Quotes about writ
writing people trying
I look at people like Picasso and Da Vinci and Escher and Miles Davis, and they'll write or paint that one definitive masterpiece of maybe 50 that they have that's really trying to go outside the box, trying to do something that's tough. And then when you accomplish it, you look back and go, 'Yeeaaaah - masterpiece.' Lupe Fiasco
writing long rejection
I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long. Louise Brown
writing battle fiction
Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story. John Cheever
writing stories kind
Sometimes the easiest-seeming stories to a reader are the hardest kind to write.
writing blake make-sense
I write to make sense of my life." -John Cheever, quoted in _Cheever - A Life_ (2009) by Blake Bailey
writing kissing done
Without a reader, I cannot write. It's like a kiss: they cannot be done alone.
writing nuclear roles
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
writing needs make-sense
The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.
writing ego promise
Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.
writing kissing reader
I can't write without a reader. It's precisely like a kiss - you can't do it alone.
writing years stressed
As you know, I have over the years written critically about the U.N. I have consistently stressed in my writings that American leadership is critical to the success of the U.N., an effective U.N., one that is true to the original intent of its charter's framers. John Bolton
writing appreciate television
You know, as somebody who writes op-eds and appears on the television, I appreciate as well as anybody that there is a limit to what that accomplishes.
writing ideas want
Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer. John Amos
writers-and-writing
You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.
writing asking serious
To ask an author who hopes to be a serious writer if his work is autobiographical is like asking a spider where he buys his thread. The spider gets his thread right out of his own guts, and that is where the author gets his writing. Robertson Davies
written
I have written stories, essays, even whole books on trains, scribble-scribble. Paul Theroux
written
I always worry I've probably written one too many Bernie Gunther books and that I should probably give him his gold watch. Philip Kerr
written
You can't really compare any TV show to a show written by Aaron Sorkin. Constance Zimmer
written
It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script. Mark Johnson
writing artist being-an-artist
The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love. Taylor Swift
writing together happened
Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.
writing water oath
I write a woman's oaths in water. Sophocles
writing income firsts
I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed. Steve Toltz
writing world fantasy
The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down. Stephen Malkmus
writing stuff desperate
We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.
writing firsts wells
To write well it is first necessary to have something to say. Stephen Leacock
writing paper down-and
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.
writing ideas simplicity
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
writing bathroom ifs
When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off. Stephen King
writing telepathy
What is writing? Writing is telepathy.
writing stories
When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.
writing details description
For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.
writing character thinking
I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so interested in it that I want to talk too much about the characters and that slows the story down. So I say, "Hey, people want to find out what's going to happen next, they don't want to listen to you spout off about this or that person." But I think even the bad guy deserves to tell his side of the story.