Quotes about writ
writing one-day together
I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together. Juliette Binoche
writing
I like writing about friends. Julie Garwood
writing faces comfort
Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face. Joy Williams
writing wings reader
The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness — those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.
writing
One writes to find words' meanings.
writing process writing-process
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.
writing grace doe
Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.
writing care these-days
It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.
writing dark light
A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.
writing play want
It seemed like the right time. You reach a point when you say to yourself, ‘Do I want to keep doing this?’ There are other things on my plate I want to do — I’ve been writing a play, I’ve been neglecting my standup. Joy Behar
writing men cricket
I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man. Joseph O'Neill
writing want madness
If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.
writing parasites critics
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write. Joseph Priestley
writing self imagination
For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable. Joyce Carol Oates
writing light people
When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation. Justin Cronin
writing iowa fiction
I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.
writing careers persons
Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.
writing passion long
Music is my passion so I feel like I'll be doing this for a long time and God forbid if anything happens I'll still write music. So, I could write music for other people. I see myself making music for a very long time. Justin Bieber
writing people negative
When people see a negative thing about me on a magazine, they're gonna buy it. Every time some site writes something bad, all my followers go on there, and it brings them more traffic.
writing uncomfortable
Change is uncomfortable. Write that down.
writing choices stories
You want the greatest trick for writing a novel? Here it is: imagine urgently whispering your story into one person's ear - and only one. This one visualization will clarify every word choice you make. Julianna Baggott
writing want brutal
I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.
writing dark trying
I don't know when I'm writing dark. I don't know when I'm writing funny or even heartbreaking. I'm always just trying to write it true.
writing cutting fighting
Writing across genres has made me more prolific. When one is fighting me or simply not cutting it, I turn to another.
writing plot want
I was born in the era of the novel. I've written many, as well as collections of poetry, and essays for mouthing off. I've written to inches, word-counts, page-counts, even the sonnet and the screenplay (which I call a plot poem). I write narrative. That's it. I just want to tell it.
writing bored childhood
I didn't start writing so that I could more deeply know myself. I was bored of myself, my life, my childhood, my hometown. I started writing as a way to know others, to get away from myself.
writing genre-is feelings
One of the reasons I write in different genres is that I get to have the feeling - even fleetingly - that I'm not just writing like Baggott again. I can escape myself.
writing passion agonizing
Writing is my obsession, my passion. My relationship with it is one of the most complex and agonizing and richly vexing that I have in my life.
writing thinking trying
Try to think of writing as a gift - more complexly put: it is the curse and the cure.
writing intricacy formal
The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.
writing boundaries genre
I write across genres so I see them, more often, as complementary instead of separated by boundaries.
writing men want
If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.
writing careers people
I'm really loving acting. I want this as a career. I'll still write music and collaborate with people, but I'm focused on the acting path. Julianne Hough