Quotes about writ
writing interesting challenges
I write humor the way a surgeon operates, because it is a livelihood, because I have a great urge to do it, because many interesting challenges are set up, and because I have the hope it may do some good. James Thurber
writing drawing long
I drew pictures rapidly and with few lines, because I had to write most of the pieces, too, and couldn't monkey long with the drawings. The divine urge was no higher than that.
writing editing editors
Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counselling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'
writing justice glare
When all things are equal, translucence in writing is more effective than transparency, just as glow is more revealing than glare.
writing men
Neither man nor God is going to tell me what to write. James T. Farrell
writing thinking comforting
I typically don't adopt the ascetic approach. In part, that's because I do use the Net for research even as I'm writing (to check facts, or so on). But I think it's also because I find the possibility of distraction comforting. James Surowiecki
writing pieces delay
I tend to delay writing by doing more research - it's really the act of writing the piece that I have the hardest time with.
writing thinking hard-times
I tend to have a hard time working on pieces long before they're due. That's why I think the fact that I write a column is really good for me - the column has to be done, and there's no getting around it.
writing thinking perfect
I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets seemed to work well even though people are often irrational, lack good information and are not perfect in the way they think about decisions.
writing men thinking
One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case. James Payn
writing fiction stories
If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you tell it to somebody in a paragraph, they'll go, "Tell me more." And then when you start to write it, they continue to want to read more. And if you don't, it won't work. James Patterson
writing larger-than-life
I write larger than life. It's what I do.
writing joy four
I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It's very disciplined, yes, but it's joy for me.
writing paris pages
The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan, this is definitely a novel for you.
writing trying stories
Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.
writing want rooms
When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.
writing blow car
I'm big on having a blistering pace. That's one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that's not easy. I never blow up cars and things like that, so it's something else that keeps the suspense flowing. I try not to write a chapter that isn't going to turn on the movie projector in your head.
writing want diaries
If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others...become an author.
writing loafing productive
Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. James Norman Hall
writing cutting fats
Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning. James McBride
writing band making-money
I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music James Marsters
writing thinking self
Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become Norman Vincent Peale
writing people listening
I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening. Emilie Autumn
writing philosopher professors
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. Emile M. Cioran
writing proportion fling
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
writing men misery
The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.
writing next ifs
If I did anything 'next,' I would do writing. Ellen Muth
writing order land
I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is problematic because in production, you have to make the language lift off the page. But a good actor can turn it into human speech. I err sometimes toward having such a compound of images that if an actor lands heavily on each one, you never pull through to a larger idea. That's a problem for the audience. But I come to playwriting from the visual world - I used to be a painter. I also really love novels and that use of language. But it's tricky to ask that of the theatre. Ellen McLaughlin
writing care columns
You can teach someone who cares to write columns, but you can’t teach someone who writes columns to care. Ellen Goodman
writing people movement
People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning.
writing thinking firsts
Maybe at 20 you can write well, but I don't think you could do what I do. Some things have to happen to you first.
writing add few-words
I rewrite a great deal. I'm always fiddling, always changing something. I'll write a few words - then I'll change them. I add. I subtract. I work and fiddle and keep working and fiddling, and I only stop at the deadline.
writing imagination vivid
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember. Ellen Glasgow