Quotes about writ
writing plain-language adjectives
When you catch an adjective, kill it. Mark Twain
writing doubt adjectives
As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out.
writing editors criticism
The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.
writing hands looks
Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.
writing confusing easy
Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.
writing light ideas
To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.
writing editors crafts
Substitute "damn" every time you're inclined to write "very"; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be.
writing bird world
The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang. Leonardo da Vinci
writing talent good-writing
Good writing comes from good talent.
writing greatness men
Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it. Oscar Wilde
writing good-intentions intention
Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical.
writing artist doe
They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist.
writing illustration poetry
Literary poetry in a painter is something special, and is neither illustration nor the translation of writing by form. Paul Gauguin
writing moon way
I'd like to write the way I do my paintings, that is, as fantasy takes me, as the moon dictates.
writing needs reform
We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process. Patrick McHenry
writing thinking important
You do not write your life with words...You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do. Patrick Ness
writing emotional issues
Now the truth is, writing is a great way to deal with a lot of difficult emotional issues. It can be very therapeutic, but that's best done in your journal, or on your blog if you're an exhibitionist. Trying to put a bunch of *specific* stuff from your personal life into your story usually just isn't appropriate unless you're writing a memoir or a personal essay or something of the sort. Patrick Rothfuss
writing looks language
For me, language is something that I've always loved. When I read, that's what I look for. When I write, that's what I strive for.
writing people everyday
I have a blog where I keep in touch with my fans. I write about things that are important to me. Sometimes on there I'll just tell a little story about the things that happen in my everyday life. People seem to enjoy them well enough.
writing heart character
It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate from your own experiences and make reasonable assumptions about how your characters would feel and act.
writing roots understanding
Language is inexorably tied to power and understanding. And power and understanding are the roots of magic. Just the act of writing something down is a magical act.
writing character people
You can't write good characters if you can't imagine what it's like being in another person's skin. And if you can imagine that, you naturally want other people's lives to be better. You want to make that happen.
writing stories flavor
Nobody cooks using just one ingredient. Why would you write using just one flavor of story?
writing plot rough-drafts
But it isn’t a rough draft either. The one I turned in several months ago was rough. There were some bad plot holes, some logical inconsistencies, pacing problems, and not nearly enough lesbian unicorns.
writing law needs
You need to realize that most writing rules aren't laws, they're rules of thumb.
writing thinking stories
I think the tendency to over-explain and over describe is one of the most common failings in fantasy. It's an unfortunate piece of Tolkien's legacy. Don't get me wrong, Tolkien was a great worldbuilder, but he got a little caught up describing his world at times, at the expense of the overall story.
writing years shining
It's my belief that you should never show your work to anyone in the publishing world until it shines like a diamond. Rough drafts don't shine, as a rule. Mine certainly didn't. That's why I was rejected for years and years.
writing differences worry
I'm just very careful with my words when I write. Obsessively careful. I'm the sort of person who worries about the difference between "slim" and "slender.
writing nervous
I was nervous about writing Slow Regard.
writing speed results
I'm not a speed writer. I write slowly and revise obsessively. The end result tends to be good. That's where my strength is.
writing novel
Writing a good query letter has very little to do with writing a good novel. But if you can't write the one, it makes it really hard to get the other published.
writing novel needed
If I could sum it up in 50 words, I wouldn't have needed to write a whole novel about it.
writing years drawing
I did the drawing and writing - for five years. I made a lot of short films the whole while and I made a promise to myself in front of the mirror that I would stop drawing when I signed my first contract for a feature film. Patrice Leconte