Quotes about writ
writing doctors voice
I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have it. They're tone-deaf, even though they're very fluent. It's an ability, like anything else, being a doctor or a veterinarian, or a musician. Paula Fox
writing years class
I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.
writing people trying
I'm very, very open to experimenting with different people and trying to find different methods of writing and making music. Paul Weller
writing thinking people
People say you make your best work when in despair, but I think happiness is a good place to write from
writing thinking goal
I once had a young musician come to me and say that he wanted to be a professional musician. I asked him to write his list. When he came back to me, the three things in his life he most wanted were: to be paid for his music; to travel around the world; to meet new people. We came to the decision, after thinking really creatively, that if he got a job on a cruise ship, he would fulfill those goals. Phil Keoghan
writing thoughtful winning
People who consistently win have a clear and thoughtful strategy. They know what they need to do and when they need to do it. They write it down so they stay on course, and avoid any alternative that does not get them closer to the finish line. Phil McGraw
writing stories world
The world before us is a postcard, and I imagine the story we are writing on it. Mary E. Pearson
writing phones up-early
I get up early and open my emails, write cheques, and answer the phone; whatever needs to be done. Martin Parr
writing secret surprise
I don't know what the secret is when I am writing it - it really is a surprise to me. Lee Child
writing three email
I have three desks. One empty for paperwork, one for the internet and email, and one for the writing computer.
writing ideas people
I always wanted to be in the world of entertainment. I just love the idea of an audience being happy with what I am doing. Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.
writing office six-months
I write in the afternoon, from about 12 until 6 or 7. I use an upstairs room as my office. Once I get going I keep at it, and it usually takes about six months from the first blank screen until 'The End.
writing wish fulfillment
All of us write wish fulfillment.
writing answers way
The way to write a thriller is to ask a question at the beginning, and answer it at the end.
written
Don't get it right - get it WRITTEN!
writing people shy
Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it.
writing arizona journalism
I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide. Laurie Notaro
writing blood talking
When you see the carrot at the end of the stick, what do you do to get it? These kinds of things that come up, that come up in the story of Capote writing "In Cold Blood," and when you see the movie, you'll see what I'm talking about. Philip Seymour Hoffman
writing mind fiction
What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows into an oak. Write fiction and you relinquish reason. You start with an acorn and you end up with a mackerel. Philip Roth
writing frustration used
I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.
writing years president
Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating a piece of crude, contemptible, adolescent, anti-American wickedness, when, in fact, he would have succeeded, as prophetic sentry, where Orwell failed.
writing desire fiction
I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.
writing wrecks may
Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.
writing alive pages
I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
writing judging
Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.
writing reality america
You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.
writing sisterhood skulls
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
writing heart mind
Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can. Philip James Bailey
writing thinking lazy
I think e-mail is kind of a cheap way to communicate. It's a lazy way of writing a letter, you know. Peyton Manning
writing should-have beginning-middle-and-end
Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Peter De Vries
writing lasts discouraged
I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.
writing drunk discipline
Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.
writing important happens
Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen. Peter Drucker