Quotes about writ
writing mirrors greek
I work in an old tradition that goes back to the ancient Greeks. You hold a mirror to crime to see what's happening in society. I could never write a crime story just for the sake of it, because I always want to talk about certain things in society. Henning Mankell
writing kind story-of-my-life
It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life. Helen Keller
writing space work-out
Trying to write is very much like trying to put a Chinese puzzle together. We have a pattern in mind which we wish to work out in words; but the words will not fit the spaces, or, if they do, they will not match the design.
writing thinking soul
If I write what my soul thinks it will be visible, and the words will be its body.
writing today
There will never be another now - I'll make the most of today. There will never be another me - I'll make the most of myself.
writing hands discovery
I don't want to live in a hand -me -down world of others' experiences. I want to write about me, my discoveries, my fears, my feelings, about me.
writing character people
Helen Lowe writes wonderful stories, yes, but her work also speaks with lyricism to deeper questions of how we treat each other. With lovely prose that brings vivid life to her characters, she creates a universe with people we care about. This is an author with a gift for fantasy. Catherine Asaro
writing talking people
As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right. Catharine Beecher
writing social conviction
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. George Eliot
writing self answers
Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion that you will like to hear from me. You see, I have asked no questions, which are the torture-screws of correspondence. Hence you have nothing to answer.
writing people thanks
People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.
writing errors furniture
All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!
writing thinking interesting
I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions.
writing mind answers
I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.
writing reflection men
The reflection and experience of many years have led me to consider the holy writings not only as the most authentic and instructive in themselves, but as the clue to all other history. They tell us what man is, and they alone tell us why he is what he is: a contradictory creature that seeing and approving of what is good, pursues and performs what is evil. All of private and public life is there displayed. ... From the same pure fountain of wisdom we learn that vice destroys freedom; that arbitrary power is founded on public immorality. Gouverneur Morris
writing goes-on television
I have no television to go on so I get a lot of writing done. That's my substitute for television. Gore Vidal
writing icy said
I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority).
writing track done
I’ve always said, ‘I have nothing to say, only to add.’ And it’s with each addition that the writing gets done. The first draft of anything is really just a track.
writing thinking imagine
Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!
writing brain
The brain that doesn't feed itself, eats itself.
writing people trying
I am a born novelist, which does not happen all that often. There are people who try to write for a certain time, then they become Ministers of Culture under de Gaulle, and they begin living their own fictions.
writing mean past
There was more of a flow to my output of writing in the past, certainly. Having no contemporaries left means you cannot say, Well, so-and-so will like this, which you do when you're younger. You realize there is no so-and-so anymore. You are your own so-and-so. There is a bleak side to it.
writing views voice
I write in different styles because I hear different voices in my head. It would be boring to have always the same voice, point of view.
writing thinking class
I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that's the most important thing there is for middle-class people.
writing alcohol bedtime
Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.
writing thinking advice
Write what you know will always be excellent advice for those who ought not to write at all. Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!
writing interesting way
The most interesting thing about writing is the way that it obliterates time. Three hours seem like three minutes.
writing thinking just-do-it
In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.
writing two force
These are two opposing forces, and whenever I am in active politics, I stop writing. And when I'm writing, I don't politick.
writing thinking paper
I sometimes think it is because they are so bad at expressing themselves verbally that writers take to pen and paper in the first place
writing born company
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head.
writing cities perfect
You can't really succeed with a novel anyway; they're too big. It's like city planning. You can't plan a perfect city because there's too much going on that you can't take into account. You can, however, write a perfect sentence now and then. I have.
writing player casting
Each writer is born with a repertory company in his head. Shakespeare has perhaps 20 players. ... I have 10 or so, and thats a lot. As you get older, you become more skillful at casting them.