Quotes about writ
writing people trying
Try not to write the parts that people skip. Elmore Leonard
writing good-day four
I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.
writing sin adverbs
Using adverbs is a mortal sin.
writing inspire sound
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
writing want reader
I don't want the reader to be aware of me as the writer.
writing may narrative
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.
writing advice important
My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.
writing people different
I had to introduce a lot of people into my writing environment which I thought at first I would find really difficult, but I actually found that I loved it. It meant that I was meeting different people; it meant that I was expressing myself in different ways. Ella Henderson
writing emotion certain
Words are impotent to describe certain emotions. Ella Maillart
writing able
I've never been able to write for stand-up. Elayne Boosler
writing attractive-things difficult
Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write. Edward St Aubyn
writing want favour
I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the author would just feed on the reviews - so I'm in favour of starving him.
writing
You have to write a lot. And you have to rewrite what you wrote a lot more. Holly Black
writing eye voice
The musician writes for the orchestra what his inner voice sings to him; the painter rarely relies without disadvantage solely upon the images which his inner eye presents to him; nature gives him his forms, study governs his combinations of them. Hermann Ebbinghaus
writing challenges artistic
I regard the writing of humor as a supreme artistic challenge. Herman Wouk
writing pages add
Write a page a day. It will add up.
writing broken trying
I try to write a certain amount each day, five days a week. A rule sometimes broken is better than no rule.
writing blue black
Painting is marvelous; it makes you happier and more patient. Afterwards you do not have black fingers as with writing, but blue and red ones. Hermann Hesse
writing feet able
If my life were not a dangerous, painful experiment, if I did not constantly skirt the abyss and feel the void under my feet, my life would have no meaning and I would not have been able to write anything.
writing literature growing
Among the letters my readers write me, there is a certain category which is continuously growing, and which I see as a symptom of the increasing intellectualization of the relationship between readers and literature.
writing superfluous
Many a poem is marred by a superfluous word. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
writing biographies
A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely.
writing past milton
Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton.
writing heart looks
Look, then, into thine heart, and write!
writing numbers bird
Tolstoi explains somewhere in his writings why, in his opinion, "Science for Science's sake" is an absurd conception. We cannot know all the facts since they are infinite in number. We must make a selection ... guided by utility ... Have we not some better occupation than counting the number of lady-birds in existence on this planet? Henri Poincare
writing written related
Everything that I have written is closely related to something that I have lived through. Henrik Ibsen
writing feelings baths
Writing has... been to me like a bath from which I have risen feeling cleaner, healthier, and freer.
writing would-be use
The sign is determined at the moment I use it and for the object of which it must form a part. For this reason I cannot determine in advance signs which never change, and which would be like writing: that would paralyze the freedom of my invention. Henri Matisse
writing boundaries connected
I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend ecclesial boundaries. Henri Nouwen
writing thinking ideas
People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life.
writing journey space
The deepest satisfaction of writing is precisely that it opens up new spaces within us of which we were not aware before we started to write. To write is to embark on a journey whose final destination we do not know.
writing community solitude
Solitude is very different from a 'time-out' from our busy lives. Solitude is the very ground from which community grows. Whenever we pray alone, study, read, write, or simply spend quiet time away from the places where we interact with each other directly, we are potentially opened for a deeper intimacy with each other.
writing thinking trying
I want the plot to be as complicated as possible. Usually I'll write all the way through to an end, and then I go back and try to fix the ending so that it makes sense. I don't think out the plot ahead of time. Heidi Julavits