Quotes about writ
writing stories forget
If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public. O. Henry
writing giving secret
I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
writing
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
writing fiction natural
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest. Octavia Butler
writing novel wanted
Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.
writing trying fancy
I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.
writing character people
The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.
writing worry people
Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.
writing stories i-can
...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.
writing rejection painful
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.
writing thinking eight
It's interesting how many science fiction writers get going when they are very young. I was on a program with Greg Bear and he mentioned that he had gotten started writing when he was eight. And I began writing when I was 10. I think we're influenced by the stuff, we find it and we love it and we're influenced by it....I know I collected my first rejection slip when I was 13, and I went on collecting them for a long time after that.
writing stories
Every story I create, creates me. I write to create myself.
writing long comeback
No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
writing alive theory
I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.
writing firsts fantasy
Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.
writing persistence stories
If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.
writing toilets littles
And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
writing frustration profession
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.
writing
I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing,
writing persistence thinking
You don't start out writing good stuff. You start out writing crap and thinking it's good stuff, and then gradually you get better at it. That's why I say one of the most valuable traits is persistence.
writing stories wanted
I just knew there were stories I wanted to tell.
writing band population
My current project is my band, Population 1. We are writing, rehearsing and playing in Los Angeles. Nuno Bettencourt
writing wind feet
I am gonna write poems til i die and when i have gotten outta this body i am gonna hang round in the wind and knock over everybody who got their feet on the ground. Ntozake Shange
writing iceland play
I do like to write but I also like to get and out and play. I am losing track of all the Cooper versions that I do - I have one for Iceland, different one over here. Michael Bruce
writing self doubt
It's so easy to get caught up in your own self-doubt when you're writing. It can be so easy to tell yourself, "Who am I kidding?" Michael Cera
writing talking guy
You can write shorthand and still look at the guy you're talking to. Michael Caine
writing special looks
What it is is that comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write. Anyone can write; and then you leave it to special effects to make it look good. But comedy, you've got to do some writing.
writing actors comedy
Comedy is underrepresented in every actor's life, because it's so bloody difficult to write.
writing decision massachusetts
As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports. Merton Miller
writing years effort
When you have been writing for a lot of years, you have to make an effort not to start repeating yourself. It occurred to me that I tended to tread certain ground automatically, because it was comfortable, but that there were areas I avoided automatically because they made me nervous. Merrill Markoe
writing doors people
We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope. Merle Haggard
writing thinking opposites
Sasuke is always in the corner of my mind. Naruto and Sasuke progress as a pair. So when I write about Naruto, I always have to think about Sasuke. They are on opposite sides of the spectrum, like yin and yang. Masashi Kishimoto
writing ifs
Shaw writes as if it were always midday. Mason Cooley