Quotes about writ
writing people creative
Creative writing programmes are not very necessary. They just exist so that people like us can make a living. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
writing reality thinking
I think human beings exist in a social world. I write realistic fiction, and so it isn't that surprising that the social realities of their existence would be part of the story.
writing mean thinking
I think my first general rule is that most of my experiences are not that interesting. It's usually other people's experiences. It's not that entirely conscious. Somebody tells me a story or, you know, repeats an anecdote that somebody else told them and I just feel like I have to write it down so I don't forget - that means for me, something made it fiction-worthy. Interesting things never happen to me, so maybe two or three times when they do, I have to use them, so I write them down.
writing silence rejects
To choose to write is to reject silence.
writing destiny
We write our own destiny ...we become what we do. Chiang Kai-shek
writing groups feedback
Read everything you can on writing. Join online forums and critique groups, go to conferences, get feedback, and learn, learn, learn! Chevy Stevens
writing differences stories
I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I thought I was writing realism. It never occurred to me that I was writing absurdity. Realism and absurdity are so similar in the lives of American blacks one cannot tell the difference. Chester Himes
writing differences goal
Set a goal, write it down, and release the outcome. Small steps make a big difference. Cheryl Richardson
writing hard-work errors
Writing is part intuition and part trial and error, but mostly it's very hard work. Cheryl Strayed
writing men thinking
Writing is hard for every last one of us—straight white men included. Coal mining is harder. Do you think miners stand around all day talking about how hard it is to mine for coal? They do not. They simply dig.
writing thinking giving
The most important thing for aspiring writers is for them to give themselves permission to be brave on the page, to write in the presence of fear, to go to those places that you think you can’t write - really that’s exactly what you need to write.
writing artist doom-and-gloom
People do support themselves as artists and writers, so there's no need to be all doom and gloom about it. You just have to push forward. You have to follow your vision and hope for the best. You have to write for love.
writing
Write like a motherfucker.
writing figures edits
I write to find what I have to say. I edit to figure out how to say it right.
writing rocks old-and-new
I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing. Cheryl Mendelson
writing lists pay
When you're a mid-list writer, it pays to write fast. Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
writing grammy
I'd like my writing to be recognized with a Grammy. Chely Wright
writing artist people
I find it so funny how people that don't write the music, and have no involvement in it, can make such huge decisions on behalf of artists. Cher Lloyd
writing sadness able
I'd love to be able to write again, but I'm so repetitive. And it was all about fear. Never positive. Just indulgent about my sadness. Charlotte Gainsbourg
writing fighting teeth
As actors, we were fighting that tooth and nail because of fear, because language is a crutch and dialogue is a crutch, and it's so easy to just have a great writer write you a line. Charlize Theron
writing age damn
Damn the age. I'll write for antiquity. Charles Lamb
writing romance kind
I don't write the kind of 'happily ever after' that romance readers enjoy. Charlaine Harris
writing television screens
I freely admit I know nothing about television or writing for the screen.
writing please ifs
If it pleases you and you can write at all, it's gonna please somebody else.
writing names goal
Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem. Charles Baudelaire
writing literature fifty
For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
writing poetry literature
Always be a poet, even in prose.
writing stuff emotion
I'm not writing just about melancholy stuff anymore, I made a point to cover a wide range of emotions. Chantal Kreviazuk
writing thinking people
If I'm writing strictly for others, how does that show what I'm experiencing or thinking? I just got to a point where I realized I could be as personal as I wanted to be and people could relate to those situations if they so choose.
writing thinking historical-novels
Historical novels are about costumery. I think that's the magic and mystery of fiction. I don't want to write historical fiction but I do want the story to have the feel of history. There's a difference. Chang-Rae Lee
writing issues trying
I try to be aware of what I'm concerned about, aware of how I feel about myself in the world, aware of how I feel about the issues of the day, but I guess I don't want to write essays in my head about my craft and maybe it's because I teach and talk about craft of other writers as a reader. I feel the moment I start doing that is when it's going to kill me.
writing thinking people
I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about it, the less free I feel when I write and when I work.
writing thinking novelists
Maybe someone's who's a different kind of writer [would think otherwise] - someone who'd be just as comfortable writing essays on what their novels are about. Sometimes you feel like certain novelists are like that.