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writing stories done
Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn’t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they’re done they’re done. Kurt Vonnegut
writing thinking feelings
I'm simply interested in what is going to happen next. I don't think I can control my life or my writing. Every other writer I know feels he is steering himself, and I don't have that feeling. I don't have that sort of control. I'm simply becoming. I'm startled that I became a writer.
writing stories radio
Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
writing opportunity culture
We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.
writing interesting revelations
The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not.
writing editors rejection
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
writing should-have giving
Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.
writing ideas scratches
Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out.
writing character glasses
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time.
writing pneumonia making-love
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
writing college creative
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
writing conditions
I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write. Barbara Tuchman
writing sentences satisfying
Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence.
writing evil water
People’s good deeds we write in water. The evil deeds are etched in brass. William Shakespeare
writing eye men
No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth
writing thinking wish
I wish I could keep a journal. I have a lot of journals with one page half written in. I sometimes will write myself a quick email on my Blackberry when I think of something. Louis C. K.
writing college artist
The Jackass movies are honestly some of the best movies I've ever seen. I laugh so hard at them. Those guys are geniuses. If they had grown up with a different group of people, they could've been performance artists at Bard College, and people would be writing papers about them.
written
We're written off every year, so we're used to it.
writing world language
We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it. P. D. James
writing matter ink
Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.
writing hands fortune
Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest terms?
writing inspire relate
You can't write if you can't relate. Beck
writing eight years
Sometimes things in life take a few years to digest, and they find their way into the work later on. Sometimes I'm writing about things from eight years ago-they just took a long time to distill and come out in the appropriate way.
writing spots studios
I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
writing pulse said
The subject’s pulse increased on contact,” he said. “Don’t write that. Becca Fitzpatrick
writing guy stuff
If we hooked up, he could write me ballads and stuff. You gotta admit, nothing's sexier than a guy who writes music.
writing brave firsts
You have to be very brave in that first writing session. Barry Mann
writing thinking insanity
I think if one wants to be in a continual state of insanity one should stay married to that writing partner.
writing thinking waiting
I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.
writing creating mad
You have certain writing tools but generally creating something from nothing makes one quite mad and Cynthia and I are quite mad you know.
writing stale
You can get stale writing with each other for a while.
writing advice together
If I were to offer any advice to young writers, it would be this: be discriminating and be discerning about the work you set for yourself. That done, be the untutored traveler, the eager reader, the enthusiastic listener. Put what you learn together carefully, and then write thoughtfully, with respect both for the reader and your sources. Barry Lopez
writing looks stories
The writer works on the inside and the critic works on the outside. I don't know what it looks like on the outside, sometimes. It's not that I'm not interested-it's not where I live. I live inside the story.