Quotes about writing
writing might firsts
Part of the work of writing a novel is to uncover the symmetries or connections that make it whole, which might not reveal itself at first. Nicole Krauss
writing thinking race
I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I think most people can tell the difference between fiction and fact. I think that the action of writing about something does not condone it. The best thing I can ever hope to do is provide good questions, and I think I do that. I hope I do. Neil Gaiman
writing may novelists
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.
writing needs stories
The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.
writing thinking long
I was a voracious reader and I could never understand why comics were of any less merit or importance than any other way of writing. I think the thing that keeps me with comics is there's still so much to be done. There's still this huge unplowed field, this huge unexplored wilderness, and as long as I can keep doing new things and coming up with new things, I will.
writing years people
Whereas there are lots of good novels out there; there are a few good movies out there. People have been writing great poems for years, but there aren't a lot of good comics. I like trying to write them.
writing way stories
We have the right, and the obligation, to tell old stories in our own ways, because they are our stories.
writing scripts diagrams
I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of something.
writing iran land
At the time, I was in L.A., just auditioning and hoping to land a part, dramatic or comedic. I started to feel really stagnant, waiting for a part. I was also taking classes at UCB and Groundlings, and at the higher levels, they focus on writing. It was such a relief to be able to write. During those programs, I wrote a one-woman show called Me, Myself, and Iran, and it ended up getting to Tina Fey. She recommended me to audition for SNL, so I got my first of two auditions through her. Nasim Pedrad
writing hard-work people
As Mono matures, people will begin to use it to write desktop components that take advantage of all the hard work thats gone into some of the meatier GNOME libraries, as well as the nifty language features of C#. Nat Friedman
writing dykes stuff
And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes Nas
writing
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say. Nassim Nicholas Taleb
writing people matter
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
writing two lunch
If I ask you to write down the last 4 digits of your social security number, and then take you out to lunch and ask you how many dentists there are in Manhattan, there's going to be a high correlation between those two numbers. What happens is that the number psychologically makes you feel confident.
writing thinking people
When you're writing theology, you have to say everything all the time, otherwise people think you've deliberately missed something out. N. T. Wright
writing perspective people
I am an advocate of one form of the New Perspective. But there are as many new perspectives as there are people writing about it.
writing biblical discipline
I didn't write much until I turned 40. Up until then I felt constrained by a sense of the discipline of New Testament studies and a sense of the ruling elite in theology and biblical studies.
writing research knows
Everything I know, I write about. My only research is what I did. Mort Walker
writing bits personal-experiences
I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit. Miranda Lambert
writing house comforting
My ideal life is just lounging around the house and every once in a while I'll kind of write something, and then I'll leave and eat something and masturbate or whatever - just this very fluid life of comforting myself. Miranda July
writing thinking hypnosis
When I write, I wear earplugs. I don't want to be self-conscious. I don't want to be thinking about the fact that I'm thinking about it. I just want to be in it. It's one element of hypnosis.
writing years dramatic-situations
Too many poets write poems which are only difficult on the surface, difficult because the dramatic situation is easily misunderstood. It's not difficult to write poems that are misunderstood. A drunk, a three-year-old-they are easily misunderstood. What is difficult is being clear and mysterious at the same time. The dramatic situation needs to be as clear in a poem as it is in a piece of good journalism. The why is part of the mystery, but the who, what, where, and when should all be understood. Miller Williams
writing upset
I really want my agent to make sure they write a part in the next Airbender movie for me. I'll be really upset if I don't get to be a waterbender or something. Milla Jovovich
writing typewriters names
An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought. Mignon McLaughlin
writing
Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.
writing pages leafs
You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
writing talent
It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics. Johnny Mercer
writing waste baskets
You must write for the waste basket.
writing years age
I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work. John Woolman
writing thinking hymns
In our whole life melody the music is broken off here and there by rests, and we foolishly think we have come to the end of time. God sends a time of forced leisure, a time of sickness and disappointed plans, and makes a sudden pause in the hymns of our lives, and we lament that our voice must be silent and our part missing in the music which ever goes up to the ear of our Creator. Not without design does God write the music of our lives. Be it ours to learn the time and not be dismayed at the rests. If we look up, God will beat the time for us. John Ruskin
writing reader skip
Say all you have to say in the fewest possible words, or your reader will be sure to skip them; and in the plainest possible words or he will certainly misunderstand them.
writing law genius
There are no laws by which we can write Iliads.
writing thinking able
To be taught to read—what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak—but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think—nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true.