Quotes about writ
writing reader ifs
Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing? Ed McBain
writing night next-day
Time can't be managed. I merely manage activities. Each night, I write down on a sheet of paper a list of the things I have to accomplish the next day. And when I wake up ... I do them. Earl Nightingale
writing difficult
Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult. Elizabeth David
writing two letters
It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. Elizabeth Drew
writing self names
Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.
writing doe written
I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does. Elizabeth Bishop
writing thinking littles
And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.
writing life-is bigs
Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do. Elizabeth Edwards
writing ideas surface
If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. Elizabeth Bowen
writing people should
Dialogue should show the relationships among people.
writing reality may
The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which has awaited him--a subject sometimes no part of his conscious plan. Reality, the reality of sensation, has accumulated where it was least sought. To write is to be captured--captured by some experience to which one may have given hardly a thought.
writing bears
Bring all your intelligence to bear on your beginning.
writing light color
Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.
writing character unique
What must novel dialogue . . . really be and do? It must be pointed, intentional, relevant. It must crystallize situation. It must express character. It must advance plot. During dialogue, the characters confront one another. The confrontation is in itself an occasion. Each one of these occasions, throughout the novel, is unique.
writing character mean
Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make analysis or explanation of the relationships between the characters unnecessary.
writing character fighting
Short of a small range of physical acts-a fight, murder, lovemaking-dialogue is the most vigorous and visible inter-action of which characters in a novel are capable. Speech is what characters do to each other.
writing dialogue deals
All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.
writing thoughtful thinking
Temperamentally, the writer exists on happenings, on contacts, conflicts, action and reaction, speed, pressure, tension. Were he acontemplative purely, he would not write.
writing intelligent thinking
I am fully intelligent only when I write. I have a certain amount of small-change intelligence, which I carry round with me as, at any rate in a town, one has to carry small money, for the needs of the day, the non-writing day. But it seems to me I seldom purely think ... if I thought more I might write less.
writing style phony
Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.
writing looks littles
... it appears to me that problems, inherent in any writing, loom unduly large when one looks ahead. Though nothing is easy, little is quite impossible.
writing eye adults
The writer, unlike his non-writing adult friend, has no predisposed outlook; he seldom observes deliberately. He sees what he didnot intend to see; he remembers what does not seem wholly possible. Inattentive learner in the schoolroom of life, he keeps some faculty free to veer and wander. His is the roving eye.
writing boys pigs
Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane; another won't get over the right stile ...
writing paper littles
Nothing arrives on paper as it started, and so much arrives that never started at all. To write is always to rave a little-even if one did once know what one meant
writing literature firsts
The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
writing character mistress
Jane Austen, much in advance of her day, was a mistress of the use of the dialogue. She used it as dialogue should be used-to advance the story; not only to show the characters, but to advance.
writing said turns
What is being said is the effect of something that has happened; at the same time, what is being said is in itself something happening, which will, in turn, leave its effect.
writing names
Everything that I write will be signed with my name. Elinor Glyn
writing mail
Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail. Eliot Spitzer
writing attention may
I cannot stand public attention, I just can't. Of course, if I may I might write something instead Elfriede Jelinek
writing feelings want
I do not want to have the feeling of writing "for eternity," so to speak.
writing worry feelings
I have the feeling it will influence my future writing to the extent that without any material worries I could develop a greater ease, even lightheartedness, in my writing
writing character voice
Whether I'm writing the script, or someone else writes the initial draft, I'm always an actor's director first. I always try to listen to them a lot, and try to put their voices into their character. Dito Montiel