Quotes about writ
writing chess pages
Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote. Donald E. Westlake
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Write about what you're afraid of. Donald Barthelme
writing long serious
You become a serious novelist by living long enough. Don DeLillo
writing said found
It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.'
writing paper way
He wanted paper and something to write with, some way to sustain a thought, to place it in the world.
writing reflection space
I am ashamed every day, and more ashamed the next. But I will spend the rest of my life in this living space writing these notes, this journal, recording my acts and reflections, finding some honor, some worth at the bottom of things. I want ten thousand pages that will stop the world.
writing needs looks
I am not comfortable with abstract writing, stories that look like essays: you have to see, I need to see.
writing moon unification-church
I saw a photograph of a wedding conducted by Reverend Moon of the Unification Church. I wanted to understand this event, and the only way to understand it was to write about it.
writing simple difficult-questions
That's how you write novels actually. You suddenly hit upon something and you realize this is the path you were meant to take. You'd be a fool if you didn't follow it. Perhaps it's like solving a difficult question in pure mathematics. There must be a moment when the solution is so simple and evident that you wonder why you hadn't come upon it before. When you do come upon it, you know it in the deepest part of your being. It carries its own logic.
writing years aftermath
It's impossible to write about the Kennedy assassination and its aftermath without taking note of twenty-five years of paranoia which has collected around that event.
writing thinking years
It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing is—an intense form of thought.
writing thinking trying
I don't know what I think about certain subjects, even today, until I sit down and try to write about them.
writing thinking form
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking.
writing identity form
Writing is a form of personal freedom. It frees us from the mass identity we see in the making all around us.
writing thinking people
Writing is a concentrated form of thinking...a young writer sees that with words he can place himself more clearly into the world. Words on a page, that's all it takes to help him separate himself from the forces around him, streets and people and pressures and feelings. He learns to think about these things, to ride his own sentences into new perceptions.
writing demand language
In my experience, writing a novel tends to create its own structure, its own demands, its own language, its own ending.
writing deeds action
Gods revelation has always been in deeds. Gods interventions in history have always been in deeds, in actions. Then there are those who interpret the actions, and then there are those who write down the interpretations of the actions. Donald Wuerl
writing rude friendly
We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude. Douglas Coupland
writing special interest
I am not behold to any special interest, I've spent a lot of money on my campaign, I'll tell you. I write those checks. Nobody owns [Donald] Trump. Donald Trump
writing different littles
The point is that if you are a little different, or a little outrageous, or if you do things that are bold or controversial, the press is going to write about you.
writing business-deals people
Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals. Preferably big ones.
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Iran should write us a letter of thank you for taking Mosul.
writing way saws
Taking photographs and writing is my way of saying I was here, I saw this, I felt this, I heard this. Duane Michals
writing problem interest
My biggest kick in music -playing or writing- is when I have a problem. Without a problem to solve, how much interest do you take in anything? Duke Ellington
writing play ifs-and
I like any and all of my associations with music -writing, playing, and listening. We write and play from our perspective, and the audience listens from its perspective. If and when we agree, I am lucky.
writing voice order
I write in order to make the little voices in my head go away. Thus far it hasn't worked. Douglas Wilson
writing men long
A man is in no danger so long as he talks his love; but to write it is to impale himself on his own pothooks. Douglas William Jerrold
writing laughing digging
I tend to basically exaggerate in life, and in writing, it's fine to exaggerate. I really enjoy overstating for the purpose of getting a laugh. For another thing, writing is easier than digging ditches. Well, actually, that's an exaggeration. It isn't. Dr. Seuss
writing mean simple
Writing simply means no dependent clauses, no dangling things, no flashbacks, and keeping the subject near the predicate. We throw in as many fresh words we can get away with. Simple, short sentences don't always work. You have to do tricks with pacing, alternate long sentences with short, to keep it vital and alive.... Virtually every page is a cliffhanger--you've got to force them to turn it."~
writing two long
Elizabeth Barrett Browning could write a poem two pages long. Could she have brought it to a music publisher? Dorothy Fields
writing expression needs
Write what you feel. Write because of that need for expression.
writing talking important
The work is more important than the talking and the writing about the work. Dorothy Day
writing simple reality
Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.