Quotes about writ
writing kids thinking
I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids? Jennifer Weiner
writing college years
I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.
writing stories novel
If a writer writes poems and short stories and novels, but nobody ever reads them, is she really a writer?
writing ongoing sitting
Writing let me escape... It let me escape the insistent tug of my family, and its ongoing misery. Sitting in front of the computer, with the screen blank and the cursor blinking, was the best escape I knew. And there was plenty to escape from.
writing wish would-be
If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way you thought it would be, and the endings aren't always happy ones.
writing presumptuous
The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.
writing feelings chicks
My feeling about my own work is, I could be writing 'The Aeneid' and they would still have to call it chick lit or mommy lit or menopausal old hag lit.
writing important hours
Do I want to spend my diminished working hours writing or answering email? Now I have somebody read through them. If someone has something really important to tell me I write back. Otherwise they get the auto reply.
writing stem reader
Writing is something that I've always loved. That stems from my love of being a reader. Jen Lancaster
writing seven
And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven. Jena Malone
writing natural-talent acting
I am just really focused in on what I love doing, but I would be a moron to not take some of my natural talent - I'm not saying I'm that talented, but I have enough acting and writing talent to go. Jen Kirkman
writing eye ideas
Method acting has had a major influence both in writing through the eyes of other people, and seeing through the eyes of other people, trying to address different ideas in a way that would go beyond preaching to the choir. Jello Biafra
writing style phases
I went through a big Alice Cooper phase, which was probably a major influence on my writing style later, especially after Plastic Surgery Disasters.
writing trying fleeting
Read heavily in the area where you want to write. Be aware of what's selling and what's doing well but don't try to write to market trends; they are fleeting. Jeff Abbott
writing fans bigs
I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again. Jeannette Walls
writing thinking people
One of the many lessons I hope I've learned is how much I underestimated people, their open-mindedness and their willingness to understand. I think, moreover, I underestimated the degree to which everyone has a story. So my advice, for whatever it's worth, is to trust readers, trust the truth and trust the power of storytelling.
writing perspective choices
The best time to tell your story is when you have to tell your story. When it's not really a choice. But then, when you get that first, messy, complicated version down, you have to read it over and be very tough on yourself and ask, 'Well what's the story here?' If you're lucky enough to have someone you trust looking over your shoulder, he or she can help you if [you] lack perspective on your own story.
writing voice challenges
One of the most challenging aspects of writing a memoir is finding your own voice, and you should be very careful about being influenced by someone else's voice.
writing genius
The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them. George Eliot
writing simple language-words
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
writing italian culture
The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture surveys the forms and uses of epigraphic writing from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. Geoffrey Nunberg
writing crafts may
It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't. Geoffrey S. Fletcher
writing space astronaut
I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.
writing years promise
I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.
writing laughing trying
I've discovered I prefer to prepare a few notes or actually write the speech so I can really hone it down to hopefully be entertaining, try and get a laugh at least by the second line, and then say what you need to say. Geoffrey Rush
writing men space
Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space. Geoffrey Chaucer
writing needs schedules
As a writer and a director, I simply don’t have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight production schedule, Gary Ross
writing thinking artist
Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California. Gary Numan
writing voice different
I write five, six days a week. The thing is capturing the voice. I feel like I've been perfecting one voice - in different iterations, sure, but the Russian-ness has always been the undercurrent. Gary Shteyngart
writing mean personality
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends.
writing heart ifs
Let's see if I can write about something other than my heart.
writing way right-now
The only way to write about right now is to write about the future.
writing people subway
People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly.