Quotes about writ
writing mind arms
Hitch your unconscious mind to your writing arm. Dorothea Brande
writing technology errors
The only protection as a historian is to institute a process of research and writing that minimizes the possibility of error. And that I have tried to do, aided by modern technology, which enables me, having long since moved beyond longhand, to use a computer for both organizing and taking notes. Doris Kearns Goodwin
writing people body
The bottom line is I'm writing to save the dead. I'm writing to save the people I have lost, some of whose bodies are still walking around. Dorothy Allison
writing libertarian boring
What's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life.
writing order giving
People begin to write in order to create what they have not found and, a little bit, to give something back.
writing justice demand
Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.
writing ideas people
It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing what I thought literature should do - which was simply to push people into changing their ideas about the world, and to go further, to encourage us in the work of changing the world, to making it more just and more truly human.
writing stories conversation
Why write stories? To join the conversation.
writing magic naked
Write the story that you were always afraid to tell. I swear to you that there is magic in it, and if you show yourself naked for me, I'll be naked for you. It will be our covenant
writing different firsts
It's amazing what you find out about yourself when you write in the first person about someone very different from you. Doris Lessing
writing unhappy
I'm very unhappy when I'm not writing.
writing stories process
In the writing process, the more a story cooks, the better.
writing thinking down-and
I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they write about their own experiences, something true is going to emerge.
writing thinking optimism
I don't think in terms of optimism and pessimism when writing a story. I am telling a story.
writing science mirrors
What of course I would like to be writing is the story of the Red and White Dwarves and their Remembering Mirror, their space rocket (powered by anti-gravity), their attendant entities Hadron, Gluon, Pion, Lepton, and Muon, and the Charmed Quarks and the Coloured Quarks. But we can't all be physicists.
writing important care
You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.
writing law novel
There are no laws for the novel. There never have been, nor can there ever be.
writing
You only learn to be a better writer by actually writing.
writing animal way
I write because I've always written, can't stop. I am a writing animal. The way a silk worm is a silk-producing animal.
writing thinking editors
I think it's especially important for an editor to say what he's enjoying. For a novelist to be told, midstream, what he's doing right can actually influence the unwritten parts of a novel in a positive way - praise helps a writer know what's good about what he's written, what's interesting and exciting, and what to work for in writing the conclusion. Donna Tartt
writing two long
I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write.
writing long process
Actually, I enjoy the process of writing a big long novel.
writing people influence
It's hard for me to show work while I'm writing, because other people's comments will influence what happens.
writing admire maxwell
I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.
writing paper terrible
Of course newspaper sportswriting is mostly terrible - and of course it is usually the best writing in the paper. Donald Hall
writing today engines
Today when I begin writing I’m aware: something that I don’t understand drives this engine.
writing sleep bird
I want to sleep like the birds then wake to write you again without hope that you read me.
writing goal trying
If our goal is to write poetry, the only way we are likely to be any good is to try to be as great as the best.
writing goal reason
I see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems.
writing two goal
To desire to write poems that endure-we undertake such a goal certain of two things: that in all likelihood we will fail, and if we succeed we will never know it
writing light hands
Work is style, and there is style without thought; not in theory, only in fact. When I take a sentence in my hand, raise it to the light, rub my hand across it, disjoin it, put it back together again with a comma added, raising the pitch in the front part; when I rub the grain of it, comb the fur of it, re-assemble the bones of it, I am making something that carries with it the sound of a voice, the firmness of a hand. Maybe little more.
writing simple giving
Melodies can be good depending on the context. You can have a simple melody, and if the harmony behind it is interesting, it can make a very simple melody really different. You can also have a complex melody. The more complex it is, the harder it is to sing, and then sometimes it can sound contrived. You could write a melody that would be fine on a saxophone but if you give it to a singer, it can sound raunchy. Donald Fagen
writing design important
... the designer of a new system must not only be the implementor and the first large-scale user; the designer should also write the first user manual. ... If I had not participated fully in all these activities, literally hundreds of improvements would never have been made, because I would never have thought of them or perceived why they were important. Donald Knuth