Quotes about writ
writing wanted
He is exactly the poem I wanted to write. Mary Oliver
writing littles way
I like to feel that every day or most days, I do a little bit of writing. I am a creature of habit in terms of the way I live. Mary Chapin Carpenter
writing church doctrine
This doctrine of Christ and of the apostles, from which the true faith of the primitive church was received, the apostles at first delivered orally, without writing, but later, not by any human counsel but by the will of God, they handed it on in the Scriptures. Martin Chemnitz
writing outsiders
You have to be an outsider to write, Martin Cruz Smith
writing idiot used
I used to be treated like an idiot, now I'm treated like an idiot savant.
writing scene passing
It was like passing the scene of a highway accident and being relieved to learn that nobody had been seriously injured.
writing holiday home
It's been said that happiness writes white. It doesn't show up on the page. When you're on holiday and writing a letter home to a friend, no one wants a letter that says the food is good and the weather is charming and the accommodations comfortable. You want to hear about lost passports and rat-filled shacks. Martin Amis
writing giving faithful
It's not that you get a cliché and then wiggle it about or use synonyms. You don't take an ordinary decorative paragraph and give it style. What you're trying to do is be faithful to your perceptions and transmit them as faithfully as you can. I say these sentences until they sound right. There's no objective reason why they're right. They just sound right to me.
writing thinking choices
Much modern prose is praised for its terseness, its scrupulous avoidance of curlicue, etcetera. But I don't feel the deeper rhythm there. I don't think these writers are being terse out of choice. I think they are being terse because it's the only way they can write.
writing talking age
We live in the age of mass loquacity.We are all writing it or at any rate talking it: the memoir, the apologia, the c.v., the cri de coeur.
writing register i-can
I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write,
writing two different
All novelists write in a different way, but I always write in longhand and then do two versions of typescript on a computer.
writing wake-up want
This (writing) is the love of your life. It's what I want to do when I wake up. Nothing feels so absorbing, so fulfilling.
writing sound again-and-again
I say the sentences again and again in my head until they sound right.
writing hypnosis secret
When things are going well, you do have the sense that what you’re writing is being fed to you in some way. Auden compared writing a poem to cleaning an old piece of slate until the letters appear. The only way you could reveal your god is perhaps under hypnosis. It’s sacred and it’s secret, even to the writer.
writing kind late
Often it doesn't occur to you what kind of novel you're writing until quite late on.
writing heaven novel
You can't sort of write the novel as if you're taking dictation from heaven.
writing abuse injustice
No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. And the great satirists, like Swift and Dickens, tend to write about abuses and injustices that have already been partially corrected - you write about it after it's over.
writing heart mind
To idealize: all writing is a campaign against cliché. Not just clichés of the pen but clichés of the mind and clichés of the heart.
writing hands long
I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow.
writing eye people
Seeing the world anew, as if it were new, is as old as writing. It's what all painters are trying to do, to see what's there, to see it in a way that renews it. It becomes more and more urgent as the planet gets worn flat and forest after forest is slain to print the paper for people's impressions to be scrawled down on. It becomes harder and harder to be original, to see things with an innocent eye. Innocence is much tied up with it. As the planet gets progressively less innocent, you need a more innocent eye to see it.
writing dumb reader
Don't dumb down; always write for your top five percent of readers.
writing way talent
Faith is a talent, and it goes the way of all your talents. Getting old is the subtraction of your powers. Which very much goes for writing.
writing government long
As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything. Pierre Beaumarchais
writing years two
My first published novel, American Rust, took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice novels before that. Philipp Meyer
writing world classical-music
I was not born into the world of the stuntman and the daredevil; I was born into the world of theater and writing and sculpting and classical music. Philippe Petit
writing political done
I'm writing a political comedy that takes place in Canada in Quebec. It's funny. Saying political comedy is a little redundant but it's a first. I've never done any comedy per se. Philippe Falardeau
writing years long
When I want to tackle a story or a subject, I always ask myself three questions: Is it important to talk about that? Will it interest other people than just me? Can I live with that for three or four years because that's how long it takes to do the project, to write the script, and to direct it, and then to do this.
writing thinking canada
In Canada, I've had success raising money. I think I was fortunate enough. But today, I would have to write a very, very bad script not to be financed for the next one. I'm assured at least of the next one, but you're always [only] as good as your last film. I think it's true for anyone.
writing thinking two
I will see 100 or 200 and I will take my time with them and I audition them for the two main roles. If I like what I see, but they're not exactly right for the role, I'll think well I have this other role that might work for them. Sometimes I will write a role for them because I want to work with them because they're so good.
writing scratches creation
If youre writing a screenplay from scratch, it involves a lot of creation.
writing historical three
The apostolic writings are of three kinds: historical, didactic, and prophetic. Philip Schaff
writing home thinking
Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home. Philip Levine