Quotes about writ
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.
writing want obscure
[O]ne can scarcely be frightened off writing what one wants to write for fear an obscure reviewer should patronise one on that account. Dorothy L. Sayers
writing nurse people
When I first started out, I was trying to write stories about nurses and lawyers and a lot of people I didn't know anything about, and they just weren't working. Donald Ray Pollock
writing trying might
I had this bad habit of not writing out a first draft and going back. For me it was the first sentence, then the second sentence, and I might be several weeks on the first page instead of writing a draft and trying to figure it out from there.
writing character
I sort of like writing about weird characters, I guess.
writing stuff planets
It's something you can actually control. With writing, it feels like it's given to you, and when the good stuff hits, it feels like it's coming from some other planet.And you're just channeling it. Donald Miller
writing thinking trying
Before I studied story, I was trying to write a novel, and it was terrible. It wasn't going anywhere, and I couldn't figure out what I was trying to do. It was really hard; much harder than I thought it was going to be. Now that I've studied story, I think I'd have a different approach and maybe I could actually get it done.
writing discipline different
I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or not. It's a discipline. So that's definitely different. It's part of maturing as a person and as a professional.
writing reason memoir
The reason I like writing a memoir is because it isn't preachy.
writing people advice
I took William Zinsser's advice that you write to yourself and you hope that there are people out there who are like you.
writing thinking super-power
I think each of us can, through our writing, discover our super power
writing thinking ideas
I think writers would do better to consider that idea [to write to yourself], because you know yourself really well, and you never know your demographic fully. You only get into trouble if you try to please somebody you don't really understand.
writing pages life-is
Your life is a blank page. You write on it.
writing knowing challenges
The flow of writing is always a surprise and a challenge. Click the computer on and I am 17 again, wanting to write and not knowing if I can. Don Murray
writing two twenties
I write every day for two hours. But it's what I do for the other twenty-two hours that allows me to write.
writing men focus
I have a certain pool of subject matter that I like to write about, things that interest me: politics, religion, ecology, and relationships between men and women. And that's usually what I focus on. Don Henley
writing people trying
I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.
writing thinking perfect
I think the biggest advice I can offer is don't just pick one story and stop, write as much as you can, as many stories as you can. The best thing about being a writer is, a writer's craft is nearly perfect because a writer can go anywhere and do his craft. Dwayne McDuffie
writing chinese want
I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel. Colleen McCullough
writing doubt difficult
There is no doubt that it is more difficult to read and more difficult to write but I still manage.
writing views looks
It is far easier to write an angry letter than to go and say angry things to another person - because as soon as we look in one another's faces we can see the other point of view. Colin Wilson
writing thinking blood
I think in the old days, films really went for the shock, with the blood and guts, but movies are getting better. The writing and directing have improved a lot, because the audience demands it. Claudia Christian
writing thinking mirrors
I think music, like writing, can be a mirror. Can turn back onto the listener, the viewer, the reader, an experience that they know but they don't know. Claudia Rankine
writing nervous tics
I can't avoid writing. It's a sort of nervous tic I have developed since I gave up needlepoint. Clare Boothe Luce