Quotes about writ
writing use
Writing is not primarily escape, but use. Henry James
writing doe reason
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
writing bleeding butchery
I have performed the necessary butchery. Here is the bleeding corpse.
writing long stories
Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story. Henry Cloud
writing romance paper
To the composition of novels and romances, nothing is necessary but paper, pens, and ink, with the manual capacity of using them. Henry Fielding
writing sides ridiculous
What caricature is in painting, burlesque is in writing; and in the same manner the comic writer and painter correlate to each other; as in the former, the painter seems to have the advantage, so it is in the latter infinitely on the side of the writer. For the monstrous is much easier to paint than describe, and the ridiculous to describe than paint.
writing meditation needs
Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing. Helene Cixous
writing love-is names
Other-Love is writing's first name.
writing mean succeed
Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.
writing exclusion searching-for-love
When I write, it's everything that we don't know we can be that is written out of me, without exclusions, without stipulation, and everything we will be calls us to the unflagging, intoxicating, unappeasable search for love. In one another we will never be lacking.
writing dwelling-place exit
Writing is the passageway, the entrance, the exit, the dwelling place of the other in me.
writing wings bird
And I was afraid. She frightens me because she can knock me down with a word. Because she does not know that writing is walking on a dizzying silence setting one word after the other on emptiness. Writing is miraculous and terrifying like the flight of a bird who has no wings but flings itself out and only gets wings by flying.
writing cutting class
Women must write through their bodies, they must invent the impregnable language that will wreck partitions, classes, and rhetorics, regulations and codes, they must submerge, cut through, get beyond the ultimate reverse-discourse, including the one that laughs at the very idea of pronouncing the word "silence"...In one another we will never be lacking.
writing self law
Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as from their bodies - for the same reasons, by the same law, with the same fatal goal. Woman must put herself into the text - as into the world and into history - by her own movement.
writing stranger bizarre
I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner. Helena Christensen
writing years research
I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all. Helen Dunmore
writing historical pleasure
However, the difficulties and pleasures of the writing itself are similar for a novel with a historical setting and a novel with a contemporary setting, as far as I'm concerned.
writing ears weight
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.
writing alive dull
The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it.
writing want stills
Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.
writing long-walks pieces
A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.
writing white numbers
It's amazing how much time and money can be saved in the world of dating by close attention to detail. A white sock here, a pair of red braces there, a gray slip-on shoe, a swastika, are as often as not all one needs to tell you there's no point in writing down phone numbers and forking out for expensive lunches because it's never going to be a runner. Helen Fielding
writing thinking confusion
I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.
writing finance bridget-jones
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.
writing people diaries
The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.
writing people hurtful
For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person from writing whatever they want. What's harmful and hurtful is when people speculate. John Krasinski
writing reflection self
Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret. Johann Sebastian Bach
written practicality
My things really are written with an appalling lack of practicality! Johannes Brahms
writing men creating
How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating.
writing trying purity
If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.
writing age occupation
Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23. Johanna Lindsey
writing doe lines
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
writing men light
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.