Quotes about writ
writing stories sitting
I always write a story in one sitting. Katherine Anne Porter
writing demand doe
Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.
writing goal grace
If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace.
writing rose shining
I came upon a telegram from Eleanor Roosevelt herself to Gypsy Rose Lee that read, 'May your bare ass always be shining'. That was the clincher; I had to write about this woman. Karen Abbott
writing men elude-us
Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on the road. Henceforth, we will catch only a fleeting glimpse of it -- in the study of sacred writings, in other human beings, in liturgy, and in communion with strangers. But these moments remain us that our fellow men and women are themselves sacred; there is something about them taht is worthy of absolute reverence, is in the last resort mysterious, and we will always elude us. Karen Armstrong
writing world study
I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live by the Golden Rule. This is what drives my writing. I want to point out this interconnectedness, point out the beauty of the faith in all traditions without exception, show the complexity of the atrocities that we have experienced, and our shared culpability as a species.
writing telling-the-truth reason
You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth. Katharine Hepburn
writing want fiction
I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest. Kate Grenville
writing long desire
Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.
writing want disturbed
If you want to write, you have to be willing to be disturbed. Kate Green
writing important austen
It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding. Karen Joy Fowler
writing true-life type
I write about true-life type things. Karen Kingsbury
writing stories trials
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
writing thinking stories
And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way. Karen Russell
writing trying favorites-things
I really try to write every day. It's hard, but it's my favorite thing to do, so it's usually not too, too hard.
writing thinking secret
It's funny to think about the uncanny reflexively, as an author who is perhaps gradually becoming aware of my own hidden secrets. Accessing that shadowy territory really requires the physical act of writing.
writing self perfection
Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.
writing people ifs
If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say. Justin Sane
writing stuff comedic
I feel more comfortable writing firmly comedic or slightly comedic stuff. Justin Theroux
writing thinking would-be
As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon - there is often a "variorum" edition of the work that presents its variants. I think publishing most other writing that way would be impossible, economically, for publishers, and very ill-advised for authors. Judith Thurman
writing one-day stories
I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide. Judy Blume
writing changed changing-my-life
When you ask, Did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.
writing listening teach
Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.
writing care
The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.
writing fiction
I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.
writing years people
My size is an asset to me. People write roles for me. If I was just another blond-haired, brown-eyed, 18-year-old actor, I'd be left unrecognized. People remember me. Josh Ryan Evans
writing reality interesting
And then, once you've written, you meet producers and directors and actors. You get to meet interesting, talented, creative, artistic people, and it also staves off a bit of creative stagnation when you can't act, which is the reality of the industry. So often, you can't act because there are just too many cars and not enough car parks. But, I love writing and I'll never stop doing that. Josh Lawson
writing thinking people
I hope I never have to stop acting. I love it. But, I think the coolest thing about acting is working with these amazing people all the time, and writing represented a new way to meet those people and to tell stories, at the same time, which I've always wanted to do, and to tell jokes. I love comedy, so writing was a way of getting these jokes that I had down on the page.
writing people stories
I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I wanted to work with people that I respected and liked.
writing hip-hop culture
I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC. Josh Peck
writing levels sometimes
I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level. Josh Radnor
writing feelings different
If I'm feeling something, I have a lot of different ways to express it, you know? I can write an article about it. I can write a screenplay about it. I can act in someone's thing.
writing moments theme
What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.