Quotes about writing
writing historical rich
There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of. Bill Gates
writing discovery joy
Writing is a process of discovering. I could never outline a narrative; that just sounds boring. There's no joy of discovery in what you're doing if that's your strategy. Bob Shacochis
writing years two
And after about two years, I realized that creative writing was not going to help you ace those biological tests. So I switched over to journalism. I didn't graduate with honors, but I did graduate on time and with some doing. Bob Schieffer
writing years two
It was 22 years of work in a row, right up until 1987. Twenty-two years in a row-either on tour, writing an album, or recording an album. It wasn't until 1987 that I was able to take a breath. Bob Seger
writing challenges trying
When I try to write I try to write something different every time. That's the challenge.
writing winter stuff
I write probably 80 percent of my stuff over the winter.
writing feet choreography
Choreography is writing on your feet. Bob Fosse
writing childhood quality
Mozart began his works in childhood and a childlike quality lurked in his compositions until it dawned on him that the Requiem he was writing for s a stranger was his own. Will Durant
writing men evil
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water. William Shakespeare
writing crafts suits
Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.
writing men charity
To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
writing musical three
Work on a good piece of writing proceeds on three levels: a musical one, where it is composed; an architectural one, where it is constructed; and finally, a textile one, where it is woven. Walter Benjamin
writing thinking years
I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think. Charles Kuralt
writing successful sheep
What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature. We now know that an adult mammalian cell can fire up all the dormant genetic instructions that shut down as it divides and specializes and ages, and thus can become a source of new life. You can outlaw technique; you cannot repeal biology. Writing after Wilmut's successful cloning of the sheep, Dolly, that research on the cloning of human beings cannot be suppressed. Charles Krauthammer
writing envy people
I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me.
writing typewriters darkness
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.
writing thinking mysterious
The writing I tend to think of as 'good' is good because it's mysterious. Aimee Bender
writing feelings lovely
Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
writing people kind
I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
writing pages best-work
It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things...
writing interviews warhol
Warhol influenced me because of his writing. If I had never read his writings and interviews, I would never have understood his work. Ai Weiwei
writing alive might
If Shakespeare were alive today, he might be writing on Twitter.
writing political missing
Any suggestion that I'm writing about political operatives because I'm interested in political operatives misses the entire point. Bob Woodward
writing men years
I gave up accounting. I went in for about six months writing ad copy. I was fired from that, and then another guy and I did a kind of poor man's Bob and Ray kind of syndicated radio show. Then I decided to stick it out and see what happened. I'd give it a year, a year became two years, and then two years became three years, and then along came the record album. Bob Newhart
writing miracle planning
Where there is writing- there is a writer Where there is planning- there is a planner Where there is a building- there is a builder Where there is a miracle- there is a God! Bliss Carman
writing
I just like to write and then perform. Bo Burnham
writing thinking ideas
When things [writing] are over, I always think, 'well, I'm never going to do anything again because I have no ideas so I'm going to go be a farmer'. Or else ideas will come and and if not then I become a farmer. Hopefully won't happen.
writing want realizing
Whenever I realize I'm being a goofball, I write it down. When I release the joke onstage, I love watching the effect it has on the audience. No one wants to see someone talk who takes themselves too seriously. Billy Gardell
writing hymns singing
Some of the stuff I'm writing is almost like hymns, some of my first singing and choral experiences were in church, the Church of Christ in Hicksville. Billy Joel
writing goal stuff
I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.
writing bye tonight
If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.
writing blood hot
Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.
writing issues mind
I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.