Quotes about writ
writing impact discipline
For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now. Janine Benyus
writing done states
Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness, Janet Malcolm
writing haunting
I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down. Janet Frame
writing journey land
All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land..
writing years land
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
writing lines bottom
You write to be read. That is the bottom line. Jane Yolen
writing growth ability
Growth in the ability to write comes in spurts.
writing needs stories
Readers re-create any story to suit their own needs. They re-clothe the story in their own shirts. Put simply: just as we write the story we need to write, they read the story they need to read.
writing exercise thinking
Write, write, and write some more. Think of writing as a muscle that needs lots of exercise.
writing want talent
If you want to write, you write. Talent is simply not enough.
writing exercise muscles
Exercise the writing muscle every day.
writing ideas hard
Ideas are the cheapest part of the writing. They are free. The hard part is what you do with ideas you've gathered.
writing perfect get-better
It's never perfect when I write it down the first time, or the second time, or the fifth time. But it always gets better as I go over it and over it.
writing writing-love
Love the writing, love the writing, love the writing... the rest will follow.
writing athlete character
Exercise the writing muscle every day, even if it is only a letter, notes, a title list, a character sketch, a journal entry. Writers are like dancers, like athletes. Without that exercise, the muscles seize up.
writing thinking remember
Write every day, just to keep in the habit, and remember that whatever you have written is neither as good nor as bad as you think it is. Just keep going, and tell yourself that you will fix it later. Jane Smiley
writing interesting people
Well, in fact everybody - everybody - in the entire nation has enough stuff in their life to write about that's interesting that they could write their autobiography. And in the end that's why I find people interesting.
writing progress lucky
If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness.
writing might mystery
I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.
writing icons reminders
Before I write a novel, images float around in my head that work like icons - they are meaningless in themselves, but serve as reminders.
writing desire novel
The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.
writing novel activity
Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.
writers
If we as writers could predict what readers grab on to, we would write it. Lois Lowry
writing animal rights
We need to reshape the movement as one of grassroots activists, and not 'professional activists' who populate the seemingly endless number of national animal rights groups. For many people, activism has become writing a check to a national group that is very pleased to have you leave it to them. Although it is important to give financial support to worthy efforts only, giving money is not enough and giving to the wrong groups can actually do more harm than good. Gary L. Francione
writers
'Monty Python' and 'The Simpsons' have ruined comedy for writers for the rest of our lives. Scott Adsit
written
I had written 'Two Lovers' before we started shooting 'We Own the Night.' James Gray
writing law mba
I really had to decide why I was writing. I had no interest in going back to law; I very briefly - for about six hours - considered going to get my MBA, but in the end, I realized that the only work I really wanted to do was write. Ben Fountain
writing cutting thinking
I'm a writer, not an editor, and though the editing rarely cut into my writing time, it did take away from that walking-around-thinking-about-it-when-you're-not-thinking-about-it time that I think is important for writers. When you're half-thinking about what you're working on while driving, cooking . . . just letting things sift and settle, come to you.
writing trying honest
I realized I was never going to have any peace with myself unless I made an honest stab at trying to write.
writing decision want
If you want to write, then write; if you don't want to write, then don't write. I fell into the former category, and I just made the decision that I'd keep on because I liked it and might someday do something decent.
writing years stories
It took me 10 years to write a story that pleased me - that I could look at after it was published and not cringe.
writing school law
The smartest thing I did in law school: asking my future wife to go out dancing with me. The smartest thing I did when practicing law: quitting. The smartest thing I've done in writing: following my own head and writing what I wanted to write, and nothing but.
writing self risk
I have a horror of being self-indulgent and wasting time, and there is that risk in doing this kind of work. Are you totally deluded in sitting down at a desk every day and trying to write something? Is it self-indulgent, or might it possibly lead to something worthwhile? At a certain point I decided to keep on because I felt like the work was getting better, and I was taking great pleasure in that.