Quotes about writ
writing slogans
Don't write slogans, write truths. Joe Strummer
writing want
You want to write something as good as what you've read. Jodi Picoult
writing ivory-tower three
It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.
writing character shoes
I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.
writing kids hands
I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms.
writing thinking issues
I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.
writing mean different
The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.
writing garbage force
When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the biggest caveat for beginning writers. Instead, force yourself to finish what you began, and THEN go back and edit it.
writing might pages
You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
writing people fiction
The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people. John Grisham
writing people stories
I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.
writing long fiction
I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.
writing hints stories
An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you're going because you have to drop little hints along the way. With the outline, I always know where the story is going. So before I ever write, I prepare an outline of 40 or 50 pages.
writing hours desks
Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.
writing generosity use
Lehman uses many conveyances—including the prose poem, the sestina, and curt rhymes—to travel across the writing life of a poet whose instinctive romanticism is always bracing and tough-minded, brimming with a rare generosity. Ken Tucker
writing gardening magazines
I also enjoy writing my regular column for Organic Gardening magazine, so I may do more of that sort of thing in the future, if anybody wants it! Ken Thompson
writing ideas waste
When you get an idea, go and write. Don't waste it in conversation. Kenneth Koch
writing interesting details
Once I start writing about something, it goes off rather fast, and sometimes details which might be interesting such as what the room looked like or what somebody said that was not exactly on the same subject tend to get lost.
writing silence use
Also, I liked John Cage's music. I liked it for its craziness, the use of silence, the boldness-anything to get me away from writing about.. I don't know what academic poets write about.
writing looks able
I thought, 'There are a lot of poets who have the courage to look into the abyss, but there are very few who have the courage to look happiness in the face and write about it,' which is what I wanted to be able to do.
writing joy missing
The writing is a joy, so seamless you nearly miss the sheer artistry of the style and the terrific, wry humour. Ken Bruen
writing character thinking
I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult. Ken Follett
writing stories spare-time
I started writing stories in my spare time.
writing cutting long
We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.
writing love-is views
I prefer being known for my stand-up because I write it. I love being an actor, and saying other people's words is great. But then, when I do stand-up, I love getting my own point of view out there. Kathy Griffin
writing different letters
Letters are something from you. It's a different kind of intention than writing an e-mail. Keanu Reeves
writing thinking literature
What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now. Kazuo Ishiguro
writing ivory people
I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.
writing doe energy
There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.
writing past thinking
There's still a part of me that thinks I have to write a really good novel. I'm not trying to say I'm not happy with the novels I've written in the past. But it always feels to me like there's another one that I have to write that will really say what I want to say, and really paint this world that I can see hazily in my head.
writing ifs
I prefer writing for myself to perform, I guess. But if I had to choose, I'd rather perform in someone's movie than write a movie for someone else. Kristen Schaal
writing talking actors
It's weird talking about projects as an actor because you're so in them. I would prefer to write a paper and deliver it to everyone via e-mail. Kristen Stewart
writing skills want
I do want to work on writing, because writing's a skill. Writing is something that you can train yourself to know better. To know yourself better. And it's intimidating as hell.