Red Smith (Walter Wellesley Smith) Quotes

Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.

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• I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Poetry

• I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.

  

  J. M. G. Le Clezio
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Myself

• I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Trying
  • Character
  • Stop

• I didn't necessarily have a total idea when I was writing the movie of where everything was going. I just wanted to have really realistic dialogue and write like people I knew talked. I tried to keep it very real.

  

  Zach Braff
  • People
  • Writing
  • Real

• You need to understand that a skilled professional songwriter can accelerate your success as an already talented musician. These people are writing every single day, so their craft is really sharp, and it's the best songwriters who consistently get on the radio.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • People
  • Writing
  • Success

• When you're managing a large number of people, you learn that incentives matter tremendously. You really want people to be rewarded for doing the right thing for the customers and the organization.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • People
  • Learn
  • Organization

• Writing anything, it sorta starts the way you'd build a castle at the beach. You're just taking your hands and you're mounting up sand.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Beach

• ...Stevens does not think of inspiration (or whatever you want to call it) as a condition of composition. He too is waiting for the spark from heaven to fall-poets have no choice about this-but he waits writing; and this-other things being equal, when it’s possible, if it’s possible-is the best way for a poet to wait.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Writing
  • Heaven
  • Waiting

• If you like what you are writing, just write. Try to keep going before you stop to take a break. Keep going back before too much time has passed. And just stay with it.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Stop

• I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.

  

  Andrea Dworkin
  • Men
  • Writing

• It's rare that I'm not at work on some sort of craft project. I've often enthused about the need to make things; how it employs a unique set of muscles - physical, intellectual, spiritual - that I can attain a state of flow when making something that I almost never can when writing.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Work
  • Writing
  • Spiritual

• If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing.

  

  Elmore Leonard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Writing

• Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • World
  • Writing
  • Business

• Being an actor started me writing, and that led to directing.

  

  Chris Eigeman
  • Writing

• Without a doubt my mother was an inspiration for my writing. This is true in many ways, but mostly because she is a wonderful storyteller, without even knowing it.

  

  Elizabeth Strout
  • Writing
  • Mother
  • Inspiration

• As an actor, you are in a unique position because you're not only memorizing dialogue but really embodying it. You naturally feel the rhythm of good writing.

  

  Jesse Eisenberg
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Unique

• As an observer, I'm analysing my reactions, I guess, and my thinking; but about the process of writing... I am not very talented at talking about what I do as a writer.

  

  Janet Malcolm
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I enjoy writing for third and fourth graders most of all.

  

  Beverly Cleary
  • Writing

• My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Name
  • Native

• The combined entity Youku Tudou Inc. represents a dominant leader in online video sector in China with the largest user base, most comprehensive content library, most advanced bandwidth infrastructure, and most effective monetization capability.

  

  Victor Koo
  • Leader
  • Library
  • China

• The great thing is that whether we have faith or not, we are by and large very tolerant of people, whatever their particular view.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Great
  • Faith

• When I was doing research on the M.C.s and spending time with these cats, one of the things that struck me and made me realize that I could deliver this world to an audience was their really dark and acute sense of humor.

  

  Kurt Sutter
  • Time
  • World
  • Dark

• A tobacco industry has been a fairly linear and predictable industry. You know what's going to happen every year. You know from time to time you are going to have a tax increase, you are going to have regulatory restriction, but, as it applies to everybody, I think we are doing very well. But now it's much more technology-driven. Competitors other than our traditional competitors can come in, whether legitimate or fly-by-night ones, and you have to anticipate all those things. The whole organization has to gear up to this new reality and these new competitive rules around it.

  

  Andre Calantzopoulos
  • Reality
  • Technology
  • Tax

• Writing is very much like bricklaying. You learn to put one brick on top of another and spread the mortar so thick.

  

  Red Smith
  • Writing
  • Learn
  • Spread