Quotes about writ
writing waste
A writer wastes nothing. F. Scott Fitzgerald
writing iraq people
I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way. George W. Bush
writing math simple
We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write.
writing data wells
You cannot write well without data. George V. Higgins
writing son ideas
My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also. George Strait
writing firsts notes
In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note. George Shearing
writing men hands
The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius. George Steiner
writing flying trying
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty' George Orwell
writing liberty literature
Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.
writing skins pages
He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.
writing talking mind
Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
writing agony novel
Writing a novel is agony.
writing political historical
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
writing style
By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.
writing class people
There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.
writing mind trying
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you
writing heart pennies
Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?
writing order long
Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug. The attraction of this way of writing is that it is easy.
writing wish doe
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
writing epic bigs
I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale. George R. R. Martin
writing want stories
I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.
writing subconscious bounds
A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.
writing opportunity class
I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write stories for some of my other classes. So for my course in Scandinavian history, I asked if I could write historical fiction instead of term papers. Sometimes they’d say yes.
writing views giving
From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close and personal, dropping the reader right into the middle of the carnage. That's vivid and visceral, but of necessity chaotic, and it is easy to lose all sense of the battle as a whole. Sometimes I go with the general's point of view instead, looking down from on high, seeing lines and flanks and reserves. That gives a great sense of the tactics, of how the battle is won or lost, but can easily slide into abstraction.
writing successful thoughtful
All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not to say fiction can't be thoughtful, or present some interesting or provocative ideas to make us think. But if you want to present an intellectual argument, nonfiction is a better tool. You can drive a nail with a shoe but a hammer is a better tool for that. But fiction is about emotional resonance, about making us feel things on a primal and visceral level.
writing character thinking
I don't like the strictly objective viewpoint [in which all of the characters' actions are described in the third person, but we never hear what any of them are thinking.] Which is much more of a cinematic technique. Something written in third person objective is what the camera sees. Because unless you're doing a voiceover, which is tremendously clumsy, you can't hear the ideas of characters. For that, we depend on subtle clues that the directors put in and that the actors supply. I can actually write, "'Yes you can trust me,' he lied." [But it's better to get inside the characters' heads.]
writing thinking agony
I feel satisfaction at the end of the day when I've written a scene that I really like or when I write a good line of dialogue that I read out to my wife or something like that. But there's also days where it's just bloody agony and I go, 'ugh, this is such crap! Why did I think I had any talent?
writing impact advice
The best writing advice I had was [in] ‘Heinlein’s Rules for Writers’ by (American science fiction author) Robert A. Heinlein. His first rule is that you must write, and I was already doing that, but his second rule is, ‘You must finish what you write,’ and that had a big impact on me.
writing views knowing
Writing is like sausage making in my view; you'll all be happier in the end if you just eat the final product without knowing what's gone into it.
writing fabulous inspired
Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.
writing ideas mind
Ideas are cheap. I have more ideas now than I could ever write up. To my mind, it's the execution that is all-important.
writing reality spirit
The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction. It is the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality. Jean Cocteau
writing temptation poison
After you have written a thing and you reread it, there is always the temptation to fix it up, to improve it, to remove its poison, blunt its sting.