Quotes about Writing

I thought, Wow!, ... Here's a historical revelation that will cause the history books to be rewritten. No one's ever heard of a U.S. nuclear test in the Sudan in 1962.

Steven Aftergood

Read, write or dress himself.

Tad Lincoln

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Lawrence Durrell

I still have boxes and boxes of fan mail that I still go through, ... It's really been something that has inspired me to come through it, that people cared enough to write a card and something about their own story that they thought would help me.

Steve Moore

I meant to write about death, only life came breaking in as usual.

Virginia Woolf

The open forum agreement means that students make all the content in the newspaper and the administration does not censor it. That had always been the policy, but we got it in writing.

Patricia Ferrier

He didn't move. We just need to write the move in bright lights and kind of blink it at him.

Ron Hutchins

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

Barbara Taylor Bradford

She couldn't have written a better ending.

David Davidson

When we wrote the strategic plan for 2004-05 it most definitely represented a very enthusiastic undertaking, to say the least. However, we were able to once again, accomplish everything we set out to do, and more importantly, exceed what we originally intended to accomplish.

Steve Bloomberg

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

James Joyce

You can put the most beautiful ad ever created in the most appropriate magazine ever printed but it will never have the impact of a well-written story. I wish we could slash our advertising budget and put all our money in public relations.

Larry White

Most of the time, somebody has a good story and adds the songs to it later. This show seems to be worked from the completely opposite angle. Billy wrote the music and lyrics, and Twyla grabs it and makes the show.

Brendan King

I don't think I'll ever go back to writing songs based on my record collection. Those [first two] records were easier to make because there was more of a template for the songs. They were dictated by what kind of music I was listening to.

Andrew Bird

Around 50 inmates were involved. Tickets were written for inciting riots and participating in a riot. All the prisoners participating have been transferred to higher security prisons.

Tom Tylutki

That mine adversary had written a book.

Bible

By 2009, computers will disappear. Displays will be written directly onto our retinas by devices in our eyeglasses and contact lenses.

Ray Kurzweil

I write a lot about the Bible and integrate my faith into my poems.

Amanda Cunningham

Those whimpering Stateside young people will wake up on the Day of Judgment condemned to worse fates than these demon-fearing Indians, because, having a Bible, they were bored with it - while these never heard of such a thing as writing.

Jim Elliot

The second time around, we will be less theory and more practice, focusing a bit more on the actual hands-on writing experience.

Mimi Belt

The course of life in unpredictable. No one can write his autobiography in advance.

Abraham J. Heschel

I think we're gonna stay for a very long time because we really want to grow older and play different gigs and write our own songs. So we're already dreaming of the future.

Conner Brough

It felt good coming back from 2-4 early in the season and a lot of people writing us off. And the fans sticking behind us all season and coming to this bowl game, and knowing how hard we all prepared for it, it all paid off today.

Stephen Tulloch

What strikes me about that letter is that it was written by a 20-year-old kid, 27. I'm 60 and I couldn't write that.

Paul Dooley

We know we're grown-up guys, and we have families and stuff, but we've taken that as a positive source of art, rather than as a detriment. You know, how we feel about the stuff that we've learned over the lives that we've had, and how we feel about our families. That's where we're writing from, and it's a good thing.

David Crosby

Students forget they can use (the school of their choice) as a reference on how to write the essay.

Justin Doty

Another factor is that in terms of the original compositions, this is our strongest year yet. Everyone wrote a fantastic piece and everyone really had a greater sense of how to write for this band -- not only for this particular instrumentation, but for these particular players. Each year, the reality is getting closer to the ideal of a collective.

Joshua Redman

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

James A. Michener

The opinion of the court of appeals invalidating Ohio's discriminatory voting technology is exceptionally well-written and scholarly. It is a monument to the concept -- fundamental to American democracy -- of the equal right to vote.

Laughlin Mcdonald

And if the audience is moving in that direction, you have to move with them. I'm perfectly capable of doing that; I did it for 15 years before I got a record deal, so I'm having a blast writing these new songs.

Darryl Worley

I'm not sure if that many people are as involved in their pieces as me. I wrote the story for over two years, just creating the story and creating the vision.

Jennifer Myers

Women mystery writers took a genre that before that had been exclusively male and transformed it. The tradition of the male private eye goes all the way back in literature to the lone man on the edge of society with a moral conscience, saving people's lives. In 1977 Marcia Muller wrote the first female sleuth who was a hard-core professional crime solver.

Joanne Dobson

We had just played a sold-out show and it had been a fun night when we heard the news. It brought everything back to reality. He was a brilliant guy. He was an aerospace engineer and an entrepreneur. We were just starting to write new songs two weeks after he died. We were still grieving. So that was naturally a big subject matter for the album.

Brendan Bayliss

This gave us more than 50 percent reduction in hosting cost and also allowed us to build a new Web-hosting environment with virtualization capability. The new technology gave us the capability to rewrite 900 pages of content within five months.

Guru Vasudeva

I write what's given me to write.

Philip Levine

When I found out about it, I couldn't get it out of my head. I started writing and shooting things, and, once they were ready to make the pilots and sales tape, I was very happy to produce it.

Jaime Nelson

I write books to change the world. Perhaps I can only change one little piece of that world. But if I can empower teachers and good citizens to give these children, who are the poorest of the poor, the same opportunity we give our own kids, then I'll feel my life has been worth it.

Jonathan Kozol

Up to now, we'd get a written notification ... Now it will be expedited.

Bram Cohen

Because we feel there was a good-faith argument to make that the statute as written was constitutional, we feel we have an obligation to make that argument if at all possible.

Dan Mullen

It's repugnant to have police officers plea-bargaining the tickets they wrote. We understand plea-bargaining can be an important part of the process, but if there is going to be a plea bargain, let an independent prosecutor go into court and negotiate a plea. The police officer's job is to write the tickets.

Glenn Valle

If something happens in my life that I want to write something about, then I do.

Danielle Treece

Jesus Christ, somebody's already written the words for you. You know what you're going to say.

Andy Richter

I go about composing like a factory worker. I punch in. I believe it's written somewhere "Steve Swallow has to sit uneasily at the piano for ten hours before receiving his next idea," so I sit there as patiently as possible. Eventually, an idea always comes, and then the rest is science.

Steve Swallow

100 Things Guys Need To Know. But much of what is written seems to have escaped a lot of adult males who went through puberty unscathed.

Roger Hammer

I've written six novels and four pieces of nonfiction, so I don't really have a genre these days.

Anne Lamott

And I said, 'You know, we should do your show, and you should write it. Because it's your humor, it's your sensibility. It's not mine.' And I've tried very hard to do his stuff rather than my own.

Robert Altman

No objective analysts, even if they were in favor of outsourcing, would write a report like this.

Ron Hira

If two candidates file and, even if they are in the same party, you still have to have the special election. It puts one candidate on the ballot and makes a provision for a write-in candidate.

Bill Marion

All the ingredients are going to be the same. I think if you're writing from the heart, very often, the subject matter will adjust as you age ... but you try to write the best song you can possibly write. For us, we have the same basic elements that make up the America sound.

Gerry Beckley

It's incompetence. They are encumbered by rules and regulations written by someone who just didn't have a clue.

Ben Morris

He (Smith) was written up under the dangerous animal code. The humane society didn't take any animals ... they decided they were legally in the kennel.

John Crawford

We had suspicions when she was about 3 months old. Then, we watched our pediatrician write, 'Blind' and circle it on her chart. We knew from there she would be a Braille reader.

Jay Seaton

We've stopped writing new business in those companies until we get our capital position squared away.

David Gough

Astonishing, and profoundly depressing, that any mother would write a book containing numerous allegations about her own young daughter.

Peter Asher

I get the advantage of getting the best writing, ... Most people send me their scripts, so it's pretty easy to pick the best writing.

James Burrows

The White House is giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves.

David Letterman

To write simply is as difficult as to be good.

W. Somerset Maugham

I hope I'm at the club next year but that's out of my hands and the decision is up to the board. Everyone wrote us off saying we were too young and we have copped some baggings, but I knew we had the talent.

David Woods

When you say "I wrote a program that crashed Windows," people just stare at you blankly and say "Hey, I got those with the system, for free."

Linus Torvalds

The pass itself, the policy is written on the pass that it's non-transferable and may not be resold.

Lauren Pelletreau

Shauna and I had no office yet. We had to find the equipment for the office, we had to find furniture, start writing grants, contact the IRS about our public charitable status, and get with the state about our tax-exempt status. We ended up going around Methodist Hospital to offices that were vacant at the time to make phone calls.

Mary Alexander

Do you believe that the chief justice has the duty to influence the overall philosophical direction of the court through his personal leadership or through opinion-writing assignments or any other means?

Russell Feingold

So, once I get writing I really try and put five to eight hours a day in my room with a guitar to really try and come up with stuff that feels interesting enough to me to keep it.

Catie Curtis

He's one of the last real western writers. A lot of these films he wrote were mostly westerns.

Tom Copeland

If the company were to continue in the way it is going it is possible it could run into difficulties so we can't write that out -- but frankly it is unlikely.

John Tysoe

We have Republican chairmen writing the details of these bills. And I feel very confident and comfortable that we're going to get a great deal.

Bill Paxon

'Let It Die' is more piano-based, organ-based and percussion-based. Live, the songs are more guitar-based. The record that we're doing right now is really guitar-based. I feel like finally I get to write some parts that I'll be excited to play on tour for this record.

Leslie Feist

It was really a good home for anything that had to do with writing and books. That was our life.

May Waldroup

[September 16, 2005 - In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter , newly hired Casino Royale re-write scribe Paul Haggis dropped some brief but revealing tidbits about the next James Bond installment.] It's going to be good, ... We're trying to reinvent Bond. He's 28: no Q, no gadgets.

Paul Haggis

That song was on the Dirt Band's Acoustic record, ... and in the time that passed between when we wrote it and when the Flatts cut it, what an amazing life that song had… People would come up to all of us writers long before it was this monster hit -- I even had someone in the grocery store -- asking for copies of the lyric because they wanted to get married to it. And that's a wonderful feeling….

Jeff Hanna

When you're a brand new band, there's a tingly sort of feeling you get when you play a song that you just wrote.

Raine Maida

For the most part, my users are not interested in shutting down virus scanning. I want to know more about what's behind the question. Are we talking about virus scanning? People should be written up for that.

Tom Kroll

All these years in the Highlands & Islands, nobody has delved into this area. People have written about it and hinted at the atrocities but we're going to talk about it. We're not going to hold back from the truth.

Alexander Bennett

I'm amazed that you could have the greatest portrait in the United States, of George Washington; you could have the Declaration of Independence desk, the desk on which it was written; you could have the hat that Abraham Lincoln had on the day he died, in buildings that really not only possibly endanger them, but the American people coming to look at them.

Lawrence Small

The study resonated because I was writing at a time when people were making amazing predictions about new technologies, such as computers -- saying they could save us from everything.

Jeffrey Sconce

Anyone nit-picking enough to write a letter of correction to an editor doubtless deserves the error that provoked it.

Alvin Toffler

Bob Hope and Bing Crosby both had writing like that.

Roger Weeks

He began life writing classical music, ... He didn't actually write his first rock 'n roll song until he was 21, whereas he'd been writing classical music since he was 16.

Barry Miles

We just started playing with confidence and believing in ourselves. We've always had the talent and heart, we just needed the confidence. Everybody had written these girls off, but they didn't write themselves off.

Jan Sojourner

Getting even is one reason for writing.

William H. Gass

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they're gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you're going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

Alice Munro

Everything that I believe he wrote, even about my daughter ... was not actual, the way the accident happened or anything. I never heard his name in connection with it.

Marianne Sanders

We're trained to deal with major evacuations, but not with the thought that people might never go home again. We're writing a brand-new book here.

Keith Berger

He's the reason I wrote my book. I thought if Randy Hatch can do it, I can, too. Neither of us are writers, but we knew we had a story to tell.

Lisa Norris

Increasingly, with an RFP, if you have any questions or comments, they have to be made to a single person, and faxed to them in writing. You'd be thrown out of the competition for doing it by phone.

Sean Moore

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.

Nadia Boulanger

There were a lot of people writing us off, who didn't think we should be here. But we're still standing.

Marcellus Sommerville

[Writing the script] started as a way to deal with the overwhelming emotions I started having after my memories of the war were triggered by the 9/11 attacks.

Oscar Torres

It's not autobiographical, ... It is in the sense that anything you write in first person to some extent is autobiographical because you've got to put some of yourself into it. But most of the events in there are from imagination and research.

Paul Curtis

[Honors: At his funeral, Charlie Chaplin read Dreiser's poem,] The Road I Came. ... American writing before and after his time differed almost as much as biology before and after Darwin. He was a man of large originality, of profound feeling and of unshakable courage. All of us who write are better off because he lived, worked and hoped.

Theodore Dreiser

Two or three months ago I decided to devote some energy to literacy. I came to realize that it was a problem in school, with kids getting through school, getting passed along without really learning to read and write.

Larry Dierker

It occurred to me, having written a couple of 600-page tomes, that if you want to say something intricate about something as disorganized, confused, and interconnected as an American city, you want to stay for the whole season on a single story.

David Simon

I would have never done this record if I didn't have the blessing of the rest of the guys, ... We're not, like, on hiatus. We're working. We're very serious about our records, and I know the guys are at home right now writing. Hopefully we are looking at next year for a record.

Mike Shinoda

In writing the story, I took all of Joe's advice except for that 'home run' sequence; I needed a Hollywood-type moment there. It's not out of the realm of possibility, ... but don't count on it.

Tom Batiuk

He was a very quiet guy, unlike the rest of the rabble, ... He had a low-key, wicked sense of humor. I had no idea that he was writing anything until someone called me up and said, 'Frank McCourt's written this amazing book,' which turned out to be 'Angela's Ashes.' .

Pete Hamill

My state of being has been elevated, because I've been exercising, writing songs. I'm in a better frame of mind these days. It feels great -- it's like I see some light. Things make sense to me again.

Brian Wilson

I just want to reiterate that I feel a leader should have a creative and progressive vision. What makes Chilla Vista unique is all the new things I'm bringing in … I'm well versed in financial matters [and] I have experience writing grants.

Jake Lehman

The materials that are now being publicly released are simply an effort to 'try' the case that the OIC could not win in court in an adversarial process. The only good thing about the current OIC report is that it is the final chapter written under an ill-conceived and dangerous statute.

Barry Simon

We never set out to write a better album, it just happened that way. We never write a 'punk' song, we're just a rock band doing what we do.

Ben Windsor

[After the brothers split up as a writing team in 1954, Danny Simon became head writer on] The Colgate Comedy Hour ... Make Room for Daddy.

Danny Simon