Quotes about writing
writing mind study
It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
writing plot stories
I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first. Grace Paley
writing dont-lie ifs
Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.
writing lays written
Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before. Georg C. Lichtenberg
writing equipment our-thoughts
Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts. Friedrich Nietzsche
writing two knowing
Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.
writing political choices
My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible. Jessica Valenti
writing relax certain
There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself. Jessica Simpson
writing emotional details
I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later. Jenni Rivera
writing silence sound
I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet. Adriana Trigiani
writing fighting men
All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different. David Gemmell
writing europe stuff
In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff. David Bowie
writing stories process
When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me. David E. Kelley
writing way feels
The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.
writing long junk
Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it. David Eddings
writing vivid-imagination world
I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus. David Baldacci
writing expectations able
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
writing thinking singing
I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut. Dave Grohl
writing college advertising
Claude Hopkins.. maintained that nobody with a college education could write an advertisement addressed to the mass millions. That's absolute poppycock. David Ogilvy
writing thinking people
People who think well, write well
writing lucky winner
Repeat your winners. If you are lucky enough to write a good advertisement, repeat it until it stops selling. Scores of good advertisements have been discarded before they lost their potency.
writing way
Write the way you talk. Naturally.
writing men agency
Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.
writing acceptable
The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true. David Mamet
writing play long
A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.
writing thinking secret
I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.
writing fighting thinking
I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.
writing thinking hands
When you have that first flash of what you think is going to be a great idea-from the mouth, from the hands-that's an amazing feeling. I don't think anything's quite as good as that. Daryl Hall
writing
Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself. Dario Argento
writing opposites practice
I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter. Dani Shapiro
writing garbage-cans house
My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.
writing thinking role-models
I know that people look at my life and ask, "How can I achieve some of those things?" So, I suppose in that sense, yes, I'm a role model. But I try to think of myself more as a mentor, as somebody who I hope young people feel comfortable approaching or writing to. Condoleezza Rice
writing stuff bigs
The standard of writing that I'm getting now from 'Big Finish' compares very favourably with some of the stuff I was doing on screen in the '80s. Colin Baker