Quotes about writ
writing world way
My way of finding a place in this world is to write one. Barbara Kingsolver
writing drawing people
Literature duplicates the experience of living in a way that nothing else can, drawing you so fully into another life that you temporarily forget you have one of your own. That is why you read it, and might even sit up in bed till early dawn, throwing your whole tomorrow out of whack, simply to find out what happens to some people who, you know perfectly well, are made up.
writing waiting work-ethic
Don't wait for the muse. She has a lousy work ethic. Writers just write.
writing funny-things discipline
It's a funny thing: people often ask how I discipline myself to write. I can't begin to understand the question. For me, the discipline is turning off the computer and leaving my desk to do something else.
writing perfect
There is no perfect time to write. There is only now.
writing creativity people
Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say.
writing flow reason
For some reason when I write in cursive, it's easier and flows better for me to read that when I print. Ashley Scott
writing expression creative
Writing was my route to creative expression, and I needed to write about the things that interested me. Ashwin Sanghi
writing different world
Writing helps me create a different world that I can escape to.
writing editors suggestions
After writing each novel, I would spend days poring over suggestions from my editor.
writing months topics
I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.
writing want reader
I want to make sure that my writing grips the reader from the word 'go.'
writing years identity
I was a businessman for 16 years of my life, so when I started writing, I wanted to keep my literary identity separate.
writing the-end-of-the-day chapters
I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my novel with spreadsheets and the milestones in each chapter highlighted.
writing imagine wells
I imagine the proverb about too many cooks spoiling the broth can be applied to writing as well as anything else. The poetical or literary broth is better cooked by one person. Barbara Pym
writing kind pleasure
Novel writing is a kind of private pleasure, even if nothing comes of it in worldly terms.
writing way
The only way to do it is to do it: by writing, writing, writing. Barbara Mertz
writing habit latter
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter.
writing names wave
We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away. Augustus
writing thinking secret
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. Augusten Burroughs
writing effort alive
I never question the way I write. Writing is the only thing that's without seams for me. It's an effort to talk because my pictures have to be turned into these sounds. It's an effort to be alive. It's work. But writing is wonderful.
writing way
Writing has enriched my life in ways I never imaged.
writing worry smoking
I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. I’m shutting down. I need to go the other way, inside. And it was so clear to me what I was doing. It was suddenly perfectly clear. I understood, I need to write. Live here, in my words, and my head. I need to go inside, that’s all. No big, complicated, difficult thing. I just need to go in reverse. And not worry about what to write about, but just write. Or, if I’m going to worry about what to write, then do this worrying on paper, so at least I’m writing and will have a record of the anxiety.
writing down-and ritual
My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.
writing caring thinking
There is nothing about MYSELF that I wouldn't reveal or write about. I don't care how horrendous or ridiculous I may appear in person or in print. There is great freedom in not caring what other people think.
writing thinking eight
(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It seems wiser to let him think I’m an aspiring novelist instead of just an alcoholic with a year of sobriety who spends eight hours a day writing about the other 16.
writing editing judging
The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on your laptop, but you need to have a limber mind and you need to be able to write without judging what you've written, at least right away, and without editing right away.
writing sitting lines
But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.
writing decided happens
Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.
writing npr
And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.
writing listening-to-music
I never listen to music when I write.
writing years lasts
I could write another collection of personal essays from what has happened to me in the last year alone. I don't seek out my material - it finds me. I am magnetic, somehow.
writing routine email
I don't have a fixed routine. I write every day but I don't "write" every day, if that makes any sense. In other words, I email with my friends constantly and sometimes I'll pull out something I've written and save it.