Quotes about writ
writing judging down-and
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
writing quitting
I'm going to quit writing. Sidney Poitier
writing ifs creative-writing
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. Sholem Asch
writing joy desire
I don't know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone, the desire to not be alone, the attempts we make to find our person, to keep our person, to convince our person to not leave us alone, the joy of being with our person and thus no longer alone, the devastation of being left alone. The need to hear the words: You are not alone. Shonda Rhimes
writing one-day permission
Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you. Sherri Shepherd
writing tired order
I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it. Sherman Alexie
writing pieces thanks
When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
writing bored effort
I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.
writing blood remember
I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.
writing pages
Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.
writing years two
I write less about alcohol, less and less and less. You 're an addict - so of course you write about the thing you love most. I loved alcohol the most, loved it more than anybody or anything. That's what I wrote about. And it certainly accounted for some great writing. But it accounted for two or three years of good writing - it would never account for 20 years of good writing. I would have turned into Charles Bukowski. He wrote 10,000 poems and 10 of them were great.
writing literature condescension-and
I thought I'd been condescended to as an Indian - that was nothing compared to the condescension for writing young adult literature.
writing years twenties
You cannot write to resonate twenty or thirty or forty years from now. You only can write for that very day, but whatever happens is all gravy. John Guare
writing play buttons
You don't push the button that says "Now I will write something that resonates in time." You don't know. It's what happens after a play is finished.
writing bridges house
The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage. John Galsworthy
writing thinking men
As a man lives and thinks, so he will write.
writing thinking people
I think any music of any worth has been done by people who were very interested in the internal process of their soul and their mind that's taking place while they're writing music. John Frusciante
writing guitar play
I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead
written-word written
The written word is everything. John Drinkwater
writing firsts six
I do a lot of revising. Certain chapters six or seven times. Occasionally you can hit it right the first time. More often, you don't. John Dos Passos
writing happens
Anything that happens to you has some bearing upon what you write.
writing creative different
There are too many "creative writing" courses and seminars, in which young wirters are constantly being taught to rewrite the previous generation. They should be experimenting on their own. Every writer faces different problems which he must solve for himself.
writing thinking discovery
Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention.The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some particularly apt and original way of putting it down on paper.
writing mind phrases
The mind of a generation is its speech. A writer makes aspects of that speech enduring by putting them in print. He whittles at the words and phrases of today and makes of them forms to set the mind of tomorrow's generation. That's history. A writer who writes straight is the architect of history.
writing lust rage
To rage, to lust, to write to, to commend, All is the purlieu of the god of love. John Donne
writing scary important
Good writing is always about things that are important to you, things that are scary to you, things that eat you up. John Edgar Wideman
writing scary messages
Even more precious is his Edward writes, I'm always saying that it is not the spirits who are getting it wrong; it's more likely that I am misinterpreting their messages. John Edward
writing order years
George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant. John Osborne
writing needs need-love
Writers don't need love; all they require is money.
writing thinking people
I do not wish to criticize any system that can nourish people’s spirits, but I find that a lot of New Age writing cherry-picks the attractive bits from the ancient traditions and makes collages of them; it usually excises the ascetic dimension. In general it is not rigorously thought out, but is what I would call “soft” thinking. John O'Donohue
writing down-and comedy
There are a lot of great jokes you can sit down and write, but that's just a written joke, versus the comedy of the situation. Ideally, you're pulling as much comedy out of the situation as you can. John Mulaney
writing done matter
I remember writing standup jokes without having done sets. But as soon as I did my first set, it didn't matter. Everything I thought would work didn't work. And everything I was iffy on was funny.
writing yogurt milk
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt. John Mortimer