing needs produce
When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need.
writing challenges important
I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important. Jeffery Deaver
writing thinking leaving
Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel. Jeffrey Archer
writing discipline way
The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.
writing way life-is
I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
writing thinking temptation
hen, there's such a temptation to just constantly write things that are going to make the fans happy. Sometimes it takes a little bit of unhappiness to make those happy pay-offs work better. That's something that is fascinating to us and I think has really changed the way that stories are told. Jeff Pinkner
writing knowing forever
We just keep making the shows that we love, and the good news is that we can never rest on our laurels, knowing that we're going to be on forever. We're constantly challenged to write the very best story that we can, week in and week out, hoping that that will allow us to keep telling more of them.
writing emotional order
Our audience holds us to an incredibly high standard of continuity and emotional authenticity. We don't toy with that, but oftentimes we write stories, in order to spark debate. We're very determined to always give the answer. We don't want to leave a lot of things open to debate, at the end of the day.
writing fate destiny
My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny. Jeff Probst
writing scripts needs
I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
writing thinking
I could not think without writing. Jean Piaget
writing tablets harvest
Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest.
writing age able
The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself.
writing doe tables
The table I write on I say exists ... meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it, or that some other spirit actually does perceive it. George Berkeley
writing fighting liberty
Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it but the free-thinker alone is truly free.
writing relief stones
It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him. George Bernard Shaw
writing littles publication
If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.
writing men letters
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
writing literature shops
Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.
writing thinking knows
I do not know what I think until I write it.
writing men history
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
writing thinking veteran
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
writing exercise imagination
Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.
writing brass-bands ears
They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.
writing soup down-and
I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.
writing patient operations
Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.