Quotes about writ
writing disease matter
As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him. George Bernard Shaw
writing men people
The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.
writing ignorance editors
The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.
writing tvs paddy
Paddy Chayefksy was writing and it was a time where everybody was happy to be there [on TV]. Gena Rowlands
writing artist giving
Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions. Galen Rowell
writing voice television
The major newspapers simply stopped writing about me, and my voice could no longer be heard on radio or television. Galina Vishnevskaya
writing wish research
But, because my private lectures and domestic pupils are a great hinderance and intteruption of my studies, I wish to live entirely exempt from the former, and in great measure from the latter. ... in short, I should wish to gain my bread from my writings. Galileo Galilei
writing trying fiction
If you don't care about science enough to be interested in it on its own, you shouldn't try to write hard science fiction. You can write like Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison as much as you want. Frederik Pohl
writing people fiction
People as me how I do research for my science fiction. The answer is, I never do any research.
writing thinking people
I was thinking of writing a little foreword saying that history is, after all, based on people's recollections, which change with time.
writing artist generations
In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses. Freeman Dyson
writing quality important
The most important quality any piece of writing can have is doneness. Fred Barnes
writing site
My Web site, everything I write in there is from me. Fred Durst
writing giving long
I want to clear my mind a little bit and give my mind a little bit of time to breathe so I can pinpoint or at least nail down feelings I'm having and that I've had for the last however long. I need to nail them down long enough to actually write about and elaborate on them.
writing flow program
I have never seen an experienced programmer who routinely made detailed flow charts before beginning to write programs. Fred Brooks
writing people understanding
To write prescriptions is easy, but to come to an understanding with people is hard. Franz Kafka
writing way safe
In a way, I was safe writing
writing voice unrest
I wanted to escape the unrest, to shut out the voices around me and within me, so I write.
writing mean insanity
Writing sustains me. But wouldn’t it be better to say it sustains this kind of life? Which doesn't mean life is any better when I don’t write. On the contrary, it is far worse, wholly unbearable, and inevitably ends in madness. This is, of course, only on the assumption that I am a writer even when I don’t write - which is indeed the case; and a non-writing writer is, in fact, a monster courting insanity.
writing want today
Hold fast to the diary from today on! Write regularly! Don't surrender! Even if no salvation should come, I want to be worthy of it every moment.
writing effort incapacity
The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you.
writing insanity monsters
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
writing lawyer persons
A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."
writing men solitude
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.
writing thinking darkness
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
writing technique difficult
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. Erich Auerbach
writing ideas office
In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet. Erich Hoeber
writing thinking should
I am persecuted because of my writings, I think, therefore, that I should write some more. Eric Williams
writing thinking fiction
I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write. Erica Jong
writing knowing beginners
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
writing
It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.
writing people lasts
the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.
writing oxygen giving
We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.