Quotes about writ
writing impact stronger
I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form. Isabel Allende
writing names forgotten
Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.
writing two three
The first two, three, four weeks are wasted. I just show up in front of the computer. Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn't show up invited, eventually she just shows up.
writing dry-up soul
If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.
writing exercise longing
Writing is a constant exercise in longing.
writing space use
From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.
writing reality confusion
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!
writing men white-man
If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always White men who do that and you don't have the voices that are really interesting to me, of the people who are not sheltered by the big umbrella of the establishment.
writing too-much persons
If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving...
writing worry making-love
Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
writing forgotten should
Write what should not be forgotten.
writing muse shows
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.
writing unity doe
Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short. Irving Howe
writing suggestions anecdotes
Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.
writing wish want
How much there is I want to do! I always feel that I haven't time to accomplish what I wish. I want to read much. I wanted to write a great deal. I want to make money. Irving Fisher
writing sea tuition
When I was confronted with official tuition, the academic thing, I could see no relationship whatever between that and the music I'd been writing since I was 11.
writing want pieces
I always write the pieces I want to write.
writing ideas pages
There are rhythmic ideas which sometimes only work up to a point. In writing there are moments when it just comes off the page, it's not just a collection of notes.
writing people becoming
People say my music is English. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's not me writing English music, but that English music is becoming more like me.
writing music-is basic-things
One thing I've tried to do in writing music is take on very basic things, very archetypal things.
writing film inevitable
Failures are inevitable. Unfortunately, in film they live for ever and they're 40 ft wide and 20 ft high. Harrison Ford
writing iceland trying
I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing Burial Rites, I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry. Hannah Kent
writing use want
If you want to do anything, you got to go do it. Perform a lot, write a lot, make yourself better. Use the Internet, make videos, create content. Hannibal Buress
writing simple class
My plan of instruction is extremely simple and limited. They learn, on week-days, such coarse works as may fit them for servants. I allow of no writing for the poor. My object is not to make fanatics, but to train up the lower classes in habits of industry and piety. Hannah More
writing ideas creative
I can be completely indulgent and spend as many hours and days or weeks as I like on one thing. Writing music and sitting in my studio, just pottering with ideas, it's a lot more personal and creative for me, I don't feel restricted. Guy Pearce
writing editing issues
Writing is therapeutic. It helps you cope with issues that seem gargantuan at the time. The process of expressing yourself about a problem, editing your thoughts, and writing some more can help you control issues that you face. Guy Kawasaki
writing enemy good-writing
Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing.
writing engineers
For me writing is as close to being an engineer as possible.
writing community mediocre
It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.
writing way enchantment
Writing is one way to achieve enchantment.
writing flow goodness
Writing is the starting point from which all goodness (and crappiness) flows.
writing stories
I've been taking longer to write stories lately.
writing long gaps
I've supported myself by writing since 1992, and I'm probably very nearly unemployable by now because employers are likely to be put off by the long gap.