Quotes about writ
writing magic want
If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it. Albert Brooks
writing novelists philosopher
Great novelists are philosopher-novelists who write in images instead of arguments. Albert Camus
writing suffering today
A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it.
writing immoral
It is immoral not to tell.
writing stronger needs
I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am.
writing needs genius
Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening.
writing writers-and-writing reader
Those who write clearly have readers.
writing civilization purpose
The purpose of a writer is to keep civilization from destroying itself.
writing ideas done
I've always kind of wrote when I wanted to. Once I get the idea in my head and get it outlined out, I usually just sit and write until it's done. Amanda Hocking
writing names poison
If you're going to make work and you're going to write and you're going to put yourself out there and perform, you will be belittled, you will be insulted, you will be called a standard collection of names, you will be accused, and you just have to stand there and continue to work and find a way to not let those things poison you. Amanda Palmer
writing judging
I feel like I've gotten to the point in my career and in my life where I can allow myself to write whatever comes into my head and not judge it too harshly.
writing support balance
If your writing is good, if it resonates, if it connects the dots for anybody out there, the lovers will come, the haters will come, support will come — sometimes in the form of money, sometimes in the form of something less expected — and it balances.
writing stories dots
We can only connect the dots we collect, which makes everything you write about you... your connections are the thread that you weave into the cloth that becomes the story that only you can tell.
writing play personality
Yeah, I have the detail-obsessed, controlling personality of a novelist, but I somehow ended up writing plays. Annie Baker
writing way primaries
Writing is my primary way of expressing myself.
writing college play
I was 22 and stopped writing plays, and I didn't start again until I was 25. I was writing badly. In college, I attempted to write these more conventional plays, but the theater I loved was downtown experimental theater. I didn't feel like I could do that either. It didn't occur to me to do my own thing.
writing names captivity
Isaiah is by far the finest and least objectionable of the seventeen prophets whose supposed productions form the latter part of the Old Testament. A distinctly higher moral tone appears in the writings called by his name, and this is especially noticeable in the 'Second Isaiah,' who wrote after the Babylonish captivity. Annie Besant
writing use encounters
Whenever an encounter between a writer of good will and a regular person of good will happens to touch on the subject of writing, each person discovers, dismayed, that good will is of no earthly use. The conversation cannot proceed. Annie Dillard
writing four pages
On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away.
writing verbs used
Adverbs are a sign that you've used the wrong verb.
writing night years
At night I read and write, and things I have never understood become clear; I reap the harvest of the rest of the year's planting
writing stuff
The more you read, the more you will write. The better the stuff you read, the better the stuff you will write.
writing doe peculiar
For writing a first draft requires from the writer a peculiar internal state which ordinary life does not induce. ... how to set yourself spinning?
writing rocks blood
The written word is weak. Many people prefer life to it. Life gets your blood going, & it smells good. Writing is mere writing, literature is mere. It appeals only to the subtlest senses—the imagination’s vision, & the imagination’s hearing—& the moral sense, & the intellect. This writing that you do, that so thrills you, that so rocks & exhilarates you, as if you were dancing next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else.
writing frustration thinking
You can, in short, lead the life of the mind, which is, despite some appalling frustrations, the happiest life on earth. And one day, in the thick of this, approaching some partial vision, you will (I swear) find yourself on the receiving end of - of all things - an "idea for a story," and you will, God save you, start thinking about writing some fiction of your own. Then you will understand, in what I fancy might be a blinding flash, that all this passionate thinking is what fiction is about, that all those other fiction writers started as you did, and are laborers in the same vineyard.
writing finding-yourself lines
When you write, you lay out a line of words. Soon you find yourself deep in new territory.
writing dying ifs
Write as if you are dying.
writing grace looks
At its best, the sensation of writing is that of any unmerited grace. It is handed to you, but only if you look for it.
writing careful knows
He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write. He is careful of what he learns, for that is what he will know.
writing secret what-you-love
The secret is not to write about what you love best, but about what you, alone, love at all.
writing dying patient
Write as if you were dying. At the same time, assume you write for an audience consisting solely of terminal patients. That is, after all, the case. What would you begin writing if you knew you would die soon? What could you say to a dying person that would not enrage by its triviality?
writing needs three-things
There are three things you need to be a good writer: you need to read a lot, you need to write a lot, and you need a lot of feedback. Clay Shirky
writing people way
I've concluded that getting the categories right is an absolutely crucial step to building useful management theory, and unfortunately too few writers do this. You've got to engage in serious scholarship, and then figure out how to write it in a way that lots of people can understand. Clayton Christensen