Quotes about writ
writing stuff firsts
Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be. Rose Tremain
writing understanding world
Forget the boring old dictum, 'Write about what you know.' Instead, seek out an unknown yet knowable area of experience that's going to enhance your understanding of the world and write about that.
writing trying short-story
[Jorge Luis Borges] had short stories, and I was trying to learn how to write short stories, and then he had these things in the middle that were like fables, and I loved hearing fables. Sandra Cisneros
writing heart thinking
I don't really think our government at heart wants peace. So I urge you, write to Mrs. Laura Bush, because she reads.
writing giving people
I can't stand it when people say, "If you're writing a novel, you should read this and that." Because it's like giving someone another person's prescription. How do you know that's what they need?
writing little-things intrigued
I was looking at a lot of experimental writers, and I was very intrigued by short-short fiction, writers who would write little things, what I call buttons now, little vignettes.
writing fiction helping
Writing poetry helps me to write my fiction; each thing helps the other.
writing good-friend language
You meditate and then you can put on your pajamas, or you can imagine you're wearing your pajamas, and you talk about your piece of writing in the language you would use if you were wearing your pajamas and you were seated at a table with your very good friend. And you wouldn't have to get all dressed up or clean up the table.
writing stories littles
It's difficult for me to have a large story, a very large story - a novel is a large story. I'm used to writing and doing these little miniature paintings.
writing house maps
I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is a map of how this writer had to break many barriers to find, not a room of her own, but a house of her own.
writing different
Write about what makes you different.
writing giving latina
I am a woman, and I am a Latina. Those are the things that make my writing distinctive. Those are the things that give my writing power.
writing
I began writing as an experimental writer.
writing worry people
The ideal for me is to mix it up. When I have a writing workshop, I like to have people that are anthropologists and people who are poking around in other fields, I like to have them all in the same workshop, and not worry about genre.
writing criticism hazards
An author places himself uncalled before the tribunal of criticism and solicits fame at the hazard of disgrace. Samuel Johnson
writing worst rate
While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best.
writing
By writing, you learn to write.
writing men might
Every man speaks and writes with intent to be understood; and it can seldom happen but he that understands himself might convey his notions to another, if, content to be understood, he did not seek to be admired.
writing unexpected common
It is indeed certain, that whoever attempts any common topick, will find unexpected coincidences of his thoughts with those of other writers; nor can the nicest judgment always distinguish accidental similitude from artful imitation.
writing abuse tragedy
You may abuse a tragedy, though you cannot write one. You may scold a carpenter who has made you a bad table, though you cannot make a table. It is not your trade to make tables.
writing blessing liberty
The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne by the multitude of our assailants.
writing practice mind
To fix the thoughts by writing, and subject them to frequent examinations and reviews, is the best method of enabling the mind to detect its own sophisms, and keep it on guard against the fallacies which it practices on others
writing procrastination sisterhood
The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
writing faults
Tediousness is the most fatal of all faults.
writing poet labor
...it will not always happen that the success of a poet is proportionate to his labor.
writing want ifs
If you want to be a writer, then write. Write every day!
writing different praise
..to write and to live are very different. Many who praise virtue, do no more than praise it.
writing suffering principles
I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.
writing generations poet
[The poet] must write as the interpreter of nature and the legislator of mankind, and consider himself as presiding over the thoughts and manners of future generations, as a being superior to time and place.
writing suffering lovers
Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.
writing silence abuse
Abuse is often of service. There is nothing so dangerous to an author as silence.
writing men political
A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit.
writing learning dresses
Language is the dress of thought.