Quotes about writing
writing want position
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read. Catherine the Great
writing eyebrows ifs
If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.
writing fire long
I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the old world looked at a woman alone and immortal and said: she must long to die, I have tried to say: look at her live! Catherynne M. Valente
writing novel ought
Someone ought to write a novel about me,
writing play people
There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that, because plays are about the whole event that they are. . . . I was certainly wanting to write a play about damage - damage to nature and damage to people, both of which there's plenty of about. To that extent, I was writing a play about England now. Caryl Churchill
writing prejudice language
Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved. Casey Miller
writing world wanted
I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly. Carl Honore
writing shining decision
No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these clowns don't read, can't write, and clearly can't add. Carl Hiaasen
writing evil people
The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories. Carl Jung
writing speaks-out tasks
All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out.
writing fate men
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.
writing authority feels
I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority. Callie Khouri
writing people female
We have a lot of women on the staff, obviously. It's a predominantly female writing staff and we hire the best people. It's not like we go we need more women or we need four women directing.
writing thinking television
I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.
writing inappropriate ifs
If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. Calvin Trillin
writing delivery
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
writing self-confidence thinking
I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot.
writing might interest
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
writing inappropriate source
There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. So it sort of selects itself. It has to. And plus, often something that wouldn't be funny at the time is okay to make jokes about later.
writing america may
In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.
writing effort letters
A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend. Billy Strayhorn
writing unique order
In order to play and write, it's unique - you either do one or the other.
writing enjoy
I also write poems, so that is something that I really enjoy. Billy Sherwood
writing wells
So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.
writing years albums
I'm narrating the television series Biography. I'm still involved in my music - I have a new album out. I have an animated project in development. I'm writing a lot of things and you never know if one of them is going to become a six or seven year project. Bill Mumy
writing scripts harder
If you have a good script, that's what gets you involved. It's harder to write a good screenplay than to find something. Bill Murray
writing thinking gambling
I don't think there's an improvised word in the movie. I hope not because I admire writing. Improvising is kind of gambling. It's just that you're standing up. Bill Nighy
writing dissertation
I'm not writing a Ph.D. Dissertation. Bill O'Reilly
writing way serious
The studios don't seem to foster good writing. They're not so interested in that, but they're more interested in what worked most recently. They're definitely very serious about making money, and that's not a wrong thing, but you don't have to make money the same way all the time.
writing talking paper
Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say. Beryl Bainbridge
writing tree woods
You can't write poems about trees when the woods are full of policemen. Bertolt Brecht
writing clothes feelings
I'm in good form, taking no interest in things, neglecting clothes, meals, company, and feeling calm and stable as I write.
writing average long
A word is used "correctly" when the average hearer will be affected by it in the way intended. This is a psychological, not a literary, definition of "correctness". The literary definition would substitute, for the average hearer, a person of high education living a long time ago; the purpose of this definition is to make it difficult to speak or write correctly. Bertrand Russell