Quotes by Writing Get yourself a notebook and write in it EVERY night for two weeks. Then stop if you can. If you can't, you're a writer. Charles Ghigna notebookwritingnight When you write for children, don't write for children. Charles Ghigna writingchildren STYLE IS NOT HOW YOU WRITE IT IS HOW YOUDO NOT WRITE LIKE ANYONE ELSE Charles Ghigna stylewriting It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery. Charles Hard Townes writingdiscoveryscience One should never criticize his own work except in a fresh and hopeful mood. The self-criticism of a tired mind is suicide. Charles Horton Cooley suicidewritingart In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other. I should like as a matter of curiosity to see and hear for a moment the men whose works I admire; but I should hardly expect to find further intercourse particularly profitable. Charles Horton Cooley writingmenbook I don't write music for sissy ears. Charles Ives musicearswriting I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil. Charles Jencks enlightenmentwritingideas Well I don't write, I attempt to scribble here and there. And no, nothing ever so grand as being published. Charles Keating, Jr. scribbleshere-and-therewriting Great steps in human progress are made by things that don't work the way philosophy thought they should. If things always worked the way they should, you could write the history of the world from now on. But they don't, and it is those deviations from the normal that make human progress. Charles Kettering writingphilosophyscience I feel a passion for what we're trying to do.I mean, why does somebody who's old who's a writer keep writing? Because that's who they are. Charles Koch passionwritingmean I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text. Charles Krauthammer typewritersdarknesswriting What politicians do not understand is that [Ian] Wilmut discovered not so much a technical trick as a new law of nature. We now know that an adult mammalian cell can fire up all the dormant genetic instructions that shut down as it divides and specializes and ages, and thus can become a source of new life. You can outlaw technique; you cannot repeal biology. Charles Krauthammer writinglifescience I envy people who write easily. I enjoy the process, but it's not easeful for me. Charles Krauthammer envywritingpeople I believe that writing is derivative. I think good writing comes from good reading. Charles Kuralt readingwritingbelieve I would love to write something that people would still read 50 or 100 years from now. That comes with growing older, I think. Charles Kuralt writingyearsthinking I could tell you which writer's rhythms I am imitating. It's not exactly plagiarism, it's falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it. Charles Kuralt falling-in-lovewritingtrying TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air. Charles Kuralt hateairwriting I can scarce bring myself to believe, that I am admitted to a familiar correspondence, and all the license of friendship, with a man who writes blank verse like Milton. Charles Lamb writingmenbelieve Summer, as my friend Coleridge waggishly writes, has set in with its usual severity. Charles Lamb usualsummerwriting«219220221222223224225226227228229»
