Quotes about writ
writing given aspiration
I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations. George Saunders
writing trying fiction
The one thing fiction and non-fiction writing have in common for me is that sense of trying to get the sentences to be minimal but at the same time be a little overfull - to encourage them to do a kind of poetic work.
writing normal energetic
I've always wanted to write energetic, atypical sentences, i.e., sentences that were not normal or bland.
writing doe looks
That's what a story must feel like to me. It's not, "I want to write about a gravedigger." But you're walking along and - boop! shovel. "Ok, what does one do with a shovel? Digs a hole. Why? I don't know yet. Dig the hole! Oh, look a body."
writing ideas challenges
I love story-writing because I can (more or less, on occasion) actually DO it. That's really the truth. I like the idea that a story is sort of a site for making cool language effects - a site for celebrating language, and, therefore, the world. And the brevity is part of the challenge. I like stories because I get them - I know how to make beauty, or something like beauty, in that mode.
writing thinking remember
Whenever you talk about writing I think you have to remember that it all has a big question mark over it - every word has a big question mark over it.
writing have-faith tobias
As far as which writers embody this form of gentle power - Tobias Wolff, for sure. His persona and his writing both share an easy, capacious confidence that says he has faith in his readers.
writing needs produce
When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need.
writing people sloth
The chances of a person breaking through their own habits and sloth and limited mind to actually write something that gets out there and matters to people are slim.
writing years stories
I wasted a lot of years working on my writing and very grandly saying, 'And now... My Novel!,' which would soon be reduced to a short story, then to a paragraph.
writing thinking differences
I think that's one of the maybe under-discussed aspects of process - the difference between a good writing day and a bad one is the quality of the split-second decisions you made.
writing interesting political
Writing a story I am just trying to find some little interesting thing to start out with: something small, even trivial. Preferably something that doesn't have a lot of thematic or political baggage - a little crumb that is interesting.
writing ideas trying
My idea about collections is that you write as hard as you can for some period and what you're really doing during that time is hyper-focusing on the individual pieces - trying to make each one sit up and really do some surprising work.
writing used happens
Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.
writing typewriters hell
You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell? Jenkin Lloyd Jones
writing driving force
Writing has never been a driving force within me. Jeffrey Combs
writing way study
The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire. Jeffery Deaver
writing challenges together
I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.
writing long want
If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say
writing eight months
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
writing house rooms
I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.
writing challenges important
I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.
writing thinking leaving
Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel. Jeffrey Archer
writing discipline way
The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.
writing way life-is
I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
writing thinking temptation
hen, there's such a temptation to just constantly write things that are going to make the fans happy. Sometimes it takes a little bit of unhappiness to make those happy pay-offs work better. That's something that is fascinating to us and I think has really changed the way that stories are told. Jeff Pinkner
writing knowing forever
We just keep making the shows that we love, and the good news is that we can never rest on our laurels, knowing that we're going to be on forever. We're constantly challenged to write the very best story that we can, week in and week out, hoping that that will allow us to keep telling more of them.
writing emotional order
Our audience holds us to an incredibly high standard of continuity and emotional authenticity. We don't toy with that, but oftentimes we write stories, in order to spark debate. We're very determined to always give the answer. We don't want to leave a lot of things open to debate, at the end of the day.
writing fate destiny
My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny. Jeff Probst
writing scripts needs
I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
writing thinking
I could not think without writing. Jean Piaget
writing financial financial-markets
God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them. Jean-Claude Juncker
writing kids night
A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the Oklahoma City bombing. He told junior that it happened "because they hated too much" For now, let`s accept the premise that one hundred sixty-eight humans died in Oklahoma City because people "hated too much" Now answer these questions if you would be so kind: did a federal sniper shoot Vicki Weaver in the face because he hated too much? Did our government conduct the Tuskegee with syphilis on black soldiers because it hated too much? Jim Goad