Quotes about writ
writing way idiot
I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen. Joe Eszterhas
writing cutting thinking
Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life.
writing political want
What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts. Joan D. Vinge
writing perfect goddess
Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.
writing journalism selling
Writers are always selling somebody out. Joan Didion
writing color water
When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more like water color.
writing different fiction
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.
writing answers novel
Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.
writing elements performances
Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.
writing trying doe
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle.
writing thinking
We write to discover what we think.
writing research matter
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.
writing cameras structure
To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.
writing catharsis
I don't write for catharsis; I have to write to understand.
writing acting actors
I can't imagine writing if I didn't have a reader. Any more than an actor can imagine acting without an audience.
writing thinking knows
I don't know what I think until I write it down.
writing typewriters use
I use an IBM Thinkpad. I just use it like a typewriter, but when I started using it in 1987, I thought I won't be able to write anymore, so I thought I'd go back to the typewriter. But you couldn't go back to the typewriter after using the computer.
writing looks may
When you write, you're always revealing a difficult part of yourself. It may not be a part of yourself that looks as difficult - there are parts that look more difficult - but in fact, they are all difficult, and you get kind of used to doing that. It is sort of the nature of the thing.
writing order stories
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
writing filling-in process
My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's going on, and you go back and bring it up to that point.
writing people mind
Writing is the act of saying "I," of imposing oneself upon other people, of saying "listen to me, see it my way, change your mind."
writing home trying
The impulse for much writing is homesickness. You are trying to get back home, and in your writing you are invoking that home, so you are assuaging the homesickness.
writing thinking want
On the whole, I don't want to think too much about why I write what I write. If I know what I'm doing ... I can't do it.
writing feels
There must be times when everybody writes when they feel they're evading writing.
writing thinking want
If you want to understand what you're thinking, you kind of have to work it through and write it. And the only way to work it through, for me, is to write it.
writing thinking blue
Writing is always a way, for me, of coming to some sort of understanding that I can't reach otherwise.It forces you to think. It forces you to work the thing through. Nothing comes to us out of the blue, very easily.
writing leaving pieces
There is always a point in the writing of a piece when I sit in a room literally papered with false starts and cannot put one word after another and imagine that I have suffered a small stroke, leaving me apparently undamaged but actually aphasic.
writing light oxygen
It occurs to me as I write that this "white light," usually presented dippily (evidence of afterlife, higher power), is in fact precisely consistent with the oxygen deficit that occurs as blood flow to the brain decreases. "Everything went white," those whose blood pressure has dropped say of the instant before they faint.
writing thinking matter
You think you have some stable talent which will show no matter what you're writing, and if it doesn't seem to be getting across to the audience once, you can't imagine that moment when it suddenly will.
writing sound humans
I know that sounds cliché, but mostly from my own experiences and things I see around me. We're all human beings, and a lot of the things I write about are pretty universal things. Joan Jett
writing trying records
When I came back to it, we amicably separated from Warner Bros. I just picked up where I left off, trying to write the rest of this record. It took awhile to get out.
writing enemy paper
That's the horrible thing starting out, you get distracted a lot because anything is easier than writing. It's just the same enemy - blank paper. Jimmy Breslin
writing easy
Anything that isn't writing is easy