Quotes about writ
writing effort incapacity
The old incapacity. Interrupted my writing for barely ten days and already cast out. Once again prodigious efforts stand before me. You have to dive down, as it were, and sink more rapidly than that which sinks in advance of you. Franz Kafka
writing insanity monsters
A non-writing writer is a monster courting insanity.
writing lawyer persons
A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief."
writing men solitude
I need solitude for my writing; not 'like a hermit' - that wouldn't be enough - but like a dead man.
writing thinking darkness
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.
writing technique difficult
To write history is so difficult that most historians are forced to make concessions to the technique of legende. Erich Auerbach
writing ideas office
In our office, we have a whiteboard with all of our ideas and things we want to write on it - great ideas we have that we haven't had the time to get around to yet. Erich Hoeber
writing thinking should
I am persecuted because of my writings, I think, therefore, that I should write some more. Eric Williams
writing thinking fiction
I think poetry is the best thing I do. It's certainly the purest. I seem to switch gears without too much trouble. Non-fiction is in many ways the easiest to write. Erica Jong
writing knowing beginners
You are always naked when you start writing; you are always as if you had never written anything before; you are always a beginner. Shakespeare wrote without knowing he would become Shakespeare
writing
It takes a spasm of love to write a poem.
writing people lasts
the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.
writing oxygen giving
We write poems / as leaves give oxygen - / so we can breathe.
writing thinking parting
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write.
writing each-day fragmented
Each day that I don't write I get more fragmented.
writing thinking expression
Often I find that poems predict what I'm going to do later in my own writing, and often I find that poems predict my life. So I think poetry is the most intense expression of feeling that we have.
writing past thinking
As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
writing diaries boring
I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.
writing glowing dust
I am not quite sure how writing changes things, but I know that it does. It is indirect-like the trails of earthworms aerating the earth. It is not always deliberate-like the tails of glowing dust dragged by comets.
writing firsts should
You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
writing thinking way
When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. I think it's a wonderful way to spend one's life.
writing voice giving
You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
writing thinking who-i-am
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
writing silence despair
When I'm sitting at the desk not being able to write line one, it's silence and despair! It's not so easy to put the pen to the legal pad or type the first sentence on the computer screen.
writing class feelings
There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.
writing thinking political
The problem with feminism in the second wave was that we fought so much among ourselves, and I think we did so much damage to the movement... and I think the next wave, the third wave, is women mentoring younger women and women helping younger women to enter the political process and the writing world.
writing fiction males
It is a sad paradox that when male authors impersonate women ... they are said to be dealing with 'cosmic, major concerns' - but when we impersonate ourselves we are said to be writing 'women's fiction' or 'women's poetry.
writing cynical truth-is
Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.
writing ifs our-lives
we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.
writing mind levels
Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.
writing years way
I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged...I had poems which were re-written so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.
writing listening important
If you imagine the world listening, you'll never write a line. That's why privacy is so important. You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone.
writing soil common
But we should ask the question: Why should a writer be more than a writer? Why should a writer be a guru? Why are we supposed to be psychiatrists? Isn't it enough to write and tell the truth? It's not like telling the truth is common. Writers are the earthworms of society. We aerate the soil. That's enough.