Quotes about writ
writing people enough
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. Ernest Hemingway
writing our-words afternoon
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
writing stuff throwing
You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
writing thinking paris
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.
writing letters way
Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
writing want
Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
writing vices pleasure
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.
writing
The best writing is certainly when you are in love
writing epic
All bad writers are in love with the epic.
writing events assuming
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
writing worry ability
Worry destroys the ability to write.
writing political luck
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.
writing water movement
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
writing ifs
If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.
writing details stories
Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
writing bad-ass typewriters
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
writing small-details finished
If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
writing shining hammers
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.
writing trying way
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.
writing thinking dollars
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
writing night nails
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
writing epic guy
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
writing rocks literature
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
writing typewriters hands
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.
writing successful use
To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
writing great-writing
There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!
writing action emotion
Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
writing good-and-bad left
There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.
writing mean people
To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right. Eva Green
writing reservations made
Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels. Ethel Waters
writing islands black
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. Etty Hillesum
writing born
Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.
writing heart loss
Most people write off their longing for friends and family as so many losses in their lives, when they should count the fact that their heart is able to long so hard and to love so much as among their greatest blessings.