Quotes about writ
writing people anecdotes
Anecdotes don't make good stories. Generally I dig down underneath them so far that the story that finally comes out is not what people thought their anecdotes were about. Alice Munro
writing thinking people
It's not possible to advise a young writer because every young writer is so different. You might say, "Read," but a writer can read too much and be paralyzed. Or, "Don't read, don't think, just write," and the result could be a mountain of drivel. If you're going to be a writer you'll probably take a lot of wrong turns and then one day just end up writing something you have to write, then getting it better and better just because you want it to be better, and even when you get old and think, "There must be something else people do," you won't be able to quit.
writing bridges play
I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.
writing trying want
There's a kind of tension that if I'm getting a story right I can feel right away, and I don't feel that when I try to write a novel. I kind of want a moment that's explosive, and I want everything gathered into that.
writing different novelists
I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist Alice Hoffman
writing want language
I don't really read as much as I used to. A lot of what I was looking for as an escape I find in writing. And the other thing is that I don't want to get into someone else's language when I'm working
writing use faster
I'm much faster now. When you only have a certain amount of time to write, after a while you learn to use your time well or you stop writing
writing novel knows
No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written
writing wind light
writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind. Alice Childress
writing good-day bad-day
I have my good days and my bad days, but I don't have as much energy as I used to back when I was young and foolish and didn't count the cost - and it takes a lot - to write Anne McCaffrey
writing verbs limits
James Blish told me I had the worst case of "said bookism" (that is, using every word except said to indicate dialogue). He told me to limit the verbs to said, replied, asked, and answered and only when absolutely necessary.
writing tools emotion
I have always used emotion as a writing tool. That goes back to me being on the stage
writing stories form
I would recommend the short story form, which is a lot harder to write since you have to be so careful with words, until there is plenty of time to doodle through a novel
writing vocabulary style
Tell a story! Don't try to impress your reader with style or vocabulary or neatly turned phrases. Tell the story first!
writing together stories
Tell the readers a story! Because without a story, you are merely using words to prove you can string them together in logical sentences.
writing needs certain
I do outlines when I'm writing with someone, but they also need to have a certain amount of freedom
writing feels-just biscuits
When I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
writing thinking talking
... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.
writing thinking hands
I think best with a pencil in my hand.
writing eight pages
My experience as a writer is that you really do write seven and eight pages to find the paragraph you were after all along. Anne Lamott
writing thinking feels
Write regularly, whether you feel like writing or not, and whether you think what you're writing is any good or not.
writing doors want
There is a door we all want to walk through and writing can help you find it and open it.
writing thinking order
I honestly think that in order to be a writer you have to learn to be reverent. If not, why are you writing? Why are you here?
writing emotional worry
Write straight into the emotional center of things. Write toward vulnerability. Don't worry about appearing sentimental. Worry about being unavailable; worry about being absent or fraudulent.
writing self-worth opinion
If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.
writing telling-the-truth good-writing
Good writing is about telling the truth.
writing doe boxes
Life does not seem to present itself to me for my convenience, to box itself up nicely so I can write about it with wisdom and a point to make before putting it on a shelf somewhere.
writing dear-lord people
I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked.
writing people world
I write because writing is the gift God has given me to help people in the world.
writing normal fitting
Needless to say, there was no one around remotely fitting the description of a normal person: I was at a writing conference.
writing people feelings
Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as you understand it, as you have experienced it, with the people or material who are in you, who are asking that you help them get written, you will come to a secret feeling of honor.
writing bird kitchen-table
Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.
writing thinking waste
I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it.