Quotes about writ
writing years care
Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can't get fired if you don't write, and most of the time you don't get rewarded if you do. But don't quit. Andre Dubus
writing thinking careers
If you don't put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There's the writer and there's the author. The author - you don't ever think about the author. Just think about the writer. So my advice would be, find a way to not care - easier said than done.
writing years desire
I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires for it.
writing silence trying
Short story writers simply do what human beings have always done. They write stories because they have to; because they cannot rest until they have tried as hard as they can to write the stories. They cannot rest because they are human, and all of us need to speak into the silence of mortality, to interrupt and ever so briefly stop that quiet flow, and with stories try to understand at least some of it.
writing life-is drag
One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs.
writing young-writers refrain
If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so. Andre Gide
writing thinking secret
The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
writing generations substance
Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
writing literature produce
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
writing literature stories
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
writing literature noble
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
writing care irreplaceable
Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
writing sometimes rage
Everybody has to write out of rage sometimes. Amy Clampitt
writing mad inspired
Women who are inclined to write poetry at all are inspired by being mad at something.
writing tasks left
Writing is a hellish task, best snuck up on, whacked on the head, robbed and left for dead. Ann-Marie MacDonald
writing mind
That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down. Ann Patchett
writing
Learn to write by writing
writing thoughtful thinking
I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people.
writing
I'm very comfortable writing.
writing thinking nashville
I think of Nashville as a very natural place. We're easy going, we are ourselves. There isn't a lot of preening or trying to impress. So it's an easy place to just be and that is a good state from which to write.
writing way another-life
I will write my way into another life.
writing emotional two
I was starting to wonder if I was ready to be a writer, not someone who won prizes, got published and was given the time and space to work, but someone who wrote as a course of life. Maybe writing wouldn't have any rewards. Maybe the salvation I would gain through work would only be emotional and intellectual. Wouldn't that be enough, to be a waitress who found an hour or two hidden in every day to write?
writing awful world
Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.
writing discovery output
I made a startling discovery. Time spent writing = output of work. Amazing.
writing two trying
If you want to write and can't figure out how to do it, try this: Pick an amount of time to sit at your desk every day. Start with twenty minutes, say, and work up as quickly as possible to as much time as you can spare. Do you really want to write? Sit for two hours a day.
writing changed writing-process
My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.
writing mirrors talking
I sometimes write as if I were talking to myself, or to a mirror, or to someone for the last time. There's this element of confrontation. Angel Olsen
writing character way
I guess that in a lot of ways, my writing is more of a character to me than something that I feel personally attached to.
writing men views
The thing we call critics are not really reviewers, they are not really critics. They don't have the discipline to write what we would term as critique - it's really just reviewers. They have a common man kind of taste. If you watch them overall, they are not different from the box-office. That's my view. Ang Lee
writing scripts
When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.
writing care i-dont-care
I don't care about writing really.
writing directors kind
Now I'm kind of established as a director, I much prefer directing to writing.
writing cameras intention
I moved to L.A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera. Analeigh Tipton