Quotes about writ
writing important austen
It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding. Karen Joy Fowler
writing true-life type
I write about true-life type things. Karen Kingsbury
writing stories trials
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
writing thinking stories
And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way. Karen Russell
writing trying favorites-things
I really try to write every day. It's hard, but it's my favorite thing to do, so it's usually not too, too hard.
writing thinking secret
It's funny to think about the uncanny reflexively, as an author who is perhaps gradually becoming aware of my own hidden secrets. Accessing that shadowy territory really requires the physical act of writing.
writing self perfection
Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.
writing people ifs
If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say. Justin Sane
writing stuff comedic
I feel more comfortable writing firmly comedic or slightly comedic stuff. Justin Theroux
writing thinking would-be
As for the multiple editions, in the case of a truly great writer - Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Proust, someone with a canon - there is often a "variorum" edition of the work that presents its variants. I think publishing most other writing that way would be impossible, economically, for publishers, and very ill-advised for authors. Judith Thurman
writing one-day stories
I always had stories inside my head and one day I just decided to start writing them down. I didn't actually decide. Judy Blume
writing changed changing-my-life
When you ask, Did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life.
writing listening teach
Nothing teaches you as much about writing dialogue as listening to it.
writing care
The only thing that works with writing is that you care so passionately about it yourself, that you make someone else care passionately about it.
writing fiction
I like to read fiction best and I like to write fiction, too.
writing years people
My size is an asset to me. People write roles for me. If I was just another blond-haired, brown-eyed, 18-year-old actor, I'd be left unrecognized. People remember me. Josh Ryan Evans
writing reality interesting
And then, once you've written, you meet producers and directors and actors. You get to meet interesting, talented, creative, artistic people, and it also staves off a bit of creative stagnation when you can't act, which is the reality of the industry. So often, you can't act because there are just too many cars and not enough car parks. But, I love writing and I'll never stop doing that. Josh Lawson
writing thinking people
I hope I never have to stop acting. I love it. But, I think the coolest thing about acting is working with these amazing people all the time, and writing represented a new way to meet those people and to tell stories, at the same time, which I've always wanted to do, and to tell jokes. I love comedy, so writing was a way of getting these jokes that I had down on the page.
writing people stories
I never started writing because I wanted to write myself stuff. It was really more that I had these stories to tell, and I wanted to work with people that I respected and liked.
writing hip-hop culture
I know about hip-hop culture, whether it's graffiti writing or DJ-ing or being an MC. Josh Peck
writing levels sometimes
I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level. Josh Radnor
writing feelings different
If I'm feeling something, I have a lot of different ways to express it, you know? I can write an article about it. I can write a screenplay about it. I can act in someone's thing.
writing moments theme
What I write is very personal, but not autobiographical. It's more 'thematically personal' - what's up in my life in terms of themes at the moment.
writing culture environment
I really like to travel when I write. Something about seeing new things and being in new cultures and environments provokes new thoughts in your head.
writing trying tasks
My task, which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel--it is, before all, to make you see. Joseph Conrad
writing men fellow-man
A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.
writing reality speech
Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.
writing wannabes composer
I write arrangements. Im sort of a wannabe composer. Joshua Bell
writing thinking ideas
I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership. Joshua Ferris
writing helping language
After all, nothing helps to write lyrics more than to mess around with the language. Joshua Homme
writing ideas people
I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.
writing thinking way-forward
Woodworking requires a completely different kind of thinking and problem-solving ability than writing. With writing, you take a set of facts and ideas, and you reason your way forward to a story that pulls them together. With woodworking, you start with an end product in mind, and reason your way backward to the raw wood. Joshua Foer
writing thinking essence
It is forgetting, not remembering, that is the essence of what makes us human. To make sense of the world, we must filter it. "To think," Borges writes, "is to forget.