Quotes about writ
writing college example
For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work Gay Talese
writing junkie
I'm like a junkie for writing. Gavin DeGraw
writing school college
I always knew when I graduated from high school I’d go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from . . . I just wanted to study literature and writing. Gaby Hoffmann
writing discovery feelings
When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings. Gail Carson Levine
writing bores-you ems
If beginnings terrify you, or if you just plain don't like writing them, or if they bore you, skip 'em.
writing play ideas
You see, writing down your meanderings gets something started deep in the recesses of your brain. That distant part of your mind knows that you want to write stories or poems or plays and not endless jabber, and it will get to work. It may take a while. You may have to write this stuff for hours or days or weeks, but eventually that subterranean part of your brain will come through and begin to send you ideas.
writing sometimes my-favorite
I love having written. Sometimes I love writing. I love to revise. Revising is my favorite part of writing.
writing skills trying
Writing is a weird thing because we can read, we know how to write a sentence. It's not like a trumpet where you have to get some skill before you can even produce a sound. It's misleading because it's hard to make stories. It seems like it should be easy to do but it's not. The more you write, the better you're going to get. Write and write and write. Try not to be hard on yourself.
writing process hardest
I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
writing people narrative
Any time you write history, you insert your opinion. You pick and choose what you are going to write about. I feel really happy not inserting myself. I spend too much of my life inserting myself. It's just great to let other people carry the narrative. Gail Collins
writing government sight
I write about how in Midland, the mayor instituted water conservation measures like restrictions on car washing. He made a point though that they were only "suggestions" and not government telling people what to do. But then his constituents got very ticked off at the sight of their neighbors breaking the rules and demanded that they be made into actual laws with penalties.
writing grandmother florida
Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter. Gabrielle Zevin
writing people perfect
The most important thing in writing process is the vibe cause if you on a roll, if you feel it you just feel it. And it's all about the atmosphere, the people around you, you know, everything. You got to be clear headed in that and have a perfect atmosphere. French Montana
writing night keys
A secretary is not a thing Wound by key, pulled by string. Her pad is to write in, And not spend the night in, If that's what you plan to enjoy. Frank Loesser
writing produce i-can
Absolutely. I can produce. I can write. I can direct. Frank Langella
writing performing
I'm more interested in writing than in performing. Frank McCourt
writing men vanity
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity. Napoleon Bonaparte
writing race greek
Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.
writing slang
I write in American slang. Norman Spinrad
writing people giving
For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he can exploit; for the serious good writer it releases his experiences or emotions from himself and incorporates them into literature, where they belong. Northrop Frye
writing aphorism translate
Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.
writing looks use
We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us.
writing may attributes
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.
writing style together
I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're in the middle of putting your work together. Norman Mailer
writing venture bypass
Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.
writing adjectives mark
Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing
writing way
The way you write affects what you say.
writing character elude-you
To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you... a truth... that used to elude you.
writing damage desks
Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.
writing sweat after-hours
Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.
writing class alimony
Alimony is the curse of the writing class.
writing vision married
Since great writers communicate a vision of existence, one can't borrow their methods. The method is married to the vision.
writing simple years
Over the years, I've found one rule. It is the only one I give on those occasions when I talk about writing. A simple rule. If you tell yourself you are going to be at your desk tomorrow, you are by that declaration asking your unconscious to prepare the material. You are, in effect, contracting to pick up such valuables at a given time. Count on me, you are saying to a few forces below: I will be there to write.