Quotes about writ
writing two style
Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it. Haruki Murakami
writing shoes feet
You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.
writing long survival
Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.
writing swans ugly-duckling
I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind of an ugly duckling. Always the duckling, never the swan.
writing stories serious
I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much ... But when I write, I write weird. That's very strange. When I'm getting more and more serious, I'm getting more and more weird.
writing trying stories
In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.
writing style enjoy
I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.
writing gun stories
According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning what?" "Meaning, don't bring unnecessary props into a story. If a pistol appears, it has to be fired at some point. Chekhov liked to write stories that did away with all useless ornamentation.
writing together crumbling
It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.
writing men bars
I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing.
writing want mature
Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.
writing perfect insightful
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
writing waiting stories
When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
writing thinking artist
I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.
writing letters able
How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.
writing quality important
You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.
writing people needs
Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.
writing long letters
I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel
writing garden forests
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.
writing heart shadow
My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart...
writing people floating
Information is floating around really fast. I write something, or a piece of my music comes out and I see people writing about it on the Internet as if I'm having a conversation with them. We've never met, but somehow, my music is communicating something to them. Very often, it really makes them feel something. Hans Zimmer
writing ideas long
The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
writing feelings want
I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.
writing doctors flying
Everybody has a talent, whether it's scrapbooking, or kite-flying, or brain surgery, or writing, everybody has a talent. And if they discover it, and they turn it to their purposes and make a living out of it, then they become not "that person," but they become "that writer" or "that doctor" or "that supervisor." Harlan Ellison
writing editors editing
Anyone who can not write should.
writing holy chores
Writing is a holy chore.
writing mean discovery
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with serious intent involves enormous personal risk. It entails the ongoing courage for self-discovery. It means one will walk forever on the tightrope, with each new step presenting the possiblity of learning a truth about oneself that is too terrible to bear.
writing coward commodity
Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.
writing past rhythm
I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the pasture without rhythm or sense.
writing soul trying
What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.
writing doe warfare
Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story is what one does without question. But beyond that, any writer worth his/her hire knows that all writing, one way or another, is subversive. It is guerrilla warfare against the status quo.
writing holy millionaire
You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.
writing audience knows
I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.