Quotes about writ
writing pleasure my-friends
At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it. Eudora Welty
writing thinking direct
I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.
writing way stories
Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.
writing looks fiction
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
writing novel knows
What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
writing stories next
Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
writing stories next
Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.
writing experience stories
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
writing clouds vagueness
No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.
writing stories
Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.
writing knows
Write about what you don't know about what you know.
writing doe stories
To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
writing essence raw-materials
The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again.
writing thinking challenges
The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough.
writing honestly can-do
To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.
writing men literary-genre
A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great - and few have overcome them successfully - they are compounded in the case of scientists, of whom many lead monotonous and uneventful lives and who, besides, often do not know how to write . . . Erwin Chargaff
writing years two
Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and you never see anybody. It's a very different sort of metabolic. Esa-Pekka Salonen
writing trying robots
I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably. Jhonen Vasquez
writing thinking stories
I approach writing stories as a recorder. I think of my role as some kind of reporting device - recording and projecting. Jhumpa Lahiri
writing thinking ideas
When I sit down to write, I don't think about writing about an idea or a given message. I just try to write a story which is hard enough.
writing numbers giving
I would not send a first story anywhere. I would give myself time to write a number of stories.
writing assertive willfulness
Writing is one of the most assertive things a person can do.
writing mean reality
It was not in my nature to be an assertive person. I was used to looking to others for guidance, for influence, sometimes for the most basic cues of life. And yet writing stories is one of the most assertive things a person can do. Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconceive, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most reluctant and doubtful of writers, this willfulness must emerge. Being a writer means taking the leap from listening to saying, “Listen to me.
writing dark winter
I write music better in the winter, I prefer making music when it's dark. Grimes
writing would-be autobiography
To write an autobiography of Groucho Marx would be as asinine as to read an autobiography of Groucho Marx. Groucho Marx
writing feelings way
If I couldn't get published tomorrow I'd still be writing. It's something to do with feeling so overwhelmed by this experience of life that you have to tell someone about it, and in a way that reorders the experience to make it manageable. Graham Joyce
writing depends superficiality
So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days. Graham Greene
writing doe precaution
A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.
writing doors taverns
Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after he had finished the writing of Macbeth?
writing play people
I get fed up with all this nonsense of ringing people up and lighting cigarettes and answering the doorbell that passes for action in so many modern plays.
writing novelists depth
So much of a novelist's writing, as I have said, takes place in the unconscious: in those depths the last word is written before the first word appears on the paper. We remember details of our story, we do not invent them.
writing hands annoyed
Melodrama is one of my working tools and it enables me to obtain effects that would be unobtainable otherwise; on the other hand I am not deliberately melodramatic; don't get too annoyed if I say that I write in the way that I do because I am what I am.
writing character differences
I write about situations that are common, universal might be more correct, in which my characters are involved and from which only faith can redeem them, though often the actual manner of the redemption is not immediately clear. They sin, but there is no limit to God's mercy and because this is important, there is a difference between not confessing in fact, and the complacent and the pious may not realize it.