Quotes about writ
writing love-is trying
Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating. John Green
writing way different
Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
writing bored attention
Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.
writing reality trying
[My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable...My interest is in trying to reflect the reality of experience-how we feel when we talk to each other, how we feel when we're engaging with questions that interest us.
writing imagining-things
We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.
writing doe muggles
If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they're total muggles.
writing mind comedian
In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing. Patton Oswalt
writing
I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act.
writing thinking rocks
I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of myself as a performer. It's always been writing for me. I evolved with my band in rock 'n' roll through poetry, not through music. Patti Smith
writing thinking hair
If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.
writing rocks trying
I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.
writing aspect small-parts
I didn't write about aspects of my public life because that's a small part of my life.
writing mind pieces
After writing all day I go for a walk and see a piece of architecture i want to photograph and i have to take a picture and later a poem comes in my mind.
writing drawing looks
Somehow I started introducing writing into my drawings, and after a time, the language took over and I started getting very involved with the handwriting and then the look of the handwriting.
writing secret desire
When I was young, I knew William Burroughs really well. And William's secret desire, which he never quite did, was to write a straightforward detective novel.
writing quiet closets
Writing is not some quiet, closet act.
writing artist drawing
I never felt oppressed because of my gender. When I'm writing a poem or drawing, I'm not a female; I'm an artist.
writing pursuit awake
Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply.
writing
A writer is someone who writes! Pat Schneider
writing bad-writing discrimination
Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious. P. D. James
writing scientist there-comes-a-time
There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
writing order appreciate
read widely, not in order to copy someone else's style, but to learn to appreciate and recognize good writing and to see how the best writers have achieved their result. Poor writing is, unfortunately, infectious and should be avoided.
writing nurse publishers
Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.
writing thinking needs
Write what you need to write, not what is currently popular or what you think will sell.
writing
I write because I like to make things and the only things I am good at making things with are words, P. J. O'Rourke
writing thinking agency
The SEC got more than 100 rules to write under Dodd-Frank, the lion's share of all the agencies. And we've moved, I think, with a tremendous sense of urgency. But it takes a long time to write rules and get them approved by a five-member commission. Mary Schapiro
writing self giving
Symbols give us our identity, our self image, our way of explaining ourselves to ourselves and to others. Symbols in turn determine the kinds of stories we tell, and the stories we tell determine the kind of history we make and remake. Mary Robinson
writing survivor boat
In brief, we who write are all in the same boat, as if we are survivors of torpedoes, and we hope to reach the shores of thought with strength for more activity. Mary Ritter Beard
writing australia doe
I very much was inspired by Bill Bryson. He does cover science, but more often, it's a mixture of science and travel, and whatever he happens to be writing about - Shakespeare, Australia, the United Kingdom, or when he covers science in 'A Short History Of Nearly Everything' - he has an incredible ability to be both entertaining and enlightening. Mary Roach
writing challenges easy
The writing is always the easy part, provided I can get the good material. It's the getting of the good material that's a challenge.
writing careers may
The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab. Mary Roberts Rinehart
writing certain harder
Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.
writing perfect people
it is axiomatic with most writing people that there are no such things as perfect conditions for work.