Quotes about writ
writing ideas creating
An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original. Umberto Eco
writing world fiction
I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
writing role-models roles
I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it).
writing mean artist
When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.
writing remember poet
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
writing glasses two
Given that there are seven billion people living on this earth, there is a consistent quantity of imbecile or idiot, okay. Previously, these people could express themselves only with their friends or at the bar after two or three glasses of something, and they said every silliness, and people laughed. Now they have the possibility to show up on the internet. And so, on the internet, along with the messages of a lot of interesting and important people - even the Pope is writing on Twitter - we have a great quantity of idiots.
writing media careers
A lot of people can figure out the social media aspect of it, or the merchandising aspect, or whatever and get enough momentum to start a career. To sustain it, you have to keep writing and you have to keep creating. Tyler Hilton
writing trying weight
I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about. Tyler Perry
writing paragraph
I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards. Truman Capote
writing obscure
Never be so brief as to become obscure. Tryon Edwards
writing paper understand-me
I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.
writing thinking weight
I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.
writing thinking miserable
I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.
writing editors talking
Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.
writing dark self
One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me.
writing clouds pieces
It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
writing littles bad-writing
It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.
writing rewriting good-writing
Good writing is rewriting.
writing creative mind
Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
writing insightful training
When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.
writing comeback typing
That's not writing, that's typing
writing tvs
I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
writing discovery self
There is really no practical help that one can offer; it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own convictions, or working with one's own work; your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.
writing typing
That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
writing keys ive-learned
And that's what I've learned too: writing is key. Trish Stratus
writing wife helping
My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. Rick Derringer
writing phones editors
I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic. Rick Bragg
writing numbers feelings
There's the underlying feeling that writing must be easy, because it's all about putting letters together. That's only true in the same way that programming is all about putting numbers together. Rhianna Pratchett
writing talking desire
I can pretty much spend an entire week talking about how the writing process works, to be honest! It can really vary from project to project and is often dependent on when you're brought on board, the genre, the platform and the narrative desires of the project.
writing people matter
The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take very seriously. Reza Aslan
writing mind shadow
Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts. Rex Stout
writing simple two
Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself. Raymond Chandler
writing long forever
The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.