Quotes about writ
writing way stranger
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it. Gertrude Stein
writing thinking discovery
You will write if you will write without thinking of the result in terms of a result, but think of the writing in terms of discovery, which is to say that creation must take place between the pen and the paper, not before in a thought or afterwards in a recasting... It will come if it is there and if you will let it come.
writing mind study
It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
writing mean thinking
I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in fact, I think the profession rose quite honorably to the task. Novelists require a slower turnover, I mean, in time. Ian Mcewan
writing giving people
When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.
writing
I'm quite good at not writing.
writing perfect if-i-could
If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.
writing people fiction
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.
writing stronger might
At that moment, the urge to be writing was stronger than any notion she had of what she might write.
writing imagination fancy
Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?
writing years standards
We'll keep writing and if it hits our standards we'll go with it. We're not here to destroy anything. It's as precious to us as it is for someone who's followed us for years. Ian Brown
writing friendly sometimes
As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes. Ian Hamilton Finlay
writing muse given
But I can only write what the muse allows me to write. I cannot choose, I can only do what I am given, and I feel pleased when I feel close to concrete poetry - still.
writing precedent
Everything I write has a precedent in truth. Ian Fleming
writing looks asks
I always make it a rule never to look back. Otherwise, I'd ask myself how I could write such piffle and live with myself, day after day.
writing numbers people
The number of people who can copulate properly may be few; the number who can write well are infinitely fewer. Hugh MacDiarmid
writing able
I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else. Hugh Leonard
writing skills ideas
Yet in our enthusiasm for the idea that everyone should be able to read and write fluently, we may be missing a crucial point: in today's culture, finely honed literacy skills are simply not as important as they once were. Hugh Mackay
writing years track
Write down five things you love to do. Next, write down five things that you're really good at. Then just try to match them up! Revisit your list once a year to make sure you're on the right track. Hugh Jackman
writing simple play
I've found in composing that being simple and profound—having in-depthness in your music—is the most difficult thing to do. Anybody can write a whole lot of notes, which may or may not say something . . . But why make it complicated for the musicians to play? Why make it difficult for the listeners to hear? Horace Silver
writing style wells
The best style of writing, as well as the most forcible, is the plainest. Horace Greeley
writing doe ugly
I am persuaded that foolish writers and foolish readers are created for each other; and that fortune provides readers as she does mates for ugly women. Horace Walpole
writing ink cold
Every drop of ink in my pen ran cold.
writing laughing tragedy
Ponder, your comedies are woeful chaff: Write tragedies, when you would make us laugh.
writing wish study
If you wish to write well, study the life about you,--life in the public streets. Horace Mann
writing character doe
The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character. Hunter S. Thompson
writing reality artist
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.
writing stories written
There is no story unless you've written it.
writing way freak
I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
writing pride imagine
I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.
writing thinking sitting
One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having your say on the subject. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it.
writing reality artist
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
writing long may
There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.