Quotes about writing
writing people way
You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way. William Kraft
writing mind trying
When I was 30 or so - by that time I had become an assistant D.A. - I decided I would try to write a novel. To be clear: I did not decide to become a novelist. Honestly, it never crossed my mind that I could actually earn a living as a professional novelist. William Landay
writing personality imagine
Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.
writing matter stories
But if you really love to write and you really love to tell stories and you really love to draw, you just have to keep doing it no matter what anybody says. William Joyce
writing people liberty
I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with. William Least Heat-Moon
writing quests hunts
For me, writing is not a search for explanations but a ramble in quest of what informs a place, a hunt for equivalents.
writing light cast-away
Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away. William Butler Yeats
writing needs bakers
When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.
writing men land
No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.
writing our-words inevitable
Our words must seem to be inevitable.
writing pieces chess
I am not a chess historian - I myself am a piece of chess history, which no one can avoid. I will not write about myself, but I am sure that someone will write... Wilhelm Steinitz
writing ideas psychology
In the course of normal speaking the inhibitory function of the will is continuously directed to bringing the course of ideas and the articulatory movements into harmony with each other. If the expressive movement which which follows the idea is retarded through mechanical causes, as is the case in writing ... such anticipations make their appearance with particular ease. Wilhelm Wundt
writing men vision
Equal interchange of goods and service between buyer and seller is the keynote of tomorrow's business world when the vision of the modern business man awakens him to the wisdom of writing that policy into his code of ethics. Walter Russell
writing men thinking
It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein others pardon no discordance. I think I have no more right to be angry with a man, whose reason has followed up a process different from what mine has, and is satisfied with the result, than with one who has gone to Venice while I am at Siena, and who writes to me that he likes the place. Walter Savage Landor
writing profound looks
Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are; the turbid look the most profound.
writing exercise relevant
Early on, it's good to develop the ability to write. Learning to write is a useful exercise, even if what you're writing about is not that relevant. Walter Gilbert
writing thinking paper
I'm doing my best. I read in the paper that I'm an action director. They always say that, "Action director Walter Hill", if they bother writing about me at all. I think that's fine. I'm happy to do the work. Walter Hill
writing
I get a great high from writing.
writing want directors
I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
writing imagine knows
Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine. Walter Dean Myers
writing stories
I'll never live to write all the stories I have in my head.
writing people want
With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
writing biographies franklin
When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human. Walter Isaacson
writing thinking important
What I think is the most important thing to learn about any instrument is the basics of music. Learn your ABCs before you write a Hemingway novel. Yngwie Malmsteen
writing self trying
I try not get too self-aware when writing lyrics. Win Butler
writing artist careers
A lot of artists write about the same things their whole career.
writing wings imagination
why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a form of mental cowardice, and I long to break free, to let my imagination take wings. It doesn't - yet ... Winifred Holtby
writing creation difficulty
The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.
writing people roles
You look at people like Gena Rowlands, but she had [John] Cassavetes to write these amazing roles for her. Winona Ryder
writing opportunity thinking
I binge-watched this show Damages. Glenn Close and Rose Byrne are so good. Lily Tomlin is in it. You see all these great actors and the writing is terrific. There are a lot of shows like that. And there are all these conversations right now about roles for women and being paid equally and all of that, but I think what it really is, is opportunity.
writing desire publish
I write pretty much every day, but I don't have any desire to publish anything.
writing people acting
I was inspired by lots of people, certainly in acting and in writing and stuff, but I never wanted to be somebody else.
writing tasks enthusiasm
Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time. Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm. Winston Churchill