Quotes about writ
writing giving secret
I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2. O. Henry
writing stories forget
If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
writing giving secret
I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
writing
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
writing fiction natural
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest. Octavia Butler
writing novel wanted
Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.
writing trying fancy
I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.
writing character people
The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.
writing worry people
Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.
writing stories i-can
...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.
writing rejection painful
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.
writing thinking eight
It's interesting how many science fiction writers get going when they are very young. I was on a program with Greg Bear and he mentioned that he had gotten started writing when he was eight. And I began writing when I was 10. I think we're influenced by the stuff, we find it and we love it and we're influenced by it....I know I collected my first rejection slip when I was 13, and I went on collecting them for a long time after that.
writing stories
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
writing long comeback
No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
writing alive theory
I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.
writing firsts fantasy
Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.
writing persistence stories
If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.
writing toilets littles
And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
writing frustration profession
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
writing
I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing,
writing persistence thinking
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
writing stories wanted
I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
writing band population
My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles. Nuno Bettencourt
writing wind feet
I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground. Ntozake Shange
writing thinking self
Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become Norman Vincent Peale
writing people listening
I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening. Emilie Autumn
writing proportion fling
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us. Emile M. Cioran
writing men misery
The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.
writing next ifs
If I did anything 'next,' I would do writing. Ellen Muth
writing order land
I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is problematic because in production, you have to make the language lift off the page. But a good actor can turn it into human speech. I err sometimes toward having such a compound of images that if an actor lands heavily on each one, you never pull through to a larger idea. That's a problem for the audience. But I come to playwriting from the visual world - I used to be a painter. I also really love novels and that use of language. But it's tricky to ask that of the theatre. Ellen McLaughlin
writing care columns
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care. Ellen Goodman
writing people movement
People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.
writing thinking firsts
Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.