Quotes about writing
writing thinking
The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. Harlan Coben
writing symphony way
If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies. Gustav Mahler
writing thinking boring
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
writing symphony world
To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.
writing men order
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. Gustave Flaubert
writing thinking
There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more
writing thinking make-you-think
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women
writing calm restraint
Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.
writing one-day shells
One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.
writing sea wade
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
writing hair shining
Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.
writing long talent
Talent is long patience.
writing giving wish
Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.
writing paris giving
Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill. Graydon Carter
writing years two
I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing. Gordon Parks
writing two interesting
It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of". Gordon Lightfoot
writing denver sitting
I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
writing thinking years
I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration. It wasn't a grandiose as you'd think but I did have to to go to Los Angeles to do it and get an understanding of the keyboard because the keyboard became my tool and I used it a lot in transposing and composing. All the flats and time values. I spent a year doing that because in those days you had to be able to write your own music and read sheets.
writing people want
I won't let people write anything they want to about me. Gordon Ramsay
writing editors people
If an editor can only make people angry enough, they will write half his newspaper for him for nothing. Gilbert K. Chesterton
writing good-times easier
It is much easier to write a good Times leading article than a good joke in Punch.
writing men may
Railing in other men may be a crime, But ought to pass for mere instinct in him: Instinct he follows and no further knows, For to write verse with him is to transprose. John Dryden
writing enemy vices
The end of satire is the amendment of vices by correction; and he who writes honestly is no more an enemy to the offender than the physician to the patient when he prescribes harsh remedies.
writing learning wells
Learn to write well, or not to write at all.
writing winning agony
It is in the hard rockpile labour of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing comes in.
writing mirrors vanity
The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.
writing emotional might
I need some kind of emotional stake in it to write my lyrics, assuming that place. It might just be an emotion I understand but am not currently experiencing necessarily. John Mayer
writing autumn fortune
In this autumn of 1919, in which I write, we are at the dead season of our fortunes. John Maynard Keynes
writing wind glory
Economists must leave to Adam Smith alone the glory of the Quarto, must pluck the day, fling pamphlets into the wind, write always sub specie temporis , and achieve immortality by accident, if at all.
writing
Observe, don't imitate. John M. Ford
writing different-universes next
At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe.
writing ideas want
There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves.
writing long memoir
I'm not about to write my memoirs. Not for a long time. John Major