Quotes about writ
writing stories literature
I'm writing a new love story, set in eastern North Carolina. Surprise, surprise, huh? Nicholas Sparks
writing fiction stories
Dramatic fiction - William Shakespeare made his biggest mark writing dramatic love stories.
writing tragedy stories
In all love stories the theme is love and tragedy, so by writing these types of stories, I have to include tragedy.
writing way dear
Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with each other at all.
writing simple ifs
You can't be a writer if you don't write, it's just that simple.
writing reality roots
I don't write fantasy, I write reality. Also, my novels have roots to Greek tragedies and as such, there has to be tragedy.
writing people challenges
What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.
writing romance novel
I don't write romance novels.
writing romance fiction
My novels are in the literature section as opposed to the romance section of bookstores because they're not romance novels. If I tried to have them published as romances, they'd be rejected. I write dramatic fiction; a further sub-genre would classify them as love stories.
writing ideas trying
In this world that we live in we have originality in literature, but we also have TV and movies. I write love stories. I could never write a love story based on the Titanic - that was never a novel. If I see an idea that's been done in film, I try to avoid that.
writing together different
I wanted to write a story that was different than what I've done before - so I decided to write dual love stories that will keep the reader wondering how the stories will come together by the end.
writing years forever
When I write to you, I feel your breath; when you read them, I imagine you feel mine. Is it that way with you too? These letters are part of us now, part of our history, a reminder forever that we made it through this time. Thank you for helping me survive this year, but more than that, thank you in advance for all the years to come.
writing doors two
Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.
writing want what-you-want
write what readers want to read, which isn’t necessarily what you want to write.
writing people age
One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response to it. You can see people respond to your work visually or musically or with writing. John Green
writing want revision
But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn't really emotionally ready to write about at ten.' 'Fair enough,' I say. 'But in the revision, I want to get some action.
writing funny-things dancing
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.
writing phrases paper
I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'.
writing order broken
I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken.
writing stories needs
The right story needs the right telling.
writing faces spit
Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.
writing work-out stuff
That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.
writing love-is trying
Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.
writing way different
Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
writing bored attention
Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.
writing reality trying
[My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable...My interest is in trying to reflect the reality of experience-how we feel when we talk to each other, how we feel when we're engaging with questions that interest us.
writing imagining-things
We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.
writing doe muggles
If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they're total muggles.
writing mind comedian
In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing. Patton Oswalt
writing
I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act.
writing thinking rocks
I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of myself as a performer. It's always been writing for me. I evolved with my band in rock 'n' roll through poetry, not through music. Patti Smith
writing thinking hair
If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.
writing rocks trying
I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.