Quotes about writ
writing dark civilization
He felt himself in suspension between the two worlds, the warm, neat civilization behind his back, the cool, dark mystery outside. We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words. John Fowles
writing garden creating
The diary will really try and tell people who you are and what you were. The alternative is writing nothing, or creating a totally lifeless, as it is leafless, garden.
writing reading-poetry poetry
We all write poems; it is simply that poets are the ones who write in words.
writing doubt mind
On the whole, dialogue is the most difficult thing, without any doubt. It's very difficult, unfortunately. You have to detach yourself from the notion of a lifelike quality. You see, actually lifelike, tape-recorded dialogue like this has very little to do with good novel dialogue. It's a matter of getting that awful tyranny of mimesis out of your mind, which is difficult.
writing needs alternatives
There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.
writing careers two
Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what might be called the awkward age-too old to begin a new career and too young to write my memoirs. John F. Kennedy
writing army america
To exclude from positions of trust and command all those below the age of 44 would have kept Jefferson from writing the Declaration of Independence, Washington from commanding the Continental Army, Madison from fathering the Constitution, Hamilton from serving as secretary of the treasury, Clay from being elected speaker of the House and Christopher Columbus from discovering America.
writing thinking done
Now, I don't expect what I write to change things. I think I write now simply as a witness. This is how it is. This is what we have done. This is what we have permitted. Jonathan Kozol
writing silence horror
I have a horror of silence while I'm writing. It's like the universe is howling at me if I don't have it. Jonathan Lethem
writing effort want
So much of the effort that goes into writing prose for me is about making sentences that capture the music that I'm hearing in my head. It takes a lot of work, writing, writing, and rewriting to get the music exactly the way you want it to be.
writing interesting world
The world's large enough and interesting enough to take a different approach each time you sit down to write about it.
writing sometimes screwed-up
I don't write about anything I don't love even if that love sometimes gets all screwed up and tormented.
writing littles esoteric
As much as I revere great writing, and am still humbled by it, literary activities are no longer esoteric to me. When I read a great novel - something that I could never have written myself - I'm still looking at it a little bit like a technician.
writing order paint
I don't paint anymore. I haven't since I abandoned it at 19, in order to begin writing seriously.
writing space long
I plan less and less. It's a great benefit of writing lots, that you get good at holding long narratives in your head like a virtual space.
writing discipline fields
Writing is a private discipline, in a field of companions.
writing expectations want
It's now expected of me that I will defy expectation, so I really generally seem to be free to write what I want.
writing mind body
Writing is physical for me. I always have the sense that the words are coming out of my body, not just my mind.
writing kind fantastic
Fantastic writing in English is kind of disreputable, but fantastic writing in translation is the summit.
writing bored way
I learned to write fiction the way I learned to read fiction - by skipping the parts that bored me.
writing experts kind
Even though my entire writing persona is prefaced on me not being an expert, I kind of am an expert. I know a lot. Jonathan Gold
writing reviews interest
I write mostly positive reviews. I don't write about places that don't interest me.
writing artist play
I love acting in the theater,but I'm fascinated with acting on film. If it's a film or a play or whatever, if the writing is good and you really feel passionate about it, you just can't lose. You'll grow from it. Whether it's a success or not is neither here nor there; you're going to grow as an artist from this experience. Jonathan Groff
writing character thinking
I try to write things that can't be made into movies. My novels have thwarted many attempts to film them and I think that was true of the essay, too. If you'd actually tried to be true to the essay, it would have been, perhaps, boring. So taking that narrow little cast of characters and expanding it out, that was what was exciting about the project for me. Jonathan Franzen
writing thinking shapes
I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly.
writing nonfiction enjoy
I really enjoy doing both, but I didn't write nonfiction until 1994.
writing spectators reader
The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.
writing interesting verbs
Interesting verbs are seldom very interesting.
writing fiction connections
It's doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.
writing decision scary
The place of stillness that you have to go to to write, but also to read seriously, is the point where you can actually make responsible decisions, where you can actually engage productively with an otherwise scary and unmanageable world.
writing errors wales
While I have corrected agreed factual errors, I have not been inhibited from writing what I felt to be the truth about The Prince of Wales. Jonathan Dimbleby
writing sometimes
And sometimes I sit down to write, because that is what I like to do more and more in the future. Jonathan Brandis
writing careers actors
I want to be remembered as an actor who put in some good work in the beginning of his career, even better work at the end of his career and slowly, successfully made the transition into writing and directing.