Quotes about writing
writing drawing space
Comics is different than writing because when you draw something you are trying to visualize it and you are trying to put yourself in that space. And when you're drawing something, all sorts of associations come up in my mind that I never would have thought of otherwise. Chris Ware
writing thinking stories
I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures.
writing way partners
Write 100 things that you love about your partner. It's another way of keeping yourself in check. It's hard to do. Chris Pirillo
writing government important
We have our own system, ... and journalists in our system are not put in prison for embarrassing the government by revealing things the government might not wish to have revealed. The important thing is that our system, under which journalists can write without fear or favor, should continue. Chris Patten
writing comedy-writing comedy
Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it. Chris O'Dowd
writing thinking self
Because I'm moved in writing to be irrepressible. Writing to you seems like some holy cause, cause there's not enough female irrepressibility written down. I've fused my silence and repression with the entire female gender's silence and repression. I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructive but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world. Chris Kraus
writing age stuff
It takes me ages to write stuff. Chris Lilley
writing australia feels
I feel really qualified to write about Australia.
writing thinking editing
I think Gram did his best work in co-writes. Sometimes when you're working with one other person, it's such a magical thing. You're editing each other and you're trying to create that one spark. Chris Hillman
writing worry albums
One thing, when you're an actor, you finish something and then you have to worry about what the next gig is. When you're a musician, you can always write your own stuff, and I'm working on new stuff for a new album right now. Chris Isaak
writing advice miserable
My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.
writing wrestling live-for-today
If Shakespeare was alive today, he'd be writing wrestling shows. Chris Jericho
writing degrees journalism
I have a journalism degree, but I'd rather be the person who is being written about rather than the person who is writing.
writing thinking years
Undisputed ends when I return to the WWE in 2007. There is already 3 ½ years of material including the 3 best years of my career. Undisputed is going to do even better than A Lion's Tale, there is no reason to not do #3. The material I have for #3 is just as good as the first 2. I still have a few years to go before I write but I would definitely like to write another one. But it is not about the numbers, it is about the quality. If I don't think it would be as good, I won't do it
writing soldier biographies
A virtuoso performance. Scott Thompson’s biography of the soldier statesman Fidel V. Ramos illustrates the fascinating and complex geography of Filipino politics and its relation with the American hegemon. It’s first-rate scholarship and equally first-rate writing.
writing ignorance apathy
I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that they may be lifted from apathy and ignorance. I write because of a compulsion to make something out of the nothing that is my own life.
writing literature
We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.
writing thinking leaving
Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre. F. Scott Fitzgerald
writing intellectual may
I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.
writing waste
A writer wastes nothing.
writing iraq people
I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way. George W. Bush
writing math simple
We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write.
writing data wells
You cannot write well without data. George V. Higgins
writing son ideas
My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also. George Strait
writing firsts notes
In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note. George Shearing
writing men hands
The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius. George Steiner
writing flying trying
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty' George Orwell
writing liberty literature
Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.
writing skins pages
He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.
writing talking mind
Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
writing agony novel
Writing a novel is agony.
writing political historical
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
writing style
By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.