Quotes about writ
writing air voice
The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life. Joseph Joubert
writing publish repeats
Write. Publish. Repeat. Kristine Kathryn Rusch
writing unique years
Rod Clark has one of the most unique voices I have ever encountered. I still quote some of his political insights years later. To have him write political science fiction is both appropriate and intriguing.
writing unique thinking
As one of my creative writing professors once said, there are only seven plots. What makes those plots different is how you handle them, your voice, your style, and your way of thinking. That’s all. People can mimic your style, but they can never achieve your unique point of view.
writing littles ocd
I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing. Kristin Hannah
writing thinking play
Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elements of reader expectation that play into various genres, and those are important, but it also becomes about packaging, placement, audience....In the end, I'm not a fan of labels. I think the best fiction blurs the boundaries between genres, stretches and breaks them.
writing authenticity knows
I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from. K'naan
writing pissed-off sometimes
Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it. King Krule
writing pleasure
I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.
writing humanity historical
To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
writing thinking brain
But what I realized when I was looking back at them was that no matter how different they are, they're still coming from me, and they're still coming from my brain and my set of obsessions. I think that no matter how different I tried to make them, there were just these certain questions that I just kept circling back to as I was writing. I think they were the ones I was really swept up in in that decade. Molly Antopol
writing thinking holocaust
It really made me nervous to write about it [Holocaust] and to approach it, because I was nervous about how to do it respectfully, and I was also thinking about how I could add something new to something that had already been so explored.
writing empathy style
Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit, style and empathy, and The Mathematician's Shiva is a big-hearted, rollickingly funny novel that's impossible to put down. A tremendous debut.
writing poetry criticism
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry Moliere
writing fine
That must be fine, for I don't understand a word.
writing men honorable-man
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
writing might chance
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.
writing silence needs
I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words. Mohsin Hamid
writing novelists researchers
I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.
writing novel invitations
For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.
writing
Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.
writing novel solitary
Novel writing is solitary work.
writing childhood gone
We are all refugees from our childhoods. And so we turn, among other things, to stories. To write a story, to read a story, is to be a refugee from the state of refugees. Writers and readers seek a solution to the problem that time passes, that those who have gone are gone and those who will go, which is to say every one of us, will go. For there was a moment when anything was possible. And there will be a moment when nothing is possible. But in between we can create.
writing poetic-license poetic
He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license. Milton Berle
writing government important
If, for example, existing government intervention is minor, we shall attach a smaller weight to the negative effect of additional government intervention. This is an important reason why many earlier liberals, like Henry Simons, writing at a time when government was small by today's standards, were willing to have government undertake activities that today's liberals would not accept now that government has become so overgrown. Milton Friedman
writing people honest
What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope. Mike Birbiglia
writing trying feedback
My writing process is very feedback-based. When I do stand-up, I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting, and then rewrite, rewrite and rewrite.
writing reason-why reason
I have never sought the reason why I write. Nathalie Sarraute
writing opportunity very-good
One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.
writing catharsis kind
The act of writing is a kind of catharsis, a liberation, but I never really concerned myself with that. I write because it interests me.
writing people poet
One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
writing feminist locked
Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.
writing thinking insecurity
A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not. Nate Ruess