Quotes about writ
writing discovery process
Writing is an incessant process of discovery. Robert Hass
writing half hours
Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.
writing poetry hell
It's hell writing and it's hell not writing. The only tolerable state is having just written.
writing stories someday
I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notices. Rick Reilly
writing happy-endings
The sad part about happy endings is there's nothing to write about. Tammy Wynette
writing men lifetime
I spent 15 minutes writing Stand By Your Man, and a lifetime defending it.
writing somewhere-else things-i-love
Im writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and Im very greedy, and I really enjoy it! Tanith Lee
writing feelings wish
I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
writing opinion comeback
If they had said my writing wasn't good enough, fair enough, that's an opinion. But to say it's too complex is to insult the intelligence of the so-called young.
writing scary stories
Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and nonfiction. And even there, who can be sure?
writing people complexes
I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
writing way needs
I'm still very much in the apprentice stage of writing. I read somewhere that you need to write a million words before you know what you're doing - so I'm headed that way, but I'm nowhere near there. Tana French
writing lucky feels
I love writing. I feel ridiculously lucky that this is what I get to do all day.
writing weekend important
Most important of all, there is no right or wrong way to write - there's only what works for you. I was taught to write every day, but I know a writer (a bestseller at that!) who only writes on weekends. Tamora Pierce
writing thinking stories
I've written short stories in first person, but you have so much more control writing in third person. Third person, you know what everybody's thinking. First person is very limiting, and I could never sustain a first person novel before.
writing character animal
After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
writing pages matter
When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen. Taiye Selasi
writing heart mind
I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
writing play oxford
I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.
writing ideas people
The big ideas always come in flashes. I don't really craft stories that much. I genuinely don't know where these people come from, and I've often wondered if writing is just a socially acceptable form of madness.
writing parent different
I belong to a specific category of writers, those who speak and write in a language different from that of their parents. Tahar Ben Jelloun
writing world found
I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not a shopkeeper. A writer creates an imaginary world that he transmits to others.
writing views
I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.
writing air mtv
If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air. Tabitha Soren
writing space paddling
Writing is always a restorative process. It's like paddling a kayak. When you're writing, you can't do anything else. You're in the space you're in. So, in that way, it's enormously centering and restorative. Tabitha King
writing cake whole
Writing is only the frosting on my cake. Im whole without it.
writing people important
Learn a lot about the world and finish things, even if it is just a short story. Finish it before you start something else. Finish it before you start rewriting it. That's really important. It's to find out if you're going to be a writer or not, because that's one of the most important lessons. Most, maybe 90% of people, will start writing and never finish what they started. If you want to be a writer that's the hardest and most important lesson: Finish it. Then go back to fix it. Tad Williams
writing names noise
I've learned ruthless concentration. I can write under any circumstances...street noises, loud talk, music, you name it. Sylvia Porter
writing ideas excuse
Why am I obsessed with the idea I can justify myself by getting manuscripts published? Is it an escape-an excuse for any social failure-so I can say "No, I don't go out for many extracurricular activities, but I spend a lot of time writing." Sylvia Plath
writing letters writing-poems
But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.
writing america people
Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.
writing laughing trying
So you got rid of your astonishment that someone could write so much more dynamically than you. You stopped cherishing your aloneness and poetic differentness to your delicately flat little bosom. You said: she's to good to forget. How about making her a friend and competitor — you could learn alot from her. So you'll try. So maybe she'll laugh in your face. So maybe she'll beat you hollow in the end. So anyhow, you'll try, and maybe, possibly, she can stand you. Here's hoping!
writing england comfort
England offers new comforts. I could write a novel there.