Quotes about writ
writing matter way
Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns Kurt Vonnegut
writing fiction each-day
The reason we write fiction is because it's so much easier to exist spending part of each day in an imaginary world.
writing style
You develop a style from writing a lot.
writing thinking our-society
It's only recently that I've come to understand that writers are not marginal to our society, that they, in fact, do all our thinking for us, that we are writing myths and our myths are believed, and that old myths are believed until someone writes a new one.
writing trade sane
This is what I find encouraging about the writing trades: ... They allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.
writing thinking people
Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that the only reason they find writing hard: they don't know or care about anything?
writing alive sacred
Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.
writing thinking wells
If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do.
writing stories done
Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done.
writing thinking feelings
I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer.
writing stories radio
Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
writing opportunity culture
We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.
writing interesting revelations
The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.
writing editors rejection
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
writing should-have giving
Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
writing ideas scratches
Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out.
writing character glasses
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
writing pneumonia making-love
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
writing college creative
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
writing conditions
I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write. Barbara Tuchman
writing sentences satisfying
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
writing evil water
People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass. William Shakespeare
writing eye men
No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth
writing night guy
Today is the anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. President Lincoln wrote it on his way to the site of the speech on the back of an envelope. One guy on the back of an envelope wrote the great Gettysburg Address - while every night it takes six guys to write this crap! David Letterman
writing two needs
Two things you need to know about taxes. They've extended the deadline to April 18, and when you write your check, just make it out to China.
writing air smell
Imagine yourself in the scene. See what there is to be seen. Listen to the sounds. Touch the world. Smell the air. Taste it. Use all of your senses. Then evoke those experiences for the reader. If you give the audience the flavor, they'll flesh out the moment in their own imaginations. David Gerrold
writing fighting men
All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different. David Gemmell
writing different want
I want to make films and write films, which will happen, I'm just taking a different route right now. I'm a bit of a chameleon with the whole entertainment industry so to speak. David Boreanaz
writing wanted
I really wanted to do, more than anything else, up until I was around 16, 17, was write musicals. David Bowie
writing europe stuff
In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff.
writing numbers needs
If you were to write your life motto, what would it say? Look out for number one? Or look out for the needs of others? David Jeremiah
writing stories process
When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me. David E. Kelley
writing way feels
The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.