Quotes by Writing Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity. Charles Lamb damnagewriting Lucy: Our teacher wants us to write an essay on praying. Charlie Brown: Praying is important when you wake up at two o'clock in the morning feeling sick from eating something dumb the day before. Lucy: I'll just say we were out of town and I didn't have time to write anything. Charles M. Schulz writingmorningteacher I think anybody who is writing finds he puts a little bit of himself in all of the characters, at least in this kind of a strip. It's the only way that you can survive when you have to do something every day. You have to put yourself, all of your thoughts, all of your observations and everything you know into the strip. Charles M. Schulz writingcharacterthinking I just don't know how to write a love letter. What can you say to a girl that shows you really like her?" "How about, enclosed please find a cookie? Charles M. Schulz cookiesgirlwriting You can't write a term paper before breakfast. Charles M. Schulz term-paperwritingbreakfast Dear IRS, I am writing to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list. Charles M. Schulz listsnameswriting If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons! Charles M. Schulz artistwritingbook It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly a scream pierced the air'. . . . Good writing takes enormous concentration. Charles M. Schulz darkwritingnight The idea of directing was something that I always had in the back of my mind, and writing as well. I began to write screenplays when I was in my 20's. Charles Martin Smith mindwritingideas In a novel, the author gives the leading character intelligence and distinction. Fate goes to less trouble: mediocrities play a part in great events simply from happening to be there. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand fatewritingcharacter Whatever coast he's on, a man should be himself. I don't write in any particular idiom, I write Charles Mingus. Charles Mingus stylewritingmen Just because I'm playing jazz I don't forget about me. I play or write me, the way I feel, through jazz, or whatever. Charles Mingus musicplaywriting What do you think happens to a composer who is sincere and loves to write and has to wait thirty years to have someone play a piece of his music? Charles Mingus expressionwritingthinking But if what interests you are stories of the fantastic, I must warn you that this kind of story demands more art and judgment than is ordinarily imagined. Charles Nodier storieswritingart A word is not the same with one writer as with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket. Charles Peguy pocketstearswriting Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style combined with educational aims. Charles Portis educationalwritinglong My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was the paramount importance of the "West" epitomized by Cincinnati. Charles R. Morris perspectivewestwriting Cloud-flying requires practice, even if you have every modern instrument, and unless you keep calm and collected you will get into trouble after you have been inside a really thick one for a few minutes. In the very early days of aviation, 1912 to be correct, I emerged from a cloud upside down, much to my discomfort, as I didn't know how to get right way up again. I found out somehow, or I wouldn't be writing this. Charles Rumney Samson practicecloudswriting I'm trying my hand at writing. I'm writing a couple of projects for HBO, a half hour comedy and a miniseries. Charles S. Dutton hbocouplewriting When a critic knows what she or he is looking at and writes revealingly about it, it's sublime. Charles Saatchi criticssublimewriting«220221222223224225226227228229230»
