Quotes about writ
writing giving novel
A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life. E. M. Forster
writing thinking literature
How can I know what I think till I see what I say?
writing records novelists
The historian records, but the novelist creates.
writing ideas novelists
Expansion, that is the idea the novelist must cling to, not completion, not rounding off, but opening out.
writing dna ifs
If you can write DNA, you're no longer limited to 'what is' but to what you could make. Drew Endy
writing might wells
I would never write, ever. I might as well exile myself. Dree Hemingway
writing thinking doctors
Make sure your family and loved ones don’t interrupt you during your writing time. If you’re a lawyer or doctor, friends don’t just stop by the office to chat or interrupt you from your work. But for some reason, people think writing is different. It isn’t, and you need to make clear that this is sacred time. Douglas Preston
writing small-rooms might
I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak up behind my back.
writing korea achievement
The Puerto Ricans forming the ranks of the gallant 65th Infantry on the battlefields of Korea … are writing a brilliant record of achievement in battle and I am proud indeed to have them in this command. I wish that we might have many more like them. Douglas MacArthur
writing night giving
With the DVR, I was mostly writing about it as a good thing in giving us the choice of when and how to watch things. But there's what we lose in the bargain, which is the collective spectacle. 'Did you see Jay Leno last night?' Douglas Rushkoff
writing want pieces
You can find truly original pieces of writing, but they're original because you go, "Who would have even have thought of that?," or, "Why would anyone ever want to go see that?" Doug Liman
writing kissing letters
The Germans and Austrians are very polite, the Swiss are very reserved and the Spanish usually kiss me. The Brits write me letters. Donna Leon
writing thinking demand
I know you shouldn't spit in your own soup but I think most crime writing is like TV and doesn't make enormous demands on one's intellect.
writing editors journalist
With the possible exception of God during the writing of the Bible, every writer in history has needed an editor. So do you. Donald Davis
writing chess pages
Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote. Donald E. Westlake
writing
Write about what you're afraid of. Donald Barthelme
writing knowing doe
The writer is one who, embarking upon a task, does not know what to do... Writing is a process of dealing with not-knowing, a forcing of what and how.
writing long serious
You become a serious novelist by living long enough. Don DeLillo
writing said found
It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'
writing paper way
He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.
writing reflection space
I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.
writing needs looks
I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.
writing moon unification-church
I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.
writing simple difficult-questions
That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to take. You'd be a fool if you didn't follow it. Perhaps it's like solving a difficult question in pure mathematics. There must be a moment when the solution is so simple and evident that you wonder why you hadn't come upon it before. When you do come upon it, you know it in the deepest part of your being. It carries its own logic.
writing years aftermath
It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.
writing thinking years
It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.
writing thinking trying
I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.
writing thinking form
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
writing identity form
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
writing thinking people
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.
writing demand language
In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.
writing deeds action
Gods revelation has always been in deeds. Gods interventions in history have always been in deeds, in actions. Then there are those who interpret the actions, and then there are those who write down the interpretations of the actions. Donald Wuerl
writing sticks notes
When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently. Don Mattingly