Quotes about writ
writing doors stories
You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door. Michael Koryta
writing love-is process
What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.
writing thinking focus-and-concentration
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools. Michael LeBoeuf
writing soul trying
Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation. Sidney Lanier
writing exciting novel
Writing novels is the most exciting Sidney Sheldon
writing world research
I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it
writing men important
I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power - their femininity, because men can't do without it.
writing pieces paper
A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.
writing
Writing only leads to more writing. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
writing judging down-and
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
writing quitting
I'm going to quit writing. Sidney Poitier
writing ifs creative-writing
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. Sholem Asch
writing joy desire
I don't know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone, the desire to not be alone, the attempts we make to find our person, to keep our person, to convince our person to not leave us alone, the joy of being with our person and thus no longer alone, the devastation of being left alone. The need to hear the words: You are not alone. Shonda Rhimes
writing one-day permission
Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you. Sherri Shepherd
writing tired order
I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it. Sherman Alexie
writing pieces thanks
When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
writing bored effort
I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.
writing blood remember
I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
writing pages
Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
writing years two
I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the thing you love most. I loved alcohol the most, loved it more than anybody or anything. That's what I wrote about. And it certainly accounted for some great writing. But it accounted for two or three years of good writing - it would never account for 20 years of good writing. I would have turned into Charles Bukowski. He wrote 10,000 poems and 10 of them were great.
writing literature condescension-and
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.
writing film ifs
I can't do a film if I don't start with the writing. Neil Jordan
writing two years
I took two years away from making films to write a novel.
writing fans ships
I communicate with fans on Twitter. I enjoy the ability to impulsively write something and ship it out to the fans and fellow tweeters out there. Neil Diamond
writing thinking years
My writing is different. I think it's better. I think it's deeper. But, strangely enough, it covers a lot of the old ground. Maybe it says it in a more sophisticated way ... but I [have written] about basically the same subjects over the years.
writing wings ideas
I've always thought of music as something which gives the words their flight and their wings and the music often comes first, although sometimes I'll have a concept, a title idea, a lyric idea that I want to write and the lyric will come first.
writing heart light
I may have a little bit of a talent for music, but I've learnt to tap into my own self when I write. When I put the drill bit inside my heart, sometimes I come up with something light and frothy, sometimes with something deep and painful, but it's great to connect with the audience.
writing dying
When I am not writing, I'm dying.
writing mystery knows
There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from.
writing people pluto
Why can't Pluto be a planet? Some people like Pluto. And if it doesn't exist then they don't have a favorite planet. Right? Please write back but not in cursive because I can't read cursive. Neil deGrasse Tyson
writing perspective trying
All tweets are tasty. Any tweet anybody writes is tasty. So, I try to have each tweet not simply be informative, but have some outlook, some perspective that you might not otherwise had.
writing sea people
Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms.
writing dark thinking
She decides to make a list of the things that make her happy. She writes 'plum-blossom' at the top of a piece of paper. Then she stares at the paper, unable to think of anything else. Eventually it begins to get dark. Neil Gaiman