Writing Numbers Sayings

#1. Newt spun, making her robe unfurl. "He's my familiar, bought and paid for. I can claim anything of his. Even his life." Al cleared his throat nervously. "That's good to know," he said lightly. "Important safety tip. Rachel, write that down somewhere as lesson number one.

Kim Harrison

#2. I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.

Steven Wright

#3. Passive voice is better than writing out a humongous number and taking the risk that your readers' brains will be numb by the time they get to the verb.

Mignon Fogarty

#4. There's the underlying feeling that writing must be easy, because it's all about putting letters together. That's only true in the same way that programming is all about putting numbers together.

Rhianna Pratchett

#5. There's always things that you know about that nobody else, because everybody's life is different. So you write about what you know. That's number one.

Jackie Collins

#6. I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior ... But maybe, it's that they're dog, and that's what dogs do.

Amy Hempel

#7. Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers.

Neil Gaiman

#8. I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that because it was work that was interesting and had I written more about it, it could have been useful.

Grace Paley

#9. I think a blog is a catalyst for a number of possible kinds of writing besides being its own medium.

Stephen Vincent Benet

#10. One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books.

Meg Rosoff

#11. After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as I did. She has a number of short stories.

Franny Armstrong

#12. It was my intent all along to write a nonjudgmental narrative of Bush's presidency. Along the way, a number of liberal friends of mine expressed disgust that I would spend time on such an endeavor.

Robert Draper

#13. I will always write myself a part. It will never be number one or two on the call sheet, but it will be number five through ten. That way they won't kick you off after you sell it.

Kevin Grevioux

#14. Writing down call numbers with short pencils, searching up and down aisles that would turn dark when the timers on the lights expired. She recalls, visually, certain passages in the books she'd read. Which side of the book, where on the page.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#15. Your character that you create in your writing not only represents who you are, but also represents a number of people who you've met along the way.

Grant Morrison

#16. The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer.

Hugh MacDiarmid

#17. I was hesitant to approach people. I'm socially awkward. But I was working on a number of memorials, and finally it dawned on me: These are memorials to people who wrote, so I should use their writing. That's how I started to quit.

Jenny Holzer

#18. [Writing] is edit, edit, edit. It's almost like getting a boat ready to go to sea. You've still got a countless number of things left to fix, but you've just got to go, "O.K., everybody get on the boat. We're going, ready or not."

Jimmy Buffett

#19. A good writer does not receive anywhere near the number of poison-pen letters that is commonly assumed. Among a hundred jackassesthere are not ten who will admit to being jackasses, and at most one who will put it in writing.

Karl Kraus

#20. In my opinion, it is easier to avoid iambic rhythms, when writing in syllabics, if you create a line or pattern of lines using odd numbers of syllables.

James Fenton

#21. I didn't leave Wall Street because the work was against my nature - I do have a pretty good head for numbers. I left because I had this love for writing.

Chang-rae Lee

#22. In writing and speaking, three is more satisfying than any other number.

Carmine Gallo

#23. The only way to learn to write is to force yourself to produce a certain number of words on a regular basis.

William Zinsser

#24. I am writing a book. I have got the page numbers done.

Stephen Wright

#25. I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also felt successful. That lasted three minutes.

Jacqueline Briskin

#26. The number of lines of code a programmer can write in a fixed period of time is the same independent of the language used.

Fernando J. Corbato

#27. Prime numbers are useful for writing codes and in America they are classed as Military Material and if you find one over 100 digits you have to tell the CIA and they buy it off you for $10,000. But it would not be a very good way of making a living.

Mark Haddon

#28. I'm looking for backing for an unauthorized auto-biography that I am writing. Hopefully, this will sell in such huge numbers that I will be able to sue myself for an extraordinary amount of money and finance the film version in which I play everybody.

David Bowie

#29. I first started writing music when I was 15 and at 16, I was playing in different cities in Australia. When I was 18, I was voted number one DJ in Australia.

TyDi

#30. If all sentient beings in the universe disappeared, there would remain a sense in which mathematical objects and theorems would continue to exist even though there would be no one around to write or talk about them. Huge prime numbers would continue to be prime, even if no one had proved them prime.

Martin Gardner

#31. The chief difference between good writing and better writing may be measured by the number of imperceptible hesitations the reader experiences as he goes along.

James J. Kilpatrick

#32. It is from the graves and ruins and rubbish-heaps of Egypt that writings have been restored to us in great numbers.

Frederic G. Kenyon

#33. Writing is not a numbers game. You should focus more on reaching the hearts of readers and building fans more than publishing a plethora of books that no one may care about.

Selena Haskins

#34. I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among a good number of them.

Bonnie Jo Campbell

#35. I can't read or write music. When I want to remember something, I try to remember all the keys on the piano. Which is what I still do. I put the numbers on the keys. And that's got to become music again.

Melvin Van Peebles

#36. We don't know what we're writing until it just comes out. We don't sit around crunching numbers.

Dustin Diamond

#37. As I write, Kim Beazley has the numbers and the game looks over.

Margo Kingston

#38. If you were to write your life motto, what would it say? Look out for number one? Or look out for the needs of others?

David Jeremiah

#39. The living together is very important in a way. It's important for writing. It wouldn't be important if we were like just getting other people's numbers together, we'd just have to meet at rehearsals, but writing is something almost completely different.

Steve Winwood

#40. I have a Sharpie. I love Sharpies. You know what they say on them? Not for letter writing. That sucks. Now I have to communicate with my dad using numbers.

Mitch Hedberg

#41. Genius, in one respect, is like gold; numbers of persons are constantly writing about both, who have neither.

Charles Caleb Colton

#42. Hurry up and write your number down before I don't want it no more,

Will Smith

#43. I write what I write and I honestly don't care if it gets on or not. I'm writing to see if I can find out some of what I think about any number of situations. I work it out in the writing.

Larry Gelbart

#44. I'm 45, and I'm still at school, essentially. Even after being assigned to the mission, I had to write a number of exams, with people commenting on my performance.

Julie Payette