Quotes about writ
writing thinking writing-and-thinking
Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable. Jaron Lanier
writing plot firsts
When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted yourself in a plot corner. Janet Evanovich
writing men ideas
Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.
writing long progress
How long do we have to deal with conservative failure? How long? Thirty years is not enough? So I would say enough with that, and I would say check out the Center for American Progress, and the writings by Patrick Garofalo, economic guru. That's what I would say. Janeane Garofalo
writing poetry trying
The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand. Janet Fitch
writing home exercise
Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.
writing long done
I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth?
writing numbers people
Most people write the same sentence over and over again. The same number of words-say, 8-10, or 10-12. The same sentence structure. Try to become stretchy-if you generally write 8 words, throw a 20 word sentence in there, and a few three-word shorties. If you're generally a 20 word writer, make sure you throw in some threes, fivers and sevens, just to keep the reader from going crosseyed.
writing house littles
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
writing light media
Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what the world smells like, what the textures are, what the sounds are, what the light looks like, what the weather is.
writing rabbits accidents
We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits. - Joe Morelli
writing listening cabins
When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time. Ethan Zuckerman
writing passion america
In America, where writers are preoccupied with the craft of writing, I always try to introduce this concept of the badly written good story. Turning the hierarchy around and putting passion on top and not craft, because when you just focus on craft, you can write something that is very sterile. Etgar Keret
writing important clarity
Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.
writing law space
Nobody else in the world would look at writing as craftsmanship - it's totally this Protestant hardworking ethic. You go into this kind of infinite space of imagination and you fence yourself in with all kinds of laws.
writing evil people
I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.
writing incentives seeing
I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.
writing people feelings
All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli publisher, my foreign ones, my bank manager - they all felt and keep feeling that I'm doing something wrong here.
writing wife stories
I remember a point in [writing] the story where I said, "This isn't working, I should go and buy something at the supermarket or my wife will kill me." Then I said, "No, I'll go on."
writing people stories
I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.
writing fiction moments
Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.
writing thinking should
I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.
writing gps surfing
Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.
writing stories language
When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.
writing emotion reason
The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.
writing army space
In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.
writing israel roles
In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
writing thinking stories
I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
writing army training
I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.
writing mean different
Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it just means that you're hungry for life. There are so many things you want to do.
writing speech littles
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.
writing stories may
I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough.
writing broken legs
My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write. Ernst Mach