Quotes about writ
writing class focus
Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the craft can. But a workshop where the trade is the principal focus of interest is not a writing workshop. It is a business class. Ursula K. Le Guin
writing doors fiction
I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more experimental writing, more literary writing, riskier writing. It wasn't all imitation Heinlein or Asimov. And of course, women were creeping in, infiltrating. Infesting the premises.
writing trying showing-up
I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
writing practice voice
What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.
writing fiction preacher
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
writing soul share
The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.
writing thinking self
I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . . . Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself.
writing technology fiction
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
writing heart my-heart
I write with all my heart
writing virginia law
There was one person who greatly and directly benefited my career--my agent Virginia Kidd. From 1968 to the late nineties she represented all my work, in every field except poetry. I could send her an utterly indescribable story, and she'd sell it to Playboy or the Harvard Law Review or Weird Tales or The New Yorker--she knew where to take it. She never told me what to write or not write, she never told me, That won't sell, and she never meddled with my prose.
writing people secret
Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.
writing stories want
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.
writing people texting
I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as they used to into writing letters. Tyne Daly
writing used-to-love used
I used to love writing in my journal. Tyra Banks
writing healthy trying
My nutritionist says, 'If you bite it, write it.' Writing down everything that you put in your mouth really helps. I don’t count a damn calorie. But when I’m really trying to eat healthy, I write everything down. It really holds me accountable and puts me on a healthier path.
writing creativity order
Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is a result of good work habits. That's it in a nutshell ... In order to be creative you have to know how to prepare to be creative. Twyla Tharp
writing order fool
I publish a piece in order to kill it, so that I won't have to fool around with it any longer. William H. Gass
writing reason
Getting even is one reason for writing.
writing editors habit
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.
writing expression movement
The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it.
writing fiction flesh
It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word
writing
Of the authors writing in English, I'd mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I'm afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures. William Golding
writing people mind
I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.
writing thinking community
Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.
writing thinking unique
Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don't think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
writing earth things-to-do
The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything. William Goldman
writing good-writers knows
A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite
writing protect
You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.
writing ideas dancing
Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.
writing world easy
One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.
writing wind wings
To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should dehumanize ourselves, feel the feel of feathers on our body and wind in our wings, and finally know what it is to leave abundance and safety and daylight and yield to a compelling instinct, age-old, seeming at the time quite devoid of reason and object. William Beebe
writing might originality
Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest, Like myself, however small, Like myself, or not at all. William Allingham
writing
Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.