Quotes by category:Writing

My life isn't interesting! It's my mom. You need to write her life and put me in it. I'm a cameo in her life.

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Don't worry about what anyone else thinks - write what you must. by Carl Phillips

Don't worry about what anyone else thinks - write what you must.

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Writing is the basis of all, because creating something that didn't even exist before is like taking an empty canvass. It is a wonderful thing to make something out of nothing. You've got an empty page, you've got an idea, and then you start typing and that is the most thrilling thing of all. And then if it becomes a movie or something else that's a plus, but the original writing of it is what's very exciting.

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Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience. by Carl Reiner

Improvisation is just writing in front of an audience.

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When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I cou... by Carl Reiner

When I found out I could write I was shocked! I didn't know I could write.

found knows writing

You'd only write what you know and what you know is what you do and the people you know. So you'd write about them or the people you have met casually. It's part of your life.

mets writing people

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where... by Carl Reiner

I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"

doe writing book

The action of the child inventing a new game with his playmates; Einstein formulating a theory of relativity; the housewife devising a new sauce for the meat, a young author writing his first novel; all of these are in terms of definition, Creative, and there is no attempt to set them in some order of more or less Creative.

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Writing a novel is like trying to solve a very long mathematical equation. Changing anything can change everything else.

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Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions. by Carl Sagan

Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions.

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Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic.

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Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance. by Carl Sandburg

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.

echoes dance writing

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands... by Carl Sandburg

Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.

carpe-diem work writing

Beware of advice-even this. by Carl Sandburg

Beware of advice-even this.

design writing advice

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight bl... by Carl Sandburg

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.

girl hair writing

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes. by Carl Sandburg

Poetry is a packsack of invisible keepsakes.

invisible poetry writing

All my life I have been trying to learn, to read, to see and hear, and to write. At sixty-five I began my first novel and after the five years, lacking a month, I took to finish it, I was still traveling, still a seeker.

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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

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Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to... by Carl Sandburg

Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air.

air writing animal

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear,... by Carl Sandburg

All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.

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