Quotes About Report Writing

#1. I spent the rest of the workday on routine paperwork, snarling at misplaced files and seething at the stupidity of everyone else's report writing
when did Grammar die?

Jeff Lindsay

#2. Some artists see a gig as an audience worshipping them. I think it is about having a great time together. I have a part as the singer. An audience has a part. Playing a gig doesn't make me high on myself.

Jo Nesbo

#3. Yes, the future certainly looks brighter now. I'm very happy with my group.

Johnny Kidd

#4. With my fucking suave manners and knowitall, eyes, and mind full of fantasy - the Me! that horror that keeps me conscious, in this Hell of Birth & Death

Allen Ginsberg

#5. Lift up yourselves, men, take yourselves out of the mire and hitch your hopes to the very stars themselves. Let no man pull you down, let no man destroy your ambition, because man is but your companion, your equal; man is your brother; he is not your Lord, he is not your sovereign master.

Marcus Garvey

#6. It was odd how Aritomo's life seemed to glance off mine; we were like two leaves falling from a tree, touching each other now and again as they spiraled to the forest floor.

Tan Twan Eng

#7. Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.

Mason Cooley

#8. I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.

Kat Graham

#9. Perhaps all one can really hope for, all I am entitled to, is no more than this: to write it down. To report what I know. So that it will not be possible for any man ever to say again: I knew nothing about it.

Andre Brink

#10. In almost all other professions a man must be able to observe carefully and report accurately what he has seen. Those qualifications are unnecessary for journalists, however, since their job is to write sensational stories that sell newspapers.

Robert Anton Wilson

#11. I propose that every person out of work be required to submit a book report before he or she gets his or her welfare check.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. Most of my fights, I push the pace. I'm the aggressor.

Clay Guida

#13. I loved writing for the school newspaper. I liked to report and interview people, but I really liked to write columns, funny columns.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#14. Reports are more a medium of self-discipline than a way to communicate information. Writing the report is important; reading it often is not.

Andrew S. Grove

#15. I wish that George W. Bush had gone to Vietnam, because he would have seen history in a different light. He would've experienced it in a different light because I don't think he understood the nature of war.

Oliver Stone

#16. Live to create-create to live.

Andria M. Redlin

#17. The effect your readers want is for what they read to trigger in them the sights and sounds and smells of what's happening in the story. They don't want approximations, they don't want a report, they want to experience the story's reality.

Ray Rhamey

#18. I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition.

Dave Barry

#19. She said that her job as a writer of fiction was to report on the human condition, to tel us who we are and what we think and what we do.

Elizabeth Strout

#20. 'It is very small for its age,' said Gnathaena.

Athenaeus

#21. Do not copy my style! The first rule of writing is write about what you know, not what you think you know. So, think about what you've done in your life and write about that.

Jackie Collins

#22. Severe illness isolates those in close contact with it, because it inevitably narrows the focus of concern. To a certain extent this can lead to healing, but not if the circle of concern is so tight that it cannot be broken into, or out of.

Madeleine L'Engle

#23. The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.

Soseki Natsume

#24. I write because it's all I know how to do. Writing is my anchor and my purpose. My life is informed by writing, whether the work is going well or I'm stuck in the hell of writer's block, which I'm happy to report only occurs about once a day.

Sue Grafton

#25. If Satan gave you instructions for writing the book report from Hell, it would closely resemble those of a Ph.D. dissertation.

Tiffany Reisz

#26. The key is to commit crimes so confusing that police feel too stupid to even write a crime report about them.

R. K. Milholland

#27. Do not think that I am not sad, though I laugh.

Bram Stoker

#28. When we talk about reviews, what we are really talking about is just a market report - it's like reading about the new Lexus. You have to know what the guy writing the review cares about to understand his take. Does he like sports cars, or does he like Bentleys?

Mike Nichols

#29. A script arrived, and on the front cover - scrawled really big, as if it were a book report - is 'Django Unchained, written by Quentin Tarantino.' And I thought, 'Well, no art department came up with this; this is Quentin's writing.'

Dennis Christopher

#30. There are times when I myself no longer know whether I said and did the things I report or whether I dreamed them up. Anyway, I always dream true. If I lie a bit now and then it is mainly in the interest of truth.

Henry Miller

#31. People talk differently. You can say some things some places you can't say in other places. But me as a film maker, no words are ever going to be off limits in something I write. As long as people use the words, I'm going to report that.

Dax Shepard