Quotes about writing
writing editors praise
Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome. Christopher Hitchens
writing thinking self
I think I write in a fairly self-confident manner.
writing apologizing forget
Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.
writing eye depth
Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it." Here we have a passage that designates the phenomenological direction I myself pursue. The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold. Gaston Bachelard
writing sound divorced
In writing, you discover interior sonorities in words. Dipthongs sound differently beneath the pen. One hears them with their sounds divorced.
writing want world
The words of the world want to make sentences.
writing texas play
Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its many incarnations and under various leaders, they have demonstrated the highest qualities of musicianship imaginable, plus a willingness to balance their big band tradition with creative exploration. Astounding ensemble work, insightful interpretations of the arrangements, imaginative writing, and above all, a loving attention to musicality . . . these people play beautifully. Gary Burton
writing attention actors
I pay attention to the actors and stuff, but not even that much. I don't pay attention to who's writing. Jason Mewes
writing quality want
To do six to 10 episodes of high-quality writing, and then be able to go direct my own things, and do a movie, if it comes along, sure. I just want to act and do good work. Jason Momoa
writing trying messages
I feel like I write the same album every time but each time I try to convey the message more simply. Jason Mraz
writing self taught
I'm a self-taught musician so how I read music is kind of very weak and I kind of read my own version of tablature, I write my own crappy reminders on what I'm playing.
writing creating fans
My touring isn't about collecting souvenirs and always being on the go. My souvenirs are writing in my journal and creating new music, because that fits easily into my backpack when I'm travelling around the world. It's something that I can share later with fans or with future family members.
writing internet making-time
I would love to blog daily but I have not been making time for it because my internet is very slow. Everyone should make time for writing.
writing inspire
A picture can say 1000 words but it can also inspire you to write 1000 more.
writing editing plain-language
The chief virtue that language can have is clarity. Hippocrates
writing plain-language use
The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.
writing heaven diaries
Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything. When asked if she had a diary. Hillary Clinton
writing learning training
Mathematics is a language. We want scientists to be able to read it, speak it, and write it. But we are are not training them to be grammarians. Herbert Simon
writing skins scar
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. F. Scott Fitzgerald
writing heart eye
Writing is eternal, For therein the dead heart liveth, the clay-cold tongue is eloquent, And the quick eye of the reader is cleared by the reed of the scribe. As a fossil in the rock, or a coin in the mortar of a ruin, So the symbolled thoughts tell of a departed soul: The plastic hand hath its witness in a statue, and exactitude of vision in a picture, And so, the mind, that was among us, in its writings is embalmed.
writing generations literature
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
writing people stories
What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.
writing data research
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
writing cutting epic
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
writing people trying
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.
writing swimming history
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
writing stories chairs
Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.
writing individual type
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find you have created - nothing.
writing tired world
If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired
writing hard
Nothing any good isn't hard.
writing heart interesting
You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell.
writing ideas wish
I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.
writing want facts
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.