Quotes about writing
writing skills one-day
We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa youthful effervescence which we have now lost. Ralph Waldo Emerson
writing fighting hot
Expediency of literature, reason of literature, lawfulness of writing down a thought, is questioned; much is to say on both sides,and, while the fight waxes hot, thou, dearest scholar, stick to thy foolish task, add a line every hour, and between whiles add a line.
writing looks succeed
Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.
writing men thinking
For no man can write anything who does not think that what he writes is, for the time, the history of the world.
writing thinking may
Who is he that shall control me? Why may not I act and speak and write and think with entire freedom? What am I to the universe, or, the unvierse, what is it to me? Who hath forged the chains of wrong and right, of Opinion and Custom? And must I wear them?
writing men literature
It has come to be practically a sort of rule in literature that a man, having once shown himself capable of original writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion.
writing brain tunes
After you have pumped your brains for thoughts and verses, there is a better poetry hinted in whistling a tune on your walk.
writing looks poetry-is
Poetry being ... when we look from the center outward.
writing causes sentences
A poem, a sentence, causes us to see ourselves. I be, and I see my being, at the same time.
writing heart years
One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day of the year. He only is right who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded by worry, fret and anxiety. Finish every day, and be done with it. You have done what you could.
writing years next-day
The sermon which I write inquisitive of truth is good a year after, but that which is written because a sermon must be writ is musty the next day.
writing men doe
When a man does not write his poetry, it escapes by other vents through him.
writing air poetry
For poetry was all written before time was, and whenever we are so finely organized that we can penetrate into that region where the air is music, we hear those primal warblings, and attempt to write them down, but we lose ever and anon a word, a verse, and substitute something of our own, and thus miswrite the poem.
writing heart optimistic
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety. Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities, no doubt crept in. Forget them as soon as you can, tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely, with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense. This new day is too dear, with its hopes and invitations, to waste a moment on the yesterdays.
writing stolen
All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.
writing acting different
The thing that's very close in the process is writing and acting, not directing. Directing's very different. Sean Penn
writing thinking two
Well, I think that when you direct a movie or write it. And in the case of the two movies I did, I wrote and directed, they occupy a special place for you.
writing years iron
Do that, and the best you can hope for is that people will ignore you. More realistically, you'd be skinned alive, or possibly sentenced to ten year hard labor writing microcode for waffle irons and toaster ovens.
writing thinking stories
If you just write the kinds of stories you think others will want to read, you'll be competing with cartoonists who are far more enthusiastic for that kind of comic than you are, and they'll kick your ass every time. Scott McCloud
writing design tools
If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things. Saul Griffith
writing stories hobbies
I had developed this habit of writing scenarios as a hobby. I would find out which stories had been sold to be made into films and I would write my own treatment and then compare it. Satyajit Ray
writing hands people
When I write an original story I write about people I know first-hand and situations I'm familiar with. I don't write stories about the nineteenth century.
writing trying fiction
One of the paradoxes of writing is that when you write non-fiction everyone tries to prove that it's wrong, and when you publish fiction, everyone tries to see the truth in it. Scarlett Thomas
writing play guy
When I get called in for stuff for Hollywood, I get to be the best friend of the Caucasian leadIf I want to play the main guy, I have found, I have to write it. Lin-Manuel Miranda
writing stories ends
Every fictional thing I wrote gave me strength to write another and another. By the end I wasn't remaining true to anything but the story I wanted to tell. Lily King
writing thinking two
There are very few things I would love to do other than a life of writing, and I think being a singer-songwriter and being an anthropologist are the two other things I can imagine doing.
writing editing feelings
I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.
writing hell novel
Anthropological fieldwork is so much like writing a novel. You don't know what the hell is going on.
writing would-be form
Anthropologists are great at novelistic observations. I would be thrilled if this novel would encourage anthropologists to write what they see in fictional form.
writing murder-mysteries people
You write the facts as you see them, and there isn't a lull with a lot of description. No wonder people like to write about murder mysteries and dead bodies!
writing hard-work pages
For me, writing never gets easier. It's always hard work. It doesn't matter how many words you wrote the day before, or how many novels you've completed in the last decade: every day you start fresh again with that same blank page, or that same blank screen. Lincoln Child
writing thinking funny-things
The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.
writing trying events
I try to write about things, places, events, and phenomena I know about personally. That helps make the novels more genuine.