Quotes about writ
writing voice relaxation
Criticism is, for me, like essay writing, a wonderful way of relaxation; it doesn't require a heightened and mediated voice, like prose fiction, but rather a calm, rational, even conversational voice. Joyce Carol Oates
writing numbers ideas
Before you can write a novel you have to have a number of ideas that come together. One idea is not enough.
writing dark challenges
I write in longhand and assemble lots of notes, and then I try to collate them into a coherent chronology. It's like groping along in the dark. I like writing and find it challenging, but I don't find it easy.
writing age twenties
I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.
writing letters hours
When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day. At those times, it's as though I'm writing a letter to someone I'm desperately in love with.
writing might
My writing is full of lives I might have led.
writing goal wasting-time
Any writer who has difficulty in writing is probably not onto his true subject, but wasting time with false, petty goals; as soon as you connect with your true subject you will write.
writing mystery appeals
The appeal of writing is primarily the investigation of mystery.
writing grandmother typewriters
When I was very little, four or five, I did comic strip drawings, so my first novel had no words. I couldn't write and thought adult handwriting was a mysterious scribble. When I was 14, my grandmother gave me a typewriter and I started writing in a different way.
writing lucky ifs
You are writing for your contemporaries - not for Posterity. If you are lucky, your contemporaries will become Posterity.
writing opportunity stories
My writing is often a way of 'bearing witness' for others who lack the education and the opportunity to tell their own stories, so I hope that my writing won't be affected too much by my personal life.
written my-time revising
I probably spend 90% of my time revising what I've written.
writing voice emotion
When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.
writing materials knows
Writing is a consequence of having been 'haunted' by material. Why this is, no one knows.
writing imagination routine
The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine.
writing thoughtful preparation
When poets - write about food it is usually celebratory. Food as the thing-in-itself, but also the thoughtful preparation of meals, the serving of meals, meals communally shared: a sense of the sacred in the profane.
writing scientist metaphorical
If I'm writing, I'll say something metaphorical or approximate, whereas scientists are very precise.
writing different pseudonyms
It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation - but, then I couldn't be myself either.
writing hard
It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.
writing people periods
Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write.
writing lost has-beens
One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.
writing crafts austerity
On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.
writing different impossible
It's impossible to read a distinctive stylist like Faulkner, Joyce, Kafka, Mann, Woolf, James - and many more - without wanting to write, however entirely different one's writing will be.
writing men class
while there are 'women writers' there are not, and have never been, 'men writers.' This is an empty category, a class without specimens; for the noun 'writer' - the very verb 'writing' - always implies masculinity.
writing ironic moral
"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.
writing perspective political
It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.
writing
Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.
writing
Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.
writing soul cards
I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.
writing finals firsts
The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.
writing apology want
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
writing my-family
I do a lot of writing about my family. Katey Sagal
writing terrible-times finished
Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more. Kate Atkinson