Quotes about writ
writing thinking who-i-am
I don't really do anything that isn't about writing, and I don't really know who I am if I'm not thinking about writing. Jamaica Kincaid
writing mets dismissal
My writing has always been met with derision or dismissal.
writing editors rivers
The resistance to my work, and to my way of writing, has been there from the beginning. The first things I wrote were these short short stories collected in At the Bottom of the River, and at least three of them are one sentence long. They were printed in The New Yorker, over the objections of many of the editors in the fiction department.
writing race people
Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry." If I write about a married person who lives in Vermont, it becomes "Oh, she's autobiographical."
writing two justice
What I really want to write about is injustice and justice, and the different ways human beings organize the two.
writing want
When I start to write something, I suppose I want it to change me, to make me into something not myself.
writing islands wanted
I come from the small island of Antigua and I always wanted to write; I just didn't know that it was possible.
writing successful careers
The thing about writing in America is that writers in America have an arc. You enter writing as a career, you expect to be successful, and really it's the wrong thing. It's not a profession.
writing thinking way
I think in many ways the problem that my writing would have with an American reviewer is that Americans find difficulty very hard to take. They are inevitably looking for a happy ending.
writing people important
In my writing I'm trying to explore the violations people commit upon each other. And the important thing isn't whether I'm angry. The more important thing is, is it true? Do these things really happen?
writing sound novel
The sound of words in a novel is a pretty amazing thing, and I am concerned with the sound of every word I write.
writing defiance
I write out of defiance.
writing white black
In my writing, I'm often describing a universal situation. A situation in which human beings often choose to violate each other. Sometimes I happen to explore that in terms of the black/white dynamic. Generally, a white person does not like me to say, or does not like to be told, "You know, what you did was incredibly wrong."
writing simple reality
Gardeners (or just plain simple writers who write about the garden) always have something they like intensely and in particular, right at the moment you engage them in the reality of the borders they cultivate, the space in the garden they occupy at any moment, they like in particular this, or they like in particular that.
writing certain i-can
I read about writers who have routines. They write at certain times of the day. I can't do that. I am always writing-but in my head.
writing crap ifs
If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot of American writers are professionals.
writing calling holy
Writing is not a profession. It's a calling. It's almost holy.
writing fiction useless
So much history, if you or I were to write it, could seem a fiction. These separations, these lines that tell us this is fiction or non-fiction, that this is history or this is a novel, are often useless.
writing black peculiar
I'm writing out of desperation. I felt compelled to write to make sense of it to myself - so I don't end up saying peculiar things like 'I'm black and I'm proud.' I write so I don't end up as a set of slogans and clichés.
writing important crafts
What I don't write is as important as what I write.
writing thinking garden
When I'm writing, I think about the garden, and when I'm in the garden I think about writing. I do a lot of writing by putting something in the ground.
writing goes-on revision
I write a lot in my head. The revision goes on internally. It's not spontaneous and it doesn't have a schedule.
writing people feelings
I would be lost without the feeling of antagonism that people have towards me. I write out of defiance.
writing
I tend to write more when I travel. Jaime Winstone
writing work-out trying
When things aren't working out, we have a tendency to say, 'Go do other things,' but you shouldn't do other things. You need to stay at your desk and continue to try to write. You need to insist on it. Jacques Audiard
writing imagine easy
Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing? Jacqueline Woodson
writing knowing feelings
Sometimes, I don't know that words for things, how to write down the feeling of knowing that every dying person leaves something behind.
writing thinking giving
I think it's important to remember that writing is a gift and our stories are gifts to ourselves and to the world and sometimes giving isn't always the easiest thing to do but it comes back.
writing secret facts
No one will ever know from what secret I am writing and the fact that I say so changes nothing. Jacques Derrida
writing feelings stronger
Actually, when I write, there is a feeling of necessity, of something that is stronger than myself that demands that I must write as I write.
writing order years
During the fifteen or twenty years in which I tried - it was not always easy with publishers, newspapers, etc. - to forbid photographs, it was not at all in order to mark a sort of blank, absence, or disappearance of the image; it was because the code that dominates at once the production of these images, the framing they are made to undergo, the social implications (showing the writer's head framed in front his bookshelves, the whole scenario) seemed to me to be, first of all, terribly boring, but also contrary to what I am trying to write and to work on.
writing language traditional
The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.
writing opposites names
Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way Jacques Barzun