Quotes about writ
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.
writing desire novel
The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.
writing novel activity
Writing novels is an essentially amateur activity.
writing hands tongue
God writes with a pen that never blots, speaks with a tongue that never slips, acts with a hand that never fails Charles Spurgeon
writing blessing people
Too many people write their blessings in the sand but engrave their sorrows in marble
writing army names
Doth not all nature around me praise God? If I were silent, I should be an exception to the universe. Doth not the thunder praise Him as it rolls like drums in the march of the God of armies? Do not the mountains praise Him when the woods upon their summits wave in adoration? Doth not the lightning write His name in letters of fire? Hath not the whole earth a voice? And shall I, can I, silent be?
writing records
I'll write records until I'm dead. And then maybe even after that! Alanis Morissette
writing ideas people
Writing the record for me - every record is almost a surprise. When people ask me, what are the themes you want to grapple with on this one? I have no idea until the record's finished.
writing sick share
But I love to entertain. My vocation is to accrue all these experiences, to write about them, to get them out of my system, to not get sick, and then to share them publicly.
writing feelings pieces
There is no better feeling than when you write something you know is a piece of you and that, at some point, is going to communicate with someone else.