Quotes about writ
writing prose
I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose. Jim Harrison
writing problem gender
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.
writing michigan states
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
writing would-be literature
I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
writing i-can
I can write anywhere.
writing rose sitting
The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club? Jerry Pournelle
writing kids thinking
Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down. Jerry Spinelli
writing people feelings
I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.
writing touching care
The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best writing, and then you stand the best chance of really touching a reader in some way.
writing mind
In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.
writing voice track
Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I once put my ear to the railroad track, I listen now for the voice of my story.
writing care chance
Write what you care about. If you do that, you stand the best chance of doing your best writing.
writing criticism online
In 1998, Artnet was the site that convinced me that if my writing didn't exist online, it didn't exist at all. It showed me criticism's future. Jerry Saltz
writing artist years
The very paradigm of revolution, of right versus wrong, good versus bad, is a relic with no bearing on the present. Yet artists, exhibitions, and curators valorize the sixties. People who wrote about these artists 30 years ago still write about them in the same ways, often for the same magazines.
writing editors magazines
I wrote an article on a new Porsche for 'Automobile Magazine.' I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I'm more proud of that than anything. Jerry Seinfeld
writing credit likes
The fact that the theatregoing public likes my music is no credit to me. There are many other composers who write better music that the public doesn't like. Jerome Kern
writing helping
All experience helps when you write. Jerome Lawrence
writing soul mind
The whole point of writing is to have something in your gut or in your soul or in your mind that's burning to be written.
writing thinking passionate
I think enthusiasm is the answer to passionate writing.
writing years keys
Writing is a key differentiator. I've used it for 14 years. Writing will not just lead to differentiation. Writing is the credibility you need to create buyer confidence Jeffrey Gitomer
writing thinking skills
Improve writing skills: 1. Keep paragraphs short. 2. Use bold and CAPS to make points. 3. Start with a question or short statement. 4. Give me meat in the middle. All meat. 5. Make me smile, think, or act at the end.
writing pages six
I have a lot of novels that I haven't finished. I usually get 150 pages in and I realize it's not going anywhere. I don't publish everything I write. I must have six unfinished novels at least. Jeffrey Eugenides
writing long scratches
No matter how long your've been at it, you always start from scratch.
writing way doe
If love were endless, if it were on tap, it wouldn't hit us the way it does. And we certainly wouldn't write about it.
writing interesting long
I was aware that you weren't supposed to write about suburbia, that it was undignified in some way, the subject matter not momentous enough. And so, for a long time, that kept me from writing about it. But once I began, I realized it was just as interesting as anywhere else.
writing character thinking
I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.
writing gaining-weight spinsters
She could become a spinster, like Emily Dickinson, writing poems full of dashes and brilliance, and never gaining weight.
writing heart winning
The daily act of writing remains as demanding and maddening as it was before, and the pleasure you get from writing - rare but profound - remains at the true heart of the enterprise. On their best days, writers all over the world are winning Pulitzers, all alone in their studios, with no one watching.
writing want stuff
It's not easy to writing thank-you notes for the stuff you didn't want in the first place. Jeff Kinney
writing thinking childhood
I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
writing fate bored
Those whimpering Stateside young people will wake up on the Day of Judgment condemned to worse fates than these demon-fearing Indians, because, having a Bible, they were bored with it - while these never heard of such a thing as writing. Jim Elliot
writing blessing thinking
It makes me boil when I think of the power we profess and the utter impotency of our action. Believers who know one-tenth as much as we do are doing one-hundred times more for God, with His blessing and our criticism. Oh if I could write it, preach it, say it, paint it, anything at all, if only God's power would become known among us.
writing thinking doors
I wish, in some ways, I was the type of comedian who could do something blistering and topical, but I'm the guy who gets stuck in the revolving door and thinks I should write about that. Jim Gaffigan