Quotes about writ
writing data research
To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. F. Scott Fitzgerald
writing cutting epic
Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.
writing people trying
Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.
writing swimming history
All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.
writing stories chairs
Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.
writing individual type
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find you have created - nothing.
writing tired world
If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired
writing hard
Nothing any good isn't hard.
writing heart interesting
You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell.
writing ideas wish
I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.
writing want facts
The reason one writes isn't the fact he wants to say something. He writes because he has something to say.
writing keys needs
Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story.
writing people flattery
You can stroke people with words.
writing wife paper
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife. Evelyn Waugh
writing careers healthy
Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as a healthy counterpoise to unintelligent praise.
writing curiosity age
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
writing departure metaphor
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
writing dust order
Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.
writing want ifs
It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write. Evan Davis
writing wish roles
I wish writing was a talent that I had. I've tried. Unfortunately, I'm just not talented in the writing department. But, if I was, I would just write complicated roles for women because there's a lack of them. Eva Mendes
writing ideas want
I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't want to be going through. It was too much for me to process and all of a sudden I had this idea for my first feature film and I knew right away I had to start writing it. Evan Glodell
writing understood
To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything. Eugene Delacroix
writing theatre hated
I started writing for the theatre because I hated it. Eugene Ionesco
writing choices kind
[On writing:] What a difficult kind of work to choose! But of course one did not choose it. There was no choice. Ivy Compton-Burnett
writing novelists originals
The most original novelist now writing in English.
writing play needs
I felt no need to write a German-bashing play. Israel Horovitz
writing play stories
I have never written a play, a story, a poem, or my one film - anything - unless something was troubling me enough, wrecking me, in fact, to drive me back into the absurdity of writing. I do not enjoy writing.
writing people age
There never was such an age in which so many people were able to write badly. Israel Zangwill
writing immensity
It is only through the confining act of writing that the immensity of the nonwritten becomes legible Italo Calvino
writing cities people
My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight. I have tried to remove weight, sometimes from people, sometimes from heavenly bodies, sometimes from cities; above all I have tried to remove weight from the structure of stories and from language. . . . Maybe I was only then becoming aware of the weight, the inertia, the opacity of the world--qualities that stick to the writing from the start, unless one finds some way of evading them.
writing wells ifs
How well I would write if I were not here!
writing men great-work
Any woman or man who would write the truth of their lives would write a great work. But no one has dared to write the truth of their lives. Isadora Duncan
writing should-have matter
The first essential in writing about anything is that the writer should have no experience of the matter.