Quotes about writ
writing advice like-yourself
Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know. Raymond Chandler
writing personality perception
The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.
writing order
The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.
writing perception criticism
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
writing silence mind
[As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.
writing people style
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.
writing advice progress
I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.
writing eye loss
Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no longer alone, they have an investment in critical praise, and they think they must protect it. This leads to a diffusion of effort. The writer watches himself as he works. He grows more subtle and he pays for it by loss of organic dash.
writing cutting thinking
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
writing gun men
When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
writing style investment
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
writing passion technique
Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
writing years want
The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
writing men paper
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
writing stories storytelling
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
writing mind tools
I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift. Regina Spektor
writing interesting stories
Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and feel it, no less than somebody's who's writing from their direct 'I' or 'me.' I'm just so much more interesting in stories than confessions.
writing trying lasts
When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.
writing technology years
I've been gratified to see over the twenty or so years of my writing life the West become less of a colony of the East; maybe new technologies and too much travel undermine the idea of provinciality. Rebecca Solnit
writing law-of-attraction space
Write down the things you like most about them (don't expect change from them). Law of attraction will not put you in the same space together if you frequencies don't match. Rhonda Byrne
writing thinking law-of-attraction
Write your script. When you see things you don't want, don't think about them, write about them, talk about them, push against them, or join groups that focus on the don't wants... remove your attention from don't wants.. and place them on do wants.
writing next needs
The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage. Rick Wakeman
writing
I'm always writing or playing because that is my life.
writing school
I learned to read and write and socialize in school, and that's pretty much it. Rick Springfield
writing thinking perspective
I always try and find new things to think about and address. That really opens you up as a writer. I can write a lot of what I feel and it helps put it into clearer perspective.
writing thinking two
I think anytime you're writing to the middle grades, you're writing to young readers who are trapped in a number of ways between two worlds: between childhood and adulthood, between their friends and their parents. Rick Riordan
writing school kids
Back when I taught middle school and wrote adult mysteries, my students often asked me why I wasn't writing for kids. I never had a good answer for them. It took me a long time to realize they were right.
writing careers ideas
I've always liked the idea that writing is a form of travel. And I started my writing career as a mystery novelist for adults.
writing eyebrows together
Doubtful, but it did work... "Annabeth?" Percy said again. "You're planning something. You've got that I'm-planning-something look." "I don't have an I'm-planning-something look." "Yeah, you totally do. Your eyebrows knit and your lips press together and ---" "Do you have a pen?" she asked him. "You're kidding, right?" He brought out Riptide. "Yes, but can you actually write with it?" "I--I don't know," he admitted. "Never tried.
writing loss guy
Well, I write a lot of poetry - that's where it usually all starts. I definitely want to show you guys sides of me - love, loss, heartbreak - all of that good stuff! Tristan Wilds
writing want principles
I write a manifesto and I want nothing, yet I say certain things, and in principle I am against manifestoes, as I am also against principles. Tristan Tzara
writing procrastination trying
I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out. Paolo Bacigalupi
writing blow dust
We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.