Quotes about writ
writing needs information
All the information you need can be given in dialogue. Elmore Leonard
writing people trying
Try not to write the parts that people skip.
writing good-day four
I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.
writing sin adverbs
Using adverbs is a mortal sin.
writing inspire sound
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
writing want reader
I don't want the reader to be aware of me as the writer.
writing may narrative
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.
writing advice important
My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.
writing past milton
Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
writing heart looks
Look, then, into thine heart, and write!
writing numbers bird
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts since they are infinite in number. We must make a selection ... guided by utility ... Have we not some better occupation than counting the number of lady-birds in existence on this planet? Henri Poincare
writing written related
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through. Henrik Ibsen
writing feelings baths
Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
writing would-be use
The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs which never change, and which would be like writing: that would paralyze the freedom of my invention. Henri Matisse
writing boundaries connected
I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend ecclesial boundaries. Henri Nouwen
writing thinking ideas
People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.
writing journey space
The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know.
writing community solitude
Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.
writing thinking trying
I want the plot to be as complicated as possible. Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it makes sense. I don't think out the plot ahead of time. Heidi Julavits
writing fake challenges
As such, anything is always possible, even if your protagonist is a plumber. But it's the possibility, the limitless possibilities, of any fake life, that make writing about it so challenging.
writing psychics creative-space
Whether I'm writing about plumbers or psychics or psychic plumbers, I want to find a creative space that imprisons me usefully, so I can deviate with purpose.
writing different way
A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these different steps and tautologies. I approach novel writing that way. When I get to the end I have to go back and connect everything.
writing curiosity three
I wont deny that I have a far more productive writing life without the Internet, mostly because I rekindle my ability to concentrate on one thing for a period of longer than three minutes. My curiosity is channeled inward rather than Internet-ward.
writing technology found-you
The recollection of how, when and where it all happened became vague as the lingering strains hung in the rafters of the studio. I wanted to shout back at it, Maybe I didn't write you, but I found you. Hoagy Carmichael
writing hands silent
What can't be said can be written. Because writing is a silent act, a labor from the head to the hand. Herta Muller
writing looks doe
Writing itself does not know what it looks like while one is doing it, only when it's finished.
writing hands knives
I write and chop with my left hand and do everything else, including eating with a knife, with my right. Heston Blumenthal
writing needs actresses
I got all the schooling any actress needs. That is, I learned to write enough to sign contract. Hermione Gingold
writing math favorite-subject
My favorite subject probably was math. I love math. Figures just intrigue me. I was really good at math. English probably was my worst subject. But I used to write a lot of poetry. I used to write poetry all the time. Herschel Walker
writing winning sweat
Before the gates of excellence the high gods have placed sweat; long is the road thereto and rough and steep at first; but when the heights are reached, then there is ease, though grievously hard in the winning. Hesiod
writing editing balance
It's easier to teach a poet how to read a balance sheet than it is to teach an accountant how to write. Henry R. Luce
writing men balance
There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.
writing eight people
I'd rather work on my radio show, which no one hears but I put about eight hours of programming and writing into it for those 30 people who do tune in. Henry Rollins