Quotes by Writing I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world. Ansel Elgort writingsometimesworld Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with. Ansen Dibell writingfallfirsts It is necessary a writing critic should understand how to write. And though every writer is not bound to show himself in the capacity of critic, every writing critic is bound to show himself capable of being a writer; for if he be apparently impotent in this latter kind, he is to be denied all title or character in the other. Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 7th Earl of Shaftesbury titleswritingcharacter Richard Stark writes a harsh and frightening story of criminal warfare and vengeance with economy, understatement and a deadly amoral objectivity-a remarkable addition to the list of the shockers that the French call roman noirs. Anthony Boucher criminalsobjectivitywriting It would be an egregious mistake to ever refer to me in the same breath as most of the people I write about. Anthony Bourdain mistakewritingpeople Writing anything is a treason of sorts. Anthony Bourdain treasonwriting I write quickly with a sense of urgency. I don't edit myself out of existence, meaning I'll try to write 50 or 60 pages before I start rereading, revising and editing. That just helps with my confidence. Anthony Bourdain editingwritingtrying I wanted to write in Kitchenese, the secret language of cooks, instantly recognizable to anyone who has ever dunked french fries for a summer job or suffered under the despotic rule of a tyrannical chef or boobish owner. Anthony Bourdain summerwritingjobs I think it's important if you're going to write a cookbook, it should sound like you talking - it should be things you actually believe, otherwise I'm not interested. Anthony Bourdain writingbelievethinking In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing. Anthony Bourdain collegewritingthinking I'd never done anything useful as far as my writing. Anthony Bourdain donewriting [George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true. Anthony Bourdain worldviewwritinginteresting There's something not normal about you if you're writing a book about yourself, or about anything. And if you're the kind of person who can deal with being recognized by strangers and if that's tolerable or pleasing to you, and not immediately terrifying, that's not normal either. Anthony Bourdain normalwritingbook You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter how good your cameras are, how well it's edited, there's no way the lenses could have captured the moment, and there's no way you will ever be able to write about it and do it justice. Anthony Bourdain camerasjusticewriting Doing graphic novels is cool! It's fun! You get to write something, and then see it visually page by page, panel by panel, working with the artist, you get to see it fleshed out. Anthony Bourdain artistwritingfun I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there. Anthony Bourdain writinginterestingmoving When I was writing 'Kitchen Confidential,' I was in my 40s, I had never paid rent on time, I was 10 years behind on my taxes, I had never owned my own furniture or a car. Anthony Bourdain carwritingyears I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books. Anthony Bourdain writingtryingbook There is, in fact, not much point in writing a novel unless you can show the possibility of moral transformation, or an increase in wisdom, operating in your chief character or characters. Anthony Burgess writingcharacterfacts If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it or not. Anthony Burgess writingsexfiction«93949596979899100101102103»
