Quotes about writ
writing character math
The Mathematician's Shiva is a brilliant and compelling family saga full of warmth, pathos, history, and humor, not to mention a cast of delightfully quirky characters, and a math lesson or two; all together, a winning equation! When Rojstaczer writes about mathematics, you'd think he was writing about poetry. Jonathan Evison
writing humans human-beings
As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you? Jonathan Coe
writing ideas two
I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.
writing wife littles
As I said, I had no publisher for What a Carve Up! while I was writing it, so all we had to live off was my wife's money and little bits I was picking up for journalism.
writing impact mad
You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.
writing political intimate
It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.
writing trying dangerous
I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience. Jonathan Carroll
writing wife mind
I find you write with one person in mind. Usually for me that one person is my wife, because she's my most severe critic and understands best what I'm trying to do.
writing damn bites
Just write about what bites you and damn the rest.
writing thinking today
If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.
writing long stories
Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.
writing alive today
If Franz Kafka were alive today he'd be writing about customer service. Jonathan Alter
writing thinking pockets
Just as in writing, there are novelistic and sort of pedestrian ways of telling a story, to write a postcard with your little pocket camera and put it on websites. I think that's where the most exciting kind of imagery and content is being recorded and exchanged today. Jonas Mekas
writing writing-poetry
I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry.
writing just-friends may
No one I interact with - except maybe for family and strangers at the Russian baths and other weird places I may go to - is just friends or lovers with me: they also know something of my writing and this distorts their take on me Jonathan Ames
writing landscape action
A lot of writing is a form of seeing - putting down what you see in terms of action and landscape.
writing
To write about a place, you have to live there.
writing thinking long
It's hard for me to think of writing a novel, because it takes so long.
writing firsts sides
I write in English first, and then I translate to Spanish. I've always felt more comfortable with the English side of things first. Jon Secada
writing taught-us monkeys
Harlow would later write, "If monkeys have taught us anything, it's that you've got to learn how to love before you learn how to live. Jonah Lehrer
writing heart play
I started writing and acting in these little plays and then I was discovered by Dustin Hoffman. He got me my first audition for a film he was in, called 'I Heart Huckabees.' Jonah Hill
writing goal produce
I just like to act and write and produce. To me, making movies is the ultimate goal.
writing acting actors
Writing has made me a better actor. Acting has made me a better writer. So why wouldn't directing make me a better actor and writer?
writing careers want
I always say I want to eventually shift my career to directing and writing.
writing editors scary
By this point, it was clear she wasn't interested in continuing the relationship. What publication on earth would continue a relationship with a writer who would refuse to discuss her work with her editors? What publication would continue to publish a writer who attacked it on TV? What publication would continue to publish a writer who lied about it - on TV and to a Washington Post reporter? ... It's true: Ann is fearless, in person and in her writing. But fearlessness isn't an excuse for crappy writing or crappier behavior. Jonah Goldberg
writing critics ifs
If you write for the critics, only the critics will read you.
writing hot stones
What I like to do is come in, write the entire program and treat my staff to hot stone massages. Jon Stewart
writing psychology degrees
The psychology degree is simply that I was a chemistry major, and they kept wanting the correct answer, whereas in psychology you basically write whatever you want, and chances are you get a B.
writing thinking next-day
When my syndicated show got canceled, the next day I still knew how to write jokes. That was a huge revelation. Because at first you think, "I won't have any shelter! What am I gonna do? The sun is hot. Very thirsty."
writing jigsaw-puzzles class
In a chemistry class there was a guy sitting in front of me doing what looked like a jigsaw puzzle or some really weird kind of thing. He told me he was writing a computer program. Jon Postel
writing editors remember
Critics sometimes appear to be addressing themselves to works other than those I remember writing. Joyce Carol Oates
writing silence use
The use of language is all we have to pit against death and silence.
writing years ideas
'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.