Quotes about writ
writing people abuse
It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them. Ernest Hemingway
writing doe mystery
There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
writing practice giving
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.
writing feel-better feels
Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.
writing rewriting kind
The only kind of writing is rewriting.
writing lines stories
Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
writing hard-times time-keeping
The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.
writing wish done
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
writing worry moveable-feast
Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.
writing men wonder
I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?
writing speak should
A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
writing water waiting
A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.
writing night knowing
At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.
writing wells
Write as well as you can and finish what you start.
writing men degrees
Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.
writing preparation training
Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.
writing owl may
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.
writing age difficulty
Everyone my age had written a novel and I was still having difficulty writing a paragraph.
writing simple thinking
My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing.
writing thinking fool
The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
writing people
You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.
writing talking cracks
Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.
writing next-day trying
You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.
writing ill-health worry
Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.
writing
The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
writing trying wonderful
Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.
writing boxing
My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
writing important fiction
You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.
writing knowing trying
I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced...
writing water feelings
If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.
writing
There is no rule on how to write.
writing good-luck long
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
writing sad-and-happy stories
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.