Quotes about writ
writing inspired wells
A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are. Philip Pullman
writing long people
Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.
writing ideas going-away
I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I'm not there, they go away again.
writing thinking luck
If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway.
writing romance love-to-read
I write romance because I love to read romance. Rachel Gibson
writing ambition creative
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless. Rachel Cusk
writing criticism honest
Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
writing contemporary-fiction needs
The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.
writing average skins
As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
writing signatures hours
I have finally perfected my signature. It took hours of practicing I decided early on just to write Pippa, not Middleton. Pippa Middleton
writing sitcom
The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.
writing names profound
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it. Plato
writing people missing
Irony ... may be defined as what people miss. Julian Barnes
writing artist creative
They told me that they are starting a classic label, and wanted me to be the first artist. So I signed, and am producing myself, and writing my own music, but I'm their first artist on their classic label. And I have creative control. Teena Marie
writing long preparation
You know that this vignette and that vignette belong side by side, you know that a certain turn of phrase you've been saving will probably work best within a given section of the narrative. As in a jazz performance, writing lives or dies by what's produced in that moment. But that moment is attended by long preparation. Teju Cole
writing potatoes environment
Not explicitly, no. Compared to this enormous, relentless evolutionary activity in the built environment, writing is small potatoes.
writing marketing purpose
For purposes of marketing, writers are designated as poets, novelists, or something else. But writing is about matchmaking, an attempt to marry sensations with apt words.
writing divorce plies
I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.
writing views mourning
tried to focus on a particular aspect of this historical moment: the failure of mourning. This is something I haven't seen a great deal of in the writing around this disaster. And my view is that you write about disaster by writing around it, by writing allusively.
writing three rioting
Writing as writing. Writing as rioting. Writing as righting. On the best days, all three.
writing reality trying
What’s writing really about? It’s about trying to take fuller possession of the reality of your life. Ted Hughes
writing thinking smell
...imagine what you are writing about. See it and live it. Do not think it up laboriously, as if you were working out mental arithmetic. Just look at it, touch it, smell it, listen to it, turn yourself into it. When you do this, the words look after themselves, like magic.
writing office house
Once I got married, I started working from an office. I found that having somewhere to go that isn't my house is mentally helpful: 'This is the place where I answer email and write blog posts,' and 'over there is the place where I do the dishes. Randall Munroe
writing internet audience
The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.
writing life-and-death doe
An author frequently chooses solemn or overwhelming subjects to write about; he is so impressed at writing about Life and Death that he does not notice that he is saying nothing of the slightest importance about either. Randall Jarrell
writing successful people
A successful poem says what a poet wants to say, and more, with particular finality. The remarks he makes about his poems are incidental when the poem is good, or embarrassing or absurd when it is bad and he is not permitted to say how the good poem is good, and may never know how the bad poem is bad. It is better to write about other people's poetry.
writing poet
whether they write poems or don't write poems, poets are best.
writing poet cures
Many poets...write as if they had been decerebrated, and not simply lobotomized, as a cure for their melancholia.
writing arrows way
The way to write is to throw your body at the mark when your arrows are spent. Ralph Waldo Emerson
writing law grace
We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off. Randall Terry
writing wish rhyme
I wish to write such rhymes as shall not suggest a restraint, but contrariwise the wildest freedom.
writing dew should
Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf.
writing quality paint
We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses.