Quotes about writ
writing years nuclear
I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear waste. Berkeley Breathed
writing indulge-in people
I don't read the magazines that make things up about people. I know what the truth is. I don't sort of indulge in my own fodder. I don't really care what they write about me. Ashton Kutcher
writing ideas enough
Composing is a slowed-down improvisation; often one cannot write fast enough to keep up with the stream of ideas. Arnold Schoenberg
writing proud way
I owe very, very much to Mozart; and if one studies, for instance, the way in which I write for string quartet, then one cannot deny that I have learned this directly from Mozart. And I am proud of it!
writing cold ifs
If I write that it was a cold day, you can be sure I know it was a cold day because Pepys told us. Antonia Fraser
writing bedtime prison
That is my major concern: writers who are in prison for writing.
writing self-confidence maine
Her imperturbable self-confidence (Duchesse de Maine) caused Madame de Stael to write that the Duchesse believed in herself the same way she believed in God, without explanation or discussion.
writing ideas tomorrow
I have no plans for a future Jemima Shore mystery, but would write one tomorrow if a good idea came to me.
writing thinking order
I think crime writing is my link with trying to preserve a sort of order.
writing long stories
Right now in American writing there is no genre as exciting as memoir - the writer can do anything, as long as it works. It's like the 1920s up in this joint. So, I'd say, experiment with how you tell the story. In the best memoir it's not the what, it's how the writer tells the what - meaning and effect through form. Anthony Swofford
writing men creative
If creative work protects a man against mental illness, it is small wonder that he pursues it with avidity; and even if the state of mind he is seeking to avoid is no more than a mild state of depression or apathy, this still constitutes a cogent reason for engaging in creative work even when it brings no obvious external benefit in its train. Anthony Storr
writing player two
I didn't write any music at all, and then, I remember Jon Anderson being very insistent saying that there were two kinds of musicians: the ones who wrote music and the ones who didn't. And clearly the ones who wrote music were more superior human beings in his mind. So he kind of nudged me and sort of prodded me into it. I picked it up slowly. Then I learned more about chords and harmony and I just kept adding to that. One of the great things about having good players in your band is that you just ask them questions. You can pick up some good information that way. Bill Bruford
writing piano pieces
Second edition of Earthworks I have the more traditional compositional approach, namely I write a piece from the piano.
writing program
I write my programs primarily for myself. Bill Budge
writing hands track
You will be able to program a robot to follow a track on the ground and manipulate a hand. You can also write little programs that will give the robots goals.
writing sick laughing
The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian. Bill Burr
writing paid
I am paid by the word, so I always write the shortest words possible. Bertrand Russell
writing self expression
There are probably seven persons, in all, who really like my work; and they are enough. I should write even if I were the only patient reader, for my aim is merely self-expression. H. P. Lovecraft
writing drug tonight
I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.
writing people ordinary
I could not write about "ordinary people" because I am not in the least interested in them.
writing ideas
I write to cover a frame of ideas. H. G. Wells
writing
After so many deaths I live and write; George Herbert
writing two praise
To write a verse or two is all the praise That I can raise.
writing thinking mind
A mediocre mind thinks it writes divinely; a good mind thinks it writes reasonably. Jean de la Bruyere
writing may kind
Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.
writing men merit
It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.
writing genius mere
It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
writing simple expression
A good author, and one who writes carefully, often discovers that the expression of which he has been in search without being able to discover it, and which he has at last found, is that which was the most simple, the most natural, and which seems as if it ought to have presented itself at once, without effort, to the mind.
writing justice perfection
He who only writes to suit the taste of the age, considers himself more than his writings. We should always aim at perfection, and then posterity will do us that justice which sometimes our contemporaries refuse us.
writing advice pedants
He who will not listen to any advice, nor be corrected in his writings, is a rank pedant.
writing kind knows
What's kind of weird is that when I'm writing I don't know where I'm going to go. Jazmine Sullivan
writing kind curious
As I'm writing it, I'm kind of curious to see what's going to happen. It almost feels like I'm the writer and I'm the listener, too.
writing talent
Talent is like a faucet, while it is open, one must write. Jean Anouilh