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“The world is full of novels in which characters simply say and do. There are certainly legitimate genres in which this is sufficient. But in real and lasting writing the character is.”

World Writing Real Character Novel Genre Sufficient Lasting Lasting Love

Author:Ruth Park

“Yesterday was Chinese New Year. It's the Year of the Rabbit. And here's how dumb I am. I'm still writing the Year of the Pig on my checks.”

Writing Years Stills Stupidity Yesterday Checks Dumb Chinese New Year Pigs Rabbits

Author:David Letterman

“I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.”

Thinking Writing Years Mind Firsts Children Book Quality Written Pages Blank

Author:Walt Disney

“A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.”

Men Writing Mind Light Criticism

Author:Solomon Ibn Gabirol

Way Writing Use Language Education Labels Phrases Literacy

Author:Lucy Calkins

“Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just make it out to China.”

Knows Needs Writing Two Taxes China Checks Two Things April Deadline

Author:David Letterman

“The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.”

Ifs Men World Writing Doe Done He Man Ought Mere Critics Doers

Author:Theodore Roosevelt

“We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.”

Needs Writing Book Life Is Study Our Lives Speech Open Book

Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

“Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand, and to write for him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.”

Writing Hands Seems Nature Pens Sheer

Book:Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)

“To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.”

Ifs Writing Looks Mean Doe Ideas School Form Certain Three Half Plans Doors Painting Expression Models Draws Remains Drawing Painter Interiors

Author:Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

“Good writing will bring you to places you don't even expect sometimes.”

Writing Sometimes Good Writing

Author:James Gandolfini

“I am asking you all not to be nettled with me for not answering your letter in spanish I read spanish very well but I don't write it. The image of Stanley Dixon sitting and pondering is one of the rewards of sea turtle research, and a thing I shall often sit and ponder.”

Writing Wells Sea Research Sitting Letters Asking Rewards Marine Pondering Turtles Stanley Sea Turtle

Book:So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles

Source: So Excellent a Fishe: A Natural History of Sea Turtles

“. . . you [film critics] always overstress the value of images. You judge films in the first place by their visual impact instead of looking for content. This is a great disservice to the cinema. It is like judging a novel only by the quality of its prose. I was guilty of the same sin when I first started writing for the cinema. . . . Now I feel that only the literary mind can help the movies out of that cul de sac into which they have been driven by mere technicians and artificers.”

Feels Writing Mind Firsts Has Beens Helping Film Values Sin Quality Novel Judging Impact Mere Critics Driven Guilty Crafts Cinema Visuals Prose Technicians Disservice Film Critics

Author:Orson Welles

“Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve.”

Writing Believe Humans May Persons Made Easy Secret Discovery Method Resolve Investigation Ingenuity Epiphany Easy Things Ciphers

Book:Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition

Source: Complete Works Of Edgar Allan Poe: The New Raven Edition

“I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically.”

Thinking Writing Made Facts

Author:James Herriot

“I will write another book if I feel like it.”

Ifs Feels Writing Book

Author:James Herriot

“I like things to be orderly. For seven years I ate at Bob's Big Boy. I would go at 2:30, after the lunch rush. I ate a chocolate shake and four, five, six, seven cups of coffee-with lots of sugar. And there's lots of sugar in that chocolate shake. It's a thick shake. In a silver goblet. I would get a rush from all this sugar, and I would get so many ideas! I would write them on these napkins. It was like I had a desk with paper. All I had to do was remember to bring my pen, but a waitress would give me one if I remembered to return it at the end of my stay. I got a lot of ideas at Bob's.”

“Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.”

Writing Firsts Goal Steps Knowing First Steps Know Yourself

Author:Jewel

“Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three.”

Writing Three Hours Six Pages Eight Satisfied Agony

Author:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it.”

World Feels Writing Today Conditions Comic World Today

Book:Quite Early One Morning

Source: Quite Early One Morning

“I do not think you should read about writing while you are writing.”

Thinking Should Writing

Author:Maxwell Perkins

“Writing, like drawing is an art, and whatever conveys the meaning is justified.”

Writing Art Drawing Justified

Author:Maxwell Perkins

“I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right.”

Writing Hands Left Eating Including Knives Left Hand

Author:Heston Blumenthal

“If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time and a few dollars for materials. If, however, I want to produce a motion picture I have to go out and raise a million dollars!”

Ifs Want Writing Art Millions Produce Painting Materials Raises Dollars Pursue My Time Sculpture Million Dollars Motion Pictures

Author:Orson Welles

“What is the best way to write? Each of us has to discover her own way by writing. Writing teaches writing. No one can tell you your own secret.”

Way Writing Secret Teach Best Way

Book:One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers

Source: One Continuous Mistake: Four Noble Truths for Writers

“I can write all the way through the morning, when my mind is clear, and there are no distractions.”

Way Writing Mind I Can Morning Clear Distraction

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.”

Feels Writing Book Versions Writing A Book

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.”

Writing Firsts Wanted Beautiful Fiction College Sentences Writing Fiction

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“As an editor, I read Charlotte Rogan's amazing debut novel, 'The Lifeboat,' when it was still in manuscript. I read it in one night, and I really wanted my company to publish it, but we lost it to another house. It's such a wonderful combination of beautiful writing and suspenseful storytelling.”

Writing Stills Wanted Beautiful Night House Lost Company Novel Wonderful Storytelling Combination Editors Publish One Night Manuscripts Debut Beautiful Writing Charlotte Lifeboats

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day.”

Writing Wells College Consequence Details Admire Daily Life Capture Smallest Virginia Woolf

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“I left my job in the fall, and now I can set my life up around writing instead of squeezing writing into my day; it's amazing to have that time, and I feel very lucky.”

Feels Writing I Can Jobs Fall Left Lucky Squeezing

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.”

Needs Feels Writing Play Moving Form Next Process Sentences Satisfying Editing Puzzles Edits The Next One One For Me

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“I wake up fairly early every day, by 8, for sure. Sunday is a lighter writing day than the weekdays, but I still wake up and write for about an hour, beginning right around 8. I definitely have coffee first, and then I start writing. I do think it's kind of hard to get the right level of concentration without coffee.”

Thinking Writing Firsts Kind Stills Hard Hours Levels Wake Up Coffee Concentration Sunday Lighters Weekdays

Author:Karen Thompson Walker

“If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is not to write.”

Ifs Way Writing Practice Failing

Author:Gail Sher

“See how God writes history. No technical knowledge is required; only a calm day and a calm mind.”

Writing Mind Calm Calm Mind Technical Knowledge

Book:THE YOSEMITE COLLECTION of John Muir (Illustrated): The Yosemite, Our National Parks, Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park, A Rival of the Yosemite, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Yosemite Glaciers, Yosemite in Winter & Yosemite in Spring

Source: THE YOSEMITE COLLECTION of John Muir (Illustrated): The Yosemite, Our National Parks, Features of the Proposed Yosemite National Park, A Rival of the Yosemite, The Treasures of the Yosemite, Yosemite Glaciers, Yosemite in Winter & Yosemite in Spring

“Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer, when he tried to write of some particular day, he would find in the effort that he could recall exactly how the light fell and how the temperature felt, and all the quality of it. Most people cannot do it. If they can do it, they may never be successful in a pecuniary sense, but that ability is at the bottom of writing, I am sure.”