Quotes about writ
writing would-be matter
Get yourself in that intense state of being next to madness. Keep yourself in, not necessarily a frenzied state, but in a state of great intensity. The kind of state you would be in before going to bed with your partner. That heightened state when you're in a carnal embrace: time stops and nothing else matters. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman. Tom Robbins
writing adventure journey
Most really good fiction is compelled into being. It comes from a kind of uncalculated innocence. You need not have your ending in mind before you commence. Indeed, you need not be certain of exactly what's going to transpire on page 2. If you know the whole story in advance, your novel is probably dead before you begin it. Give it some room to breathe, to change direction, to surprise you. Writing a novel is not so much a project as a journey, a voyage, an adventure.
writing novel ready
A lot of aspiring writers are all ready to write a novel, but they don't know how to write sentences.
writing bottles geese
When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.
writing imagination people
People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
writing air ideas
Don't talk about it - you'll talk it away. Let the ideas flow from your mind to the page without exposing them to air. Especially hot air.
writing next madness
Get yourself in that extreme state of being next to madness. You should always write with an erection. Even if you're a woman.
writing sentences
I'm probably more interested in sentences than anything else in life.
writing novelists twisted
Most novelists write about twisted lives.
writing fool best-place
Never be afraid to make a fool of yourself. The furthest out you can go is the best place to be.
writing thinking mind
A lot of my work comes from what in Asia is called the 'mind of wonder.' There is not a lot of 'mind of wonder' writing in contemporary Western literature. I think that's what appeals to the readers who are my fans.
writing paper woods
I work with pen and paper. That's my favorite way to write. I love the way the ink sinks into the wood, soaks into the wood pulp. There's something about that process that's so organic.
writing thinking museums
I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want to. I don't have to think this thing through and write about it at any great length. I can think about it if I want to; if not, I can just walk out. So I can enjoy painting really a lot more than I could when I had that sort of pressure.
writing heart creating
The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'
writing long fiction
Being able to create your own work, being able to indulge your own fantasies is so much better than journalism, so much more fulfilling than journalism, to me, that as long as I can continue to write fiction, I shall.
writing dark dust
Bland writing - timid, antiseptic, vanilla writing - is nearly as unhealthy as the brutal and dark. Instead of sipping, say, elixir, nectar, tequila, or champagne, the reader is invited to slurp lumpy milk or choke on the author's dust bunnies.
writing helping compare
Always compare yourself to the best. Even if you never measure up, it can't help but make you better.
writing fiction nimble
Rules such as "Write what you know," and "Show, don't tell," while doubtlessly grounded in good sense, can be ignored with impunity by any novelist nimble enough to get away with it. There is, in fact, only one rule in writing fiction: Whatever works, works.
writing
Write like no one's going to read it ! Tom Evans
writing tubas orchestra
I don't want somebody who writes like me [in my writing staff]. Because I can write like me. I know what I'm capable of and what my limitations are. If you're going to build an orchestra, you don't want all tubas - you want a violin and you want a cello and you want a drum set. Tom Fontana
writing acting want
Whether it's acting, directing or writing, I want to be involved in the film industry for the rest of my life. Tom Felton
writing character acting
When you write a character and their dialogue, you can't help imagining how you would be acting if you were them. You kind of have to relate to all of them. It's the most personal thing I've ever done. Tom Ford
writing wish doe
A great writer reveals the truth even when he or she does not wish to. Tom Bissell
writing focus be-good
No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it Tom Araya
writing yeah
I just don't write musically, but lyrically, yeah I write.
writing
I write, I write, I always write.
writing acting scripts
I wrote a script. I actually enjoyed writing it more than acting. It's about the Irish rebellion of 1920, which is a fascinating period and place for me Tom Berenger
writing thinking media
I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s, having observed some distortions up close, but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media. Todd Gitlin
writing let-it-go scripts
In the end, whether I write the script or, in this case, somebody else did, there's a point where you let it go when you're making a movie. You just have to. The thing that you shoot is not what you imagined in your head - it never is exactly that. And it shouldn't be. Todd Haynes
writing play acting
I always loved theater and acting in plays and directing, writing little plays and directing friends in plays.
writing years next-year
I write all year, and at the end of the year I put an album out. And if sucks, it sucks, and if it's good, it's good. I just let it lay where it lays. It doesn't stop from doing another one next year. Toby Keith
writing cowboy forever
I'd had my whole life to write my first album. I had my No. 1 and my third single out, and they go, 'Hey, guess what? We need to start recording the next one.' I'm like, 'Uh oh, I got to write another album. Well, how am I gonna write 'Should've Been a Cowboy' and 'Ain't Worth Missing' and all that again?' It took me forever to write the first one.
writing
How can you stop writing? Tony Hillerman