Quotes about writing
writing ends please
Write to Please Yourself. When You write to Please Others You end up Pleasing No one. Benjamin Franklin
writing two choices
You have two choices, write about something of significance or do something someone wants to write about.
writing remembrance records
That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing.
writing vulgar
Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar.
writing odds hearing
I’m skeptical of passive learning. If you don’t write down what you’re hearing and learning, what the odds you remember it? Ben Casnocha
writing entrepreneur diaries
I've always loved to write, and I kept a diary of what I thought about my business, being an entrepreneur and other things of interest to me.
writing nervous
Generals who can write always make me nervous. Ben Bradlee
writing thinking acting
My movies are unadorned, they're not particularly fancy, I think they're kind of workmanlike in some ways, focusing on the writing and the acting. Ben Affleck
writing thinking eight
I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of. Barbara Taylor Bradford
writing want pages
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end. Barbara Tuchman
writing essentials elements
An essential element for good writing is a good ear: One must listen to the sound of one's own prose.
writing play wish
I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.' Barbra Streisand
writing winning thinking
There's been no nepotism in my acting artistic life, but I think it's been pretty clear in my writing life. I knew what a pantoum was at age 11 - I knew form - therefore I would win the poetry contest. But I also realized that I would never be a great writer. Aya Cash
writing lines want
I'm good at melody - I'll write the top-line melody and ideal words I want to go with it. But I'm not that good at writing lyrics. I bounce those back and forth with songwriters or someone who can sing. Avicii
writing hard-times writing-music
I have a hard time writing music when I'm on tour.
writing levels lasts
I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it. Axl Rose
writing grandmother iron
In a sense, my grandmother was living in the Iron Age. There was no system of writing among the nomads. Metal artifacts were rare and precious.... The first time she saw a white person my grandmother was in her thirties: she thought this person's skin had burned off. Ayaan Hirsi Ali
writing people realizing
I don't know if people realize how much I tour and how much time I spend writing, but I really enjoy it. Avril Lavigne
writing home piano
Whenever I'm done with an album cycle, I still wanna write music. If I'm bored when I'm at home, which never happens, my first instinct is to go to the piano and bang something out.
writing thinking worry
I'm just coming out and I'm going to clearly be myself - I write what I feel, I never worry what others think.
writing who-i-am years
Now I'm fortunate to have a good band in CA, and play many solo gigs as well. My point is that I stopped playing in bands and played solo for four years, to get back into the groove and pulse of writing and singing and who I am on stage. Arthur Godfrey
writing past men
As an American man of the 1990s writing about a Japanese woman of the 1930s, I needed to cross three cultural divides - man to woman, American to Japanese, and present to past. Arthur Golden
writing simple men
Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.
writing done facts
Beyond the obvious facts that he has at some time done manual labour, that he takes snuff, that he is a Freemason, that he has been in China, and that he has done a considerable amount of writing lately, I can deduce nothing else. Arthur Conan Doyle
writing want copies
If you want to write good copy, you must be where the things are.
writing thinking people
Writing good editorials is chiefly telling the people what they think, not what you think. Arthur Brisbane
writing sadness goal
There is a special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped toward new ends. Arthur C. Clarke
writing thinking answers
I don't pretend we have all the answers. But the questions are certainly worth thinking about.
writing play judging
Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one. Anton Chekhov
writing literature young
It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
writing artist two
Anyone who says the artist's field is all answers and no questions has never done any writing or had any dealings with imageryYou are confusing two concepts: answering the questions and formulating them correctly. Only the latter is required of an author.
writing paper should
A writer should not so much write as embroider on paper; the work should be painstaking, laborious.
writing play theatre
The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard.