Best type & writing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“It's good not only to realize that you can't please all of the people all of the time, but that you don't want to. There's a certain type of reader that you don't ever want to write for.”

People Want Writing Certain Realizing Type Reader Please

Author:Dennis Lehane

“I was writing a scene where a guy was choking another guy to death. You can go online and type 'chokeholds' and watch scenes where martial artists choke each other out. You can hear what noises they make when they go unconscious, see how their bodies flop and everything. YouTube is amazing for the more detailed stuff.”

Writing Body Artist Guy Stuff Watches Type Scene Noise Unconscious Online Martial Arts Youtube Choke Other Guys Martial Artist

Author:Daniel H. Wilson

“Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.”

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Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.”

Writing Years Play Would Be School Type Computer Eight Playwright

Author:Gabrielle Zevin

“I've run into more than anything is people who have a belief that they know who you are. Type-casting happens because people actually write you off. "You are in this box. That's all you are, that's everything you are." It's a very de-humanizing experience.”

People Knows Writing Happens Running Belief Type Who You Are Boxes Casting

Author:Chris Carmack

“In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing in me, .. A lot of authors, if their first book is a success, they're terrified to write a second one. But in my case, since the first book wasn't considered a literary book, I was really determined to show people I could do other types of writing.”

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Author:Evelyn Lau

“The work saved me. I clung to it like flotsam in a boiling sea. It was the only solitary sport that I ever played, or was any good at. It felt natural to sit at my computer and type and type some more. For entire minutes, while writing, I could forget the godawful thing that had happened. I could forget that nothing really mattered anymore. Perhaps, if I set my sights low, I could care again about some small thing. I would type a word. One word. Then another. I started to care about the words, then entire sentences.”

Source: Enchanted Evening Barbie and the Second Coming: A Memoir

“If one person sits down at their computer one day and types one word, dose that affect the future? If that one person didn't type that one word, would the future's history be changed? Dose their one word even mean anything? Dose my one (times a lot) word mean anything? Dose that one person's one word even get read-once? If I wasn't sitting here writing my words, would my future be different?”

Ifs Writing Mean Persons Different Changed Type One Day Computer Sitting One Time One Word My Future Dose That One Person

Author:Esther Earl

“Creativity is basically a feminine process. I'm convinced that we have in our soul, everybody, this masculine side and this feminine side. So at the end of the day, you always use this feminine creative energy to write or to do any type of art or creativity. So if I see that my protagonist is feminine, it's not more difficult, no. And even when my protagonist is masculine, I'm writing from using this feminine energy.”

Ifs Writing Art Soul Ends Use Energy Process Difficult Sides Creativity Creative Type Convinced The End Of The Day Feminine Masculine Protagonists Creative Energy Feminine Energy

Author:Paulo Coelho

“If there's a character type I despise, it's the all-capable, all-knowing, physically perfect protagonist. My idea of hell would be to be trapped in a four-hundred page, first-person, first-tense, running monologue with a character like that. I think writers who produce characters along those lines should graduate from high school and move on.”

“Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all, it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English.”

Ifs Giving Writing Ideas Stories Pay Attention Wonderful Talent Type Give Me Plant Bunch Ass Despite Pay Attention Keyboards Leaks Scribbles

Author:Glen Cook

“Nietzsche himself was a great moralist; his writings abound with value judgments about individuals, character types, modes of thinking, and national traits. It is as if he develops immoralist psychology in order to tame his own nature, to keep his own greatest vice in check.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Character Values Order Individual Psychology Type Judgment Vices Checks Traits Moralist

Book:Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

Source: Break-Out from the Crystal Palace: The Anarcho-Psychological Critique: Stirner, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky

“I happen to write by hand. I don't even type.”

Writing Hands Happens Literature Type

Author:John le Carre

“There's always a tension between wanting to write a really concise, instant gratification type song that gets under your skin the first time you hear it, and wanting to really stretch out. I think it's a healthy tension.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Song Type Healthy First Time Skins Instant Tension Gratification Instant Gratification Concise

Author:Andrew Bird

“I was always the type of drug user that I had no moderation. When I was smoking and drinking, I was full on smoking and drinking. And I am also the type of drug user where I do smoke and drink, there's no creativity in terms of my writing process. I would just stare at the paper for hours and nothing would get done.”

Writing Done Process Term Hours Creativity Type Drink Drug Paper Drinking Smoke Staring Smoking Users Moderation Writing Process Smoking And Drinking

Author:Ryan Lewis

“Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.”

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Author:Chad Harbach

“One thing I'd do was put a great writer's book beside the typewriter and... type out a beautiful and moving paragraph... and see those sentences rising up... and... think, 'Someday maybe I can write like that....' It was like a dream of possibilities for my own self. And maybe I began to know that there was no other way for the sentence... to... arouse the same feeling. The someone writing whose words were rising from the typewriter became like a mentor for me.... You shouldn't do it more than a few times because you must get on with your own work.”

Thinking Knows Way Writing I Can Book Self Feelings Dream Beautiful Moving My Own One Thing Possibility Type Sentences Rising Someday Mentor Paragraph Typewriters Great Writers Rising Up

Author:Gina Berriault

“You get attached to the way you write, and I'm attached to notebooks. That's where I really write the plays. Just two or three pages at a time, then I transfer to the typewriter and rewrite while I type.”

Way Writing Two Play Three Type Pages Notebook Transfers Typewriters

Author:Neil Simon

“As a journalist you have to think quickly, you're exposed to all types of people and situations and you've got to synthesize your thoughts in a very clear and concise way and write them down quickly. Those were all things that have proven really useful in my life as a television writer.”

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Author:Frank Spotnitz

“I like big escapist films. It's odd because the type of comedian I am and the things I do when I'm writing and directing myself usually deal with the darker side of the human psyche and excruciating social faux pas. I often deal in taboos and the subjects I do as a stand-up are quite challenging. But my film roles have been much more fun and escapist.”

Writing Humans Has Beens Bigs Film Fun Social Sides Challenges Deals Roles Subjects Type Comedian Odd Taboo Human Psyche Escapists Faux Darker Side Faux Pas

Author:Ricky Gervais

“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.”

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Author:Isaac Asimov

“In any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representative who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron Law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions.”

“While my chosen form of story-writing is obviously a special and perhaps a narrow one, it is none the less a persistent and permanent type of expression, as old as literature itself. There will always be a certain small percentage of persons who feel a burning curiosity about unknown outer space, and a burning desire to escape from the prison-house of the known and the real into those enchanted lands of incredible adventure and infinite possibilities which dreams open up to us, and which things like deep woods, fantastic urban towers, and flaming sunsets momentarily suggest.”

Source: H.P. Lovecraft: The Ultimate Collection (160 Works Including Early Writings, Fiction, Collaborations, Poetry, Essays & Bonus Audiobook Links)

“I wish, in some ways, I was the type of comedian who could do something blistering and topical, but I'm the guy who gets stuck in the revolving door and thinks I should write about that.”

Thinking Way Should Writing Guy Wish Doors Type Stuck Comedian Revolving Revolving Doors

Author:Jim Gaffigan

“When I pretended to be precocious, people started the rumor that I was precocious. When I acted like an idler, rumor had it I was an idler. When I pretended I couldn't write a novel, people said I couldn't write. When I acted like a liar, they called me a liar. When I acted like a rich man, they started the rumor I was rich. When I feigned indifference, they classed me as the indifferent type. But when I inadvertently groaned because I was really in pain, they started the rumor that I was faking suffering. The world is out of joint.”

People Men World Writing Said Pain Suffering Novel Rich Type Indifference Liars Indifferent Joints Rumor Rich Man Idlers Precocious

Author:Osamu Dazai

“Do-gooders are easily overlooked. We're supposed to be soft, touchy-feely types, who wear Birkenstocks, compost everything, and write poetry by candlelight.”

Writing Type Supposed To Be Overlooked Candlelight Compost Touchy Birkenstocks

Author:Nancy Lublin

“The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on your laptop, but you need to have a limber mind and you need to be able to write without judging what you've written, at least right away, and without editing right away.”

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Author:Augusten Burroughs

“What are the characters that I discern most clearly in the so-called Anglo-Saxon type of man? I may answer at once that two stickout above all others. One is his curious and apparently incurable incompetence--his congenital inability to do any difficult thing easily and well, whether it be isolating a bacillus or writing a sonata. The other is his astounding susceptibility to fears and alarms--in short, his hereditary cowardice.... There is no record in history of any Anglo-Saxon nation entering upon any great war without allies.”

Source: Mencken Chrestomathy

“I always write the same way. I always write with a yellow pad and a ballpoint pen on my bed. And then I go and type it up afterwards. I've always done that. Those things become habitual.”

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Author:Woody Allen

“I am drawn to writing books about magic and the supernatural because those are the types of books I like to read. I've written many short stories with realistic settings, and I certainly wouldn't rule out realistic novels in the future!”

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Author:Cassandra Clare

“I think it is harder to write a story that appeals to the intellect. But, when you tie onto one, you can do it quite deeply. It really depends on the type of idea you have to begin with.”

Thinking Writing Ideas Stories Can Do Type Depends Harder Intellect Appeals Ties You Can Do It

Author:Stephen King

“I don't usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships.”

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Book:The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career

Source: The fiddler now upspoke: a collection of Bob Dylan's interviews, press conferences and the like from throughout the masters career

“I like when people question if the characters are really villains or protagonists. These types are very interesting to write about.”

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Author:Jack Higgins

“I've now learned how to do it, I can write anywhere. I'm the type of person that will get a random idea and then I'll have to write it down and then continue on it. It can be anywhere. It doesn't have to be a set place.”

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Author:Alessia Cara

“I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then I type it up because sometimes it's almost illegible, and if I wait, I might not be able to read it the next day.”

Ifs Writing Trying Sometimes Seems Might Able Next Waiting Type Next Day Crossings Paragraph

Author:Paul Auster

“I would like to do a lot more of it, I feel comfortable with it and basically it's all in the writing. I'm not a personality type actor, I need a good script in order to be funny, but it's definitely something that I like doing.”

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Author:Ray Liotta

“I've got a lot of wonderfully talented, creative directors I've worked with in Texas, but the market we're in, they kind of have to write to that. I think we've done some cool, simple spots. I was very comfortable in Texas, and getting ready to push out into national stuff, try to get to that national-type creative, and then I got sidetracked with this stuff.”

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Author:Jackie Earle Haley

“Everything has become so pop-rock oriented that finding a role for a soprano, and finding an audience for a soprano, is tricky. Unless you're dealing with a revival, which is why I do so many revivals - because my specific tone and vocal quality lends itself to that type of writing.”

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Author:Laura Benanti

“The writing of an assay-type poem or a poem investigating perspective isn't an exercise of rational or strategic mind. Poems for me are acts of small or large desperation. They grapple with surfaces too steep to walk in any other way, yet which have to be traveled.”

Way Writing Mind Walks Perspective Type Exercise Surface Rational Traveled Desperation Strategic Steep Investigating

Author:Jane Hirshfield

“Somebody told me I should try writing. Actually, a lot of people tried to get me to try writing, long before I thought I was 'the writing type'.”

People Should Writing Trying Long Type

Author:Karen Walton

“The best results come when people believe in and feel strongly about the music they are playing. Just as composers write for certain types of performers, performers are also looking for certain things.”

People Feels Writing Believe Certain Results Type Performers Composer

Author:Michael Hersch

“I'll write down and catalogue all the different devices that are Americana to me, and I try to have a historic depth and breadth and also the things that we do in our time, the type of vamps and chants, things that are available to us.”

Writing Trying Different Type Down And Depth Available Our Time Devices Historic Breadth Catalogues Americana Vamp

Author:Wynton Marsalis

“The writer is a definite human phenomenon. He is almost a type - as pugilists are a type. He may be a bad writer - an insipid one or a clumsy one - but there is a bug in him that keeps spinning yarns; and that bulges his brow a bit, narrows his jaws, weakens his eyes and gives him girl children instead of boys. Nobody but a writer can write. People who hang around writers for years - as producers did - who are much smarter and have much better taste, never learn to write.”

People Giving Writing Years Humans May Children Eye Girl Bits Boys Type Taste Producers His Eyes Phenomenon Smarter Definite Bugs Spinning Brows Clumsy Insipid Yarn Girl Child

Author:Ben Hecht

“For a creative person there's just as much pleasure in writing an eight-line poem as there is in writing a blockbuster play ... of the old '50s type.”

Writing Persons Play Lines Pleasure Creative Type Eight Creative Person Blockbuster

Author:Tennessee Williams

“I have so many songs, it's ridiculous. I love so many different types of music and tend to write all over the map, style-wise. R&B, rock 'n' roll, screamers, pop, good-time songs.”

Writing Different Song Wise Rocks Style Type Pops Ridiculous Good Times Maps Rock N Roll Different Types Of Music

Author:Taryn Manning

“Life is painful sometimes. It touches everyone, so you may as well try to look for other answers and find peace. So, it is difficult to write those types of things because nobody wants to tell sad stories. I think that I'll always tell stories about human hope. I would love to be able to tell somebody, "It's okay. It's all right. Be a good person." That's what my job is, in life.”

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Author:J.H. Wyman

“I started writing stories when I was 9 or 10. I wrote my first screenplay-type document when I was 14.”

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Author:Cary Fukunaga

“See, I'm not the type of writer that has 400 songs in a suitcase someplace on the shelf. I'm sort of a rise-to-the-occasion-type of writer, so when I know I'm going to record, I get in the mood to write.”

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Author:Luther Vandross

“Whatever job I had, I was always writing like crazy. All I ever liked about offices was being able to type up stories on the computer when no one was looking. I was never paying much attention in meetings because I was usually scribbling bits of my latest stories in the margins of the pad or thinking up names for my characters. This is a problem when you're supposed to be taking minutes of the meeting.”

Thinking Writing Character Stories Problem Able Jobs Names Bits Attention Crazy Minutes Type Office Computer Meetings Supposed To Be Margins Pads

Author:J. K. Rowling

“I don't even own a computer. I write by hand then I type it up on an old manual typewriter. But I cross out a lot - I'm not writing in stone tablets, it's just ink on paper. I don't feel comfortable without a pen or a pencil in my hand. I can't think with my fingers on the keyboard. Words are generated for me by gripping the pen, and pressing the point on the paper.”

Thinking Feels Writing I Can Hands Type Paper Comfortable Computer Stones Crosses Fingers Pens Old Man Pencils Ink Typewriters Manuals Keyboards Gripping Tablets

Author:Paul Auster

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