Quotes about writing
writing sunshine weather
There is something in our minds like sunshine and the weather, which is not under our control. When I write, the best things come to me from I know not where. Georg C. Lichtenberg
writing ideas trying
Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.
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.
writing successful way
The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. Gene Fowler
writing white safety
Mission Control will be perfect. When you leave this meeting today you will go to your office and the first thing you will do there is to write -Tough and Competent- on your blackboards. It will never be erased. Each day when you enter the room these words will remind you of the price paid by Grissom, White, and Chaffee. These words are the price of admission to the ranks of Mission Control. Gene Kranz
writing
I'm a writer. I write not only for a living, I write because I'm a writer. Gary Jennings
writing next lines
Why do I find it hard to write the next line? Gary Kemp
writing
Never put off writing until you are better at it. Gary Henderson
writing heart blood
Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart. Friedrich Nietzsche
writing blood spirit
Of all writings I love only that which is written with blood. Write with blood: and you will discover that blood is spirit.
writing equipment our-thoughts
Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts.
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.