Quotes about writing
writing mean simple
It is hard to write a simple definition of something as varied as hacking, but I think what these activities have in common is playfulness, cleverness, and exploration. Thus, hacking means exploring the limits of what is possible, in a spirit of playful cleverness. Activities that display playful cleverness have "hack value". Richard Stallman
writing islands java
I did write some code in Java once, but that was the island in Indonesia.
writing thinking age
I think at the age of 50, everyone should write their own autobiography. Richard Simmons
writing wrestling way
Writing is the hardest way of earning a living, with the possible exception of wrestling alligators.
writing brain mind
A mind can be overthrown by words; that's the point. What is happening to the brain of a person who uses the passive, who writes, 'Delay should not be allowed to take place' instead of 'Hurry'? The user of the passive verb doesn't want a universe in which responsible agents do their acts. You see? Bad language ultimately is IMMORAL. Richard Mitchell
writing house true-life
I write about life as it exists within houses and on the streets. And there's nothing, hopefully, in any of my characterizations or in any of my plottings or in any of my valuations that doesn't ring true to life. I'm a novelist. I'm not a theoretician. Richard Grossman
writing unique levels
If there is anything unique about my writing it is the way that I combine poetry and prose, not just on the level of having a poem here, prose there, but that it really is a true amalgam.
writing plot fiction
I like writing non-fiction - and when you pick a [non-fiction] subject, it saves you the hassle of coming up with a plot. Richard Hell
writing psychology firsts
I never thought I would write an autobiography, probably because my first novel, Go Now, is really all drawn from my life, even though it's more about the psychology going on.
writing thinking interesting
You're always thinking, "What does that add up to?" You can't really get a handle on it. I was curious. I felt like it would be an interesting challenge for me to write down what I'd seen and done and learned - all the convolutions captured in one item that I could look at and get some grip on what the hell happened.
writing interesting consciousness
Another thing that's good about writing to describe a situation or a state of consciousness is that you can finally get it right. That was my intention, and that's always interesting.
writing years people
I'm not into this memoir craze that's been going on for 20 years now and doesn't seem to ever let up. People just indiscriminately say "memoir" now when it's a person writing about their own life.
writing artist people
Any true musician, true artist, knows that when they're in that point of total artistic creation, whether on stage or in the studio or writing or whatever, that's the closest moment [to creation]. And that's what keeps all these people addicted to getting back to that moment again. Richard Ashcroft
writing pieces kind
I began to write what I called 'rhythms' ie unrhymed pieces with no formal metrical scheme where the rhythm was created by a kind if inner chant..Later I was told I was writing 'free verse' or Vers libre. Richard Aldington
writing paint i-can
I can't write, I can't paint, I don't compose. Richard Attenborough
writing savages conducting
When you're writing something, and you're putting yourself out there, or you're performing and someone comes in and savages that, then of course it feels personal. It doesn't feel like it's just business, because there's no business - it's not like we're conducting business, this anonymous critic and I. It's just that this person is tearing me a new asshole. Michael Ian Black
writing thinking order
I think writing for anybody helps you order your life. It helps you arrange your emotions and your thoughts and it helps to provide perspective.
writing publish
Whatever I write I publish. Because that's where the money is.
writing done debt
Throughout history, the only way of restoring stability is to write down the debts. That is treated now as if it's something that can't be done. But it's the only thing that's going to revive the economy.
writing shrinking debt
Basically, unless you're willing to write down debts and save the economy, you're going to have deflation and a steady drain in purchasing power - that is, shrinking markets.
writing polite explicit
We're in a chronic debt-deflation. There's no way we can recover unless you write down the debts. And that's what the IMF basically is implying (and it was explicit regarding Greece), but its not spelling it out, because that's not what can be said in polite company.
writing drug complicated
The most surprising and rewarding chapter to write was the Butthole Surfers chapter. I'd always thought of them as a bunch of drug-addled reprobates - which maybe they were - but it turned out to be more complicated than that. Michael Azerrad
writing issues trying
I always try to find the truth in a situation. That unvarnished, pure nugget of truth at the core of every issue that I write about. Michael Arrington
writing stuff reader
Write good content about stuff that you love. Readers will find you.
writing honest faster
The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. Ray Bradbury
writing facts rich
We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.
writing years poetry
Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!
writing ideas heard
I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.
writing groove feudalism
If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.
writing given
All of my writing is God-given.
writing important helping
If you're living in your time, you cannot help but to write about the things that are important.
writing reason ifs
I love writing, it's the center of my life. If you don't love what you do, you'd better find something else to love. Otherwise, you don't have a reason for living.
writing exercise scary
Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation.