Quotes about writ
writing practice people
I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because thats where I practice and write and listen and study. Esperanza Spalding
writing prose-and-poetry needs
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation. Ernst Haas
writing helping born
Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence. Ernest Hemingway
writing doe world
A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.
writing way best-way
The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
writing challenges done
Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.
writing two long
The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.
writing years trying
Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.
writing conversation good-conversation
Good writing is good conversation, only more so.
writing pay typos
Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.
writing trying world
I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)
writing want
Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.
writing men done
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
writing perspective giving
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective
writing past simple
How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
writing mean men
To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.
writing stories
Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.
writing law addresses
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.
writing thinking complicated
it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.
writing thinking should
I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you
writing training dinner
My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.
writing trying underwater
I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.
writing sorrow progress
There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.
writing thinking blue
But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
writing each-day comfort
Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.
writing live-it-up
Live it up so you can write it down.
writing thinking modesty
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
writing fate care
All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.
writing simple thinking
You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.
writing symbols clumsy
Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.
writing stories decided
I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
writing cities paris
To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.
writing goes-on moveable-feast
I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.