Quotes about writ
writing littles different
I tend to get a little quirkier and crazier with my lyrics and come from a different angle when I'm writing for myself. Bonnie McKee
writing trying get-better
Nobody tells young writers it's okay if you're not very good, you'll get better. So I just thought I'm not very good, so I should try to do every other thing besides writing. That's how I ended up being a hitchhiker, a world traveler, and a mathematician. Bonnie Jo Campbell
writing four way
In fact, when I finally realized I was really going to write, when I was about thirty-four, I was working on my Ph.D. in Mathematics. I was just about to earn my Master's along the way, but I knew something was wrong because I found myself crying all the time.
writing unhappy matter
I was unhappy and I couldn't figure out what was the matter. And he told me to go take a writing course. And I didn't even know that one could learn to write in writing courses.
writing luck ifs
I thought that you had to learn to write by yourself and if you couldn't do it, then you were out of luck.
writing animal stories
Maybe the hardest lesson is the one I have to learn over and over again, that each story is its own animal, that every story I write is going to come only with difficulty.
writing self my-own
I'm not much interested in my own self when I write. I'm interested in what I observe out there, what's going on around me.
writing skills america
I realized that I was writing about folks with lots of skills, especially fix-it skills and survival skills, who were nonetheless not doing well in the new-millennium America.
writing creating numbers
I wasn't writing stories with the intention of creating a particular collection. I simply wrote stories, and then discovered common themes among a good number of them.
writing married beats
You can't beat a good sonnet, and you can write a sonnet without being married to the damned thing.
writing years truth-is
The truth is I tried to write for years and I wasn't very good.
writing math thinking
Writing is so wrapped up in ego, but with math one is just trying to get it right, although you're often wrong. I think math helped me become a good critic of myself, come at writing a little less personally.
writing thinking specificity
I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.
writing character men
I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.
writing people needs
I mostly write about the working poor. Somehow, they're not being written about much anymore. I'm very interested in people who are in a situation that needs a little puzzling out. The thing that gets me started on a story is a person in a tough situation.
writing challenges paper
Writing is very difficult. You have 120 pages of blank paper and it's like, "Go fill that up with some funny stuff," and that's challenging. Bobby Farrelly
writing actors television
I never really wanted to be an actor. And that was the beginning of it, I began to write things down and eventually became a writer on a television show. Barry Levinson
writing thinking two
Some writers are curiously unmusical. I don't get it. I don't get them. For me, music is essential. I always have music on when I'm doing well. Writing and music are two different mediums, but musical phrases can give you sentences that you didn't think you ever had. Barry Hannah
writing kind flaws
I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
writing done too-much
I distrust thought. The interior life is highly overrated. I don't like the wispy and the vague... or inductive logic in any kind of writing. I'm impatient with writers who make too much sense. The better things that I've done have come to me by instinct.
writing golf artist
Some people play golf. Some are artists, Some jog. I like to write. Barbara Boxer
writing discipline shapes
To this day George Sr. is the soft touch and I'm the enforcer. I'm the one who writes them a letter and says 'Shape up!' He writes, 'You're marvelous.' Barbara Bush
writing worry people
Everything I worry about would be better if more people could read, write and comprehend.
writing age faces
I am 54 and age is slowly writing itself on my face. Arthur Smith
writing artist misunderstood
I'm not conditioned to be an entertainer. An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. The problem with that is artists are misunderstood by all. I'm not interested in the clarinet but in music. we speak our emotions into music. An artist should write for himself and not for an audience. If the audience likes it, great. If not, they can keep away. My situation is the same. Let them concentrate on my music and not on me. I like the music. I love it and live it, in fact. But for me, the business part of music just plain stinks. Artie Shaw
writing men genius
To use many words to communicate few thoughts is everywhere the unmistakable sign of mediocrity. To gather much thought into few words stamps the man of genius. Arthur Schopenhauer
writing style firsts
The first rule for a good style is to have something to say; in fact, this in itself is almost enough.
writing two needs
There are, first of all, two kinds of authors: those who write for the subject's sake, and those who write for writing's sake. The first kind have had thoughts or experiences which seem to them worth communicating, while the second kind need money and consequently write for money.
writing doe importance
He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.
writing use common
One should use common words to say uncommon things
writing opposites giving
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
writing interesting novelists
The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.
writing sake subjects
No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.