Quotes about writ
writing alive dull
The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it. Helen Dunmore
writing want stills
Finish the day's writing when you still want to continue.
writing long-walks pieces
A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.
writing white numbers
It's amazing how much time and money can be saved in the world of dating by close attention to detail. A white sock here, a pair of red braces there, a gray slip-on shoe, a swastika, are as often as not all one needs to tell you there's no point in writing down phone numbers and forking out for expensive lunches because it's never going to be a runner. Helen Fielding
writing thinking confusion
I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.
writing finance bridget-jones
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.
writing people diaries
The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.
writing people hurtful
For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person from writing whatever they want. What's harmful and hurtful is when people speculate. John Krasinski
writing reflection self
Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret. Johann Sebastian Bach
written practicality
My things really are written with an appalling lack of practicality! Johannes Brahms
writing men creating
How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating.
writing trying purity
If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.
writing age occupation
Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23. Johanna Lindsey
writing doe lines
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
writing men light
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.
writing history sin
Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
writing originality said
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.
writing past history
Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
writing busy idleness
Writing is busy idleness.
writing fiction problem
One of the surprising things I hadn't expected when I decided to write crime fiction is how much you are expected to be out in front of the public. Some writers aren't comfortable with that. I don't have a problem with that. Kathy Reichs
writing intimidating novel
I wanted to be a writer, but the idea of writing novels or movies seemed really intimidating. I never got more than a few pages into one. Kurt Busiek
writing listening-to-music manuscripts
I don't listen to music when I write - I find it distracting. Khaled Hosseini
writing credibility aspiring-writers
The short of it is, as an aspiring writer, there is nothing as damaging to your credibility as saying that you don't like to read.
writing rewriting
Writing for me is largely about rewriting.
writing literature tradition
There isn't, even now, a great tradition of novel-writing in Afghanistan. Most of the literature is in the form of poetry.
writing thinking romance
The experience of writing 'The Kite Runner' is one I will always think back on with fondness. There is an energy, a romance in writing the first novel that can never be duplicated again.
writing stories way
I grew up with some kind of storytelling instinct, and when I write, my default setting is to find a story and then to tell it. It's the only way I know how to write.
writing nuts medicine
I don't know the nuts and bolts of writing. I studied medicine. I was a pre-med nerd. So everything I learned, I know about writing is very instinctive.
writing eighteen
Even after The Kite Runner was published I continued to practice for another eighteen months. But I had always had a love of writing and a compulsion to do it.
writing novel short-story
Though The Kite Runner was my first completed novel, I had been writing on and off for most of my life, primarily short stories, and primarily for myself.
writing work-out worry
It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out.
writing successful whole-life
By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of my whole life, which was to write for a living.
writing choices waiting
All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.