Quotes by Writing A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good. Charles Bukowski writingnightmean I took many notes, more than usual before I sat down and wrote Act One, Scene One. I had perhaps eighty pages of notes. . . . I was so prepared that the script seemed inevitable. It was almost all there. I could almost collate it from my notes. The story line, the rather tenuous plot we have, seemed to work out itself. It was a very helpful way to write, and it wasn't so scary. I wasn't starting with a completely blank page. Charles Busch work-outscarywriting The story of Judith. But one of the reasons I'm doing it is because the roles I've been writing for myself over the past few years have gotten older and older. And I thought, You know, before it's too late, I want to play a sexy, tough young gal again. And I always wanted to do a Biblical epic. So, I'll play a beautiful young widow who saves her people from the Assyrians. Charles Busch sexywritingbeautiful I'm writing the book to a children's musical. I got a note from the producers saying, "Can't you make it campier?" So now, I'm trying to determine the camp sensibility of the average eight year old. Charles Busch writingbookchildren Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say. Charles Caleb Colton justicewritingadd Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ease. Charles Caleb Colton realeditingwriting Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase. Charles Caleb Colton ignorancemistakewriting There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other. Charles Caleb Colton practicewritingthinking All poets pretend to write for immortality, but the whole tribe have no objection to present pay, and present praise. Lord Burleigh is not the only statesman who has thought one hundred pounds too much for a song, though sung by Spenser; although Oliver Goldsmith is the only poet who ever considered himself to have been overpaid. Charles Caleb Colton writingsongpay Perhaps that is nearly the perfection of good writing which is original, but whose truth alone prevents the reader from suspecting that it is so; and which effects that for knowledge which the lens effects for the sunbeam, when it condenses its brightness in order to increase its force. Charles Caleb Colton perfectionwritingorder Some authors write nonsense in a clear style, and others sense in an obscure one; some can reason without being able to persuade, others can persuade without being able to reason; some dive so deep that they descend into darkness, and others soar so high that they give us no light; and some, in a vain attempt to be cutting and dry, give us only that which is cut and dried. We should labor, therefore, to treat with ease of things that are difficult; with familiarity, of things that are novel; and with perspicuity, of things that are profound. Charles Caleb Colton cuttinglightwriting When I meet with any persons who write obscurely or converse confusedly, I am apt to suspect two things; first, that such persons do not understand themselves; and secondly, that they are not worthy of being understood by others. Charles Caleb Colton stylewritingtwo The awkwardness and embarrassment which all feel on beginning to write, when they themselves are the theme, ought to serve as a hint to author's that self is a subject they ought very rarely to descant upon. Charles Caleb Colton hintsselfwriting Men will wrangle for religion, write for it, fight for it, die for it; anything but live for it. Charles Caleb Colton writinginspirationalwar There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon. Charles Caleb Colton kingswritingmen We should have a glorious conflagration, if all who cannot put fire into their works would only consent to put their works into the fire. Charles Caleb Colton fireshould-havewriting With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books are as scarce as good companions... Charles Caleb Colton companionwritingbook The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down. Charles Caleb Colton privacyfaceswriting There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to get sensible men to read it. Charles Caleb Colton threewritingmen Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority. Charles Caleb Colton readingwritingbook«215216217218219220221222223224225»
