Quotes About Writing

Reconnaissance memoranda should always be written in the simplest style and be purely descriptive. They should never stray from their objective by introducing extraneous ideas.

All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation-it is the Self-escaping into the open.

To me, the most perfect screenplay ever written will be one word, when you finally reduce it down to that. Until then, writing will be an imperfect form of communication.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication.

I've found myself moved by letters and diaries in archives as well as trashy, summer blockbusters. It's possible to make a connection with any kind of writing - as long as the writing is good.

Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness.

What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader will forget that the medium of communication is language.

This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended.

A computer does not substitute for judgment any more than a pencil substitutes for literacy. But writing without a pencil is no particular advantage.

I'm not a big gadget guy. When I write, I'll do the whole thing by hand, and then I'll put it into the computer.

I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book...on my computer!

I hate it, it is tedious... when I write for my act, it is very improvisational, I write bullet points, I cannot sit in front of a computer; that is not my style.

I'm too old-fashioned to use a computer. I'm too old-fashioned to use a quill.

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.

I've had a lot of fun writing percussion music. It feels quite similar to writing computer music. But I found myself in the role of choreographer in a way, worrying about physical movement and such.

Anything is possible when tackling a blank sheet with ink. It's less distracting because I'm away from my computer and all of its convenient diversions.

Rittner's Computer Law: Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.

The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can.

I really like to write, so I can just relax and think about things and realize things and then try to express it on my computer.

I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.

All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.

Writing is a lot like making soup. My subconscious cooks the idea, but I have to sit down at the computer to pour it out.

I don't really sit at the computer from scratch. I prefer to get my ideas in my fingers and I write longhand first.