Quotes about writ
writing way minutes
The way you define yourself as a writer is that you write every time you have a free minute. If you didn't behave that way you would never do anything. John Irving
writing novel
I'm a very old-fashioned novelist. I write 19th-century novels, where a lot of rules apply.
writing crafts architecture
The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.
writing giving cooking
If you are careful,' Garp wrote, 'if you use good ingredients, and you don't take any shortcuts, then you can usually cook something very good. Sometimes it is the only worthwhile product you can salvage from a day; what you make to eat. With writing, I find, you can have all the right ingredients, give plenty of time and care, and still get nothing. Also true of love. Cooking, therefore, can keep a person who tries hard sane.
writing history prejudice
The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation. John Hope Franklin
writing opportunity offering
I have a website because it's an interesting tool, very - and quite unexpectedly - useful for my work. It's become an archive and a fairly complete on-line portfolio, as well as offering an opportunity to write a little. John Howe
writing able bigs
I thought of God as being able to talk big and write *very* small. John Hersey
writing type satisfied
To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more, and over and over.
writing opportunity giving
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it.
writing singers performing
It's a whole package, singer/songwriter. I like writing but I like performing just as much. John Hiatt
writing creative missing
You know, I began my life as a creative person writing true things for magazines and telling some very honest, straightforward personal essaying for This American Life, but until someone forces you, with a deadline, to really observe your life - unless you're motivated to do it yourself - there's so many stories that you miss. John Hodgman
writing mind connections
When you're sitting down and you're blocked and you just start writing and something in your mind just clicks, you start seeing connections and so on, you really do feel like you're channeling something else.
writing long mind
For a long time, I would write without music, because I thought it was distracting until I appreciated that it actually unlocks a certain unconscious productivity vault in my mind.
writing superhero borges
My biggest superhero of writing is Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentine fabulist. He's an amazingly perceptive writer, but also willing to make a joke.
writing mean years
More people have more access to more readers for less money than ever before in history. It means a lot of dross; but it means a lot of very talented people can find and nurture a readership in ways that were not possible twenty years ago. From a creative perspective, that is all that writing is about.
writing hacking fiction
What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write. Neal Stephenson
writing oxford ideas
In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it. A few feet from that chalkboard is a copy of the full 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, to which I refer frequently as a source of ideas and word roots.
writing interesting stories
The story is everything, so it always begins with a story. Research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as I go along. My enjoyment level varies, but in general, I'm writing about topics I find interesting, so I can't gripe too much.
writing heart roots
Dig deep into your heart, where the answer spreads its roots in your being, and ask yourself solemnly, Must I write? Rainer Maria Rilke
writing long lines
with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, right at the end, one could perhaps write ten lines that are good.
writing use stranger
I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers.
writing long house
Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing.
writing night answers
Ask yourself in the most silent hour of your night: must I write [create]? Dig into yourself for a deep answer.
writing order law
The president is supposed to execute faithfully the laws that the legislature has written. So, the executive orders that Barack Obama president is writing are without precedent. Without precedent so with he's rewriting law. It's totally illegal.
writing ideas good-and-bad
My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that. Shaun Cassidy
writing years records
It's hard if you're just touring constantly. It's like, "What am I going to write about? I'm in the van, I'm playing another show..." I'm still writing about heartbreak that happened years ago. I don't see the point of writing and putting out another record until I can do something else. Sharon Van Etten
writing self intense
I guess I usually write when I'm in a really intense headspace, because it's my form of self-therapy.
writing views culture
In writing of Indian culture, I am highly conscious of my own subjectivity; arguably, there is more than one Indian culture, and certainly more than one view of Indian culture. Shashi Tharoor
writing years scripts
For years I was doing the excruciating weightlifting of writing scripts - but then I stayed thin and someone else got all the muscles. Shane Black
writing broken starting-out
Here's what I didn't know when I was starting out that I now know…I thought when you were starting out it was really hard to write because you hadn't broken in yet, you hadn't really hit your stride yet. What I found out paradoxically is that the next script you write doesn't get easier because you wrote one before…each one gets harder by a factor of 10.
writing math together
I feel like math and writing are the same thing. You're putting together a lot of complex things to satisfy different requirements. It's got to be aesthetically pleasing; it's got to have subtext; it's got to convey information. Shane Carruth
writing helping-others thinking
I think I'll always want to write and direct. I'm interested in producing and helping other people tell stories. But I'm still in love with writing and directing.
writing thinking interesting
When I started writing short stories, I thought I was writing a novel. I had like 60 or 70 pages. And what I realized was that I don't write inner monologue. I don't want to talk about what somebody is thinking or feeling. I wanted to try to show it in an interesting way. And so what I realized was that I was really writing a screenplay.