Quotes about writ
writing boys cities
I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about. Salman Rushdie
writing thinking exception
In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
writing voice people
Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
writing drawing people
Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'
writing islam fiction
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
writing character thinking
I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they live in, to the story you have to tell, but just a kind of deep attention and out of that if you pay attention properly the story will tell you what it needs.
writing thinking vanity
When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you that is lacking in foibles and weaknesses and egotism and vanities and so on. You're just trying to really say something as truthful as you can out of the best that you have in you.
writing essence obvious-things
What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything down and find the kind of essence, the skeleton if you like, which can then be fleshed out by performance and cinematography.
writing people kind
As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.
writing self best-self
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
writing
I didn't become a writer to write about me.
writing knows who-you-are
Until you know who you are you can’t write.
writing forever cool-things
The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever. Ryan Tedder
writing advice done
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile. Rudy Rucker
writing soul way
I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close. Rudolf Steiner
writing comedy checks
In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good. Wendy Liebman
writing home phones
As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for yourself, because casting people aren't always going to see you the way you want to be seen. Write a one-person show, shoot a short film, do plays, whatever - activity breeds activity. No one's interested in a stay-at-home actress. Wendi McLendon-Covey
writing two upset
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it. Wendy Cope
writing people suggestions
Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.
writing mind easy
If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it. Wanda Jackson
writing thinking phones
I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone. Wanda Sykes
writing dumb asking
I'm like, If you do something dumb, I'll write about it. If you put something out there, to me it's like you're kind of asking for it.
writing interesting people
Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me. So I had to take the situation and invent stories to go with it. W. P. Kinsella
writing years people
Other people get into occupations by accident or design; but writers are born. I could work at selling motels, or slopping hogs, for fifty years, but if someone asked my occupation, I'd say writer, even if I'd never sold a word. Writers write. Other people talk.
writing watches fiction
I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
writing imagination interesting
Use your imagination. Trust me, your lives are not interesting. Don't write them down.
writing use lines
Read! Read! Read! And then read some more. When you find something that thrills you, take it apart paragraph by paragraph, line by line, word by word, to see what made it so wonderful. Then use those tricks next time you write.
writing giving patterns
A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom W. G. Sebald
writing knowing said
I had hardly begun to read I asked how can you ever be sure that what you write is really any good at all and he said you can't you can't you can never be sure you die without knowing whether anything you wrote was any good if you have to be sure don't write W. S. Merwin
writing good-love political
But most love poetry is awful; nobody knows how to write good love poetry either. But that's not a reason not to write love poetry. Some of the best poetry ever written has been love poetry, and some of the greatest poetry ever written has been political poetry.
writing years play
No good play is a success; fine writing and high morals are useless on the stage. I have been scribbling twaddle for thirty-five years to suit the public taste, and I should know. W. S. Gilbert
writing style matter
Every composer's music reflects in its subject-matter and in its style the source of the money the composer is living on while writing the music. Virgil Thomson
writing simple wish
The way to write American music is simple. All you have to do is be an American and then write any kind of music you wish.