Quotes about writing
writing dinner enough-time
Sneaking up on it sometimes helps: I've found I can be very productive for an hour before dinner, because there obviously isn't enough time to really do anything, so I can tell myself I'm just screwing around. Michael Crichton
writing stories scripts
I used to write stories and poetry, but for some reason I have it in my head that if I'm going to write, I have to write a script. Melanie Lynskey
writing years perfect
The perfect life would be to have an amazing part every year and to spend all my free time to just write. Melanie Laurent
writing done degrees
I've always enjoyed writing, I graduated with a degree in English; I've done bits of journalism Michael York
writing thinking editors
Chats are so new to newspapers, historically. But they're so incredibly valuable because editors/reporters/columnists get to find out what's on the minds of our readers, what you think we should be writing about, what ticks you off, what makes you happy. Sometimes it can confirm what you think readers are interested in; sometimes it can turn you around 180 degrees. Michael Wilbon
writing affair good-history
The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write. Michel de Montaigne
writing easier indifferent
It is easier to write an indifferent poem than to understand a good one.
writing vanity obvious
There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly.
writing causes doe
Writing does not cause misery. It is born of misery.
writing mad never-quit
I write to keep from going mad from the contradictions I find among mankind - and to work some of those contradictions out for myself.
writing perfection people
An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings and aspects.
writing men every-man
I would have every man write what he knows and no more.
writing essence deeds
It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.
writing hitting common
The vulgar and common esteem is seldom happy in hitting right; and I am much mistaken if, amongst the writings of my time, the worst are not those which have most gained the popular applause.
writing laughing long
Topical-sketch writing were incredibly rational and well reasoned: don't do a joke if the subject doesn't deserve it. An ad hominem attack on someone might get you a cheap laugh, but it doesn't earn you any long-term trust. The biggest rule was: you attack whoever's in power. Don't bring your personal bias to the table. Michael Schur
writing character trying
It's so much easier to write for an actor than for an imaginary character and then try to fit that character to an actor. It doesn't work very often in my experience.
writing helping archaeology
We must learn, and we are gradually learning, how to write history with the help of archaeology.
writing people half
Writing can be a bit like unfolding something...Slowly, the writer reveals what's happening. But that's only half of what's going on. Writers are very cunning people who are not only unfolding and revealing. Just like conjurors and magicians, they are hiding stuff too. Michael Rosen
writing rapper ability
My freestyling ability is nonexistent. I can't even write a verse if I tried to sit anywhere and write one. Being a good rapper is hard to do. I'm a good Rapaport, but that's about it. Michael Rapaport
writing alive want
By the end of the week, if I'm still alive, I get to write whatever I want about it all. Michael Musto
writing orchestra want
There's always a question of duration, there's a question of who the orchestra is. No one is free to write what you want - you collaborate on a film score, and one of the good things is that someone else's work is motivating you. Michael Nyman
writing curiosity world
Curiosity is the best motive for writing: curiosity about the world at large, or about oneself. Michael Korda
writing trying three
I procrastinate in spades. In my defence, I also try to have all other distractions solved before I can concentrate on writing. My small theory is that to write for three hours, you need to feel like you have three days. To write for three days, you need to feel like you've got three weeks, and so on. Markus Zusak
writing my-best-friend tests
Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.
writing skulls giving
You should give it to Max, Liesel. See if you can leave it on the bedside table, like all the other things." Liesel watched him as if he'd gone insane. "How, though?" Lightly, he tapped her skull with his knuckles. "Memorize it. Then write it down for him.
writing pages fists
Just be patient, she told herself, and with the mounting pages, the strength of her writing fist grew.
writing share dump
If ever you've been down in the dumps, hear these iconic authors share with you more than their writing wisdom. Mark Twain
writing too-much bed
You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by.
writing achievement squandering
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement.
writing names knowing
O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame. William Shakespeare
writing financial financial-markets
God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them. Jean-Claude Juncker
writing kids night
A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the Oklahoma City bombing. He told junior that it happened "because they hated too much" For now, let`s accept the premise that one hundred sixty-eight humans died in Oklahoma City because people "hated too much" Now answer these questions if you would be so kind: did a federal sniper shoot Vicki Weaver in the face because he hated too much? Did our government conduct the Tuskegee with syphilis on black soldiers because it hated too much? Jim Goad
writing prose
I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose. Jim Harrison