Quotes about writ
writing worry stories
Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just go. Jan Brett
writing home choices
Whenever I started writing music, it just naturally led itself there. As I started to tell my story, it's where my home was. It's just a very natural choice. Jamie Lynn Spears
writing people faults
I write because it makes God happy that I write. I sing because it makes God happy that I sing. And if it makes God's people happy, then all the better. But if it fails to do so, it's probably my fault. Jamey Johnson
writing sitting-still wish
I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still. Jami Attenberg
writing emotional historical-novels
I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.
writing thinking contemporary-fiction
Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There's much to be said. We're on it, chief.
writing romance great-american
Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead. Jasmine Cresswell
writing play two
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven. Jascha Heifetz
writing work-out messages
And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's message into the writing process. It's like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it. Jason Bateman
writing people peers
It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers. Janis Ian
writing burning gaps
There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die. Janette Turner Hospital
writing dark light
I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's trick, that act of creation is its own light.
writing issues goes-on
It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown.
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.