Quotes by Writing Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere. A. A. Milne heart writing ideas This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it. A. A. Milne stuff silly writing Almost anyone can be an author; the business is to collect money and fame from this state of being. A. A. Milne fame success writing My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places. A. A. Milne letters english-grammar writing So perhaps the best thing to do is to stop writing Introductions and get on with the book. A. A. Milne introduction writing book If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble. A. A. Milne play writing history What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it. A. A. Milne cambridge oxford writing For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me. A. A. Milne editing writing long The difficulty in the way of writing a children's play is that Barrie was born too soon. Many people must have felt the same about Shakespeare. We who came later have no chance. What fun to have been Adam, and to have had the whole world of plots and jokes and stories at one's disposal. A. A. Milne writing fun children They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come. A. A. Milne pounds writing way The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning. A. B. Yehoshua process complicated writing Because of a friend, life is a little stronger, fuller, more gracious thing for the friend's existence, whether he be near or far. If the friend is close at hand, that is best; but if he is far away he still is there to think of, to wonder about, to hear from, to write to, to share life and experience with, to serve, to honor, to admire, to love. A. C. Benson writing love life Back in the days when American billboard advertising was in flower [said Hemingway], there were two slogans that I always rated above all others: the old Cremo Cigar ad that proclaimed, Spit Is a Horrid Word-but Worse on the end of Your Cigar, and Drink Schlitz in Brown Bottles and Avoid that Skunk Taste. You don't get creative writing like that any more. A. E. Hotchner flower writing two He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his bed. His portable typewriter was snugged in there and papers were spread along the top of the bookcase on either side of it. He used a reading board for longhand writing. A. E. Hotchner typewriters reading writing Nature, not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write. A. E. Housman sarcastic writing thinking I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way. A. E. van Vogt months writing way It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again. A. E. van Vogt writing years ideas Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact. A. E. van Vogt printed-word writing people I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career. A. J. Jacobs nice careers writing I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn. A. J. Jacobs fans writing years 1234567891011»
