Quotes about writing
writing office world
Wikipedia is the best thing ever. Anyone in the world can write anything they want about any subject. So you know you are getting the best possible information. Steve Carell
writing aspect performing
I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.
writing want privacy
I don't want to write an autobiography because I would become public property with no privacy left. Stephen Hawking
writing ideas creative
The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. Stephen King
writing thinking people
I'm one of those people who doesn't really know what he thinks until he writes it down.
writing shining fiction
He would write it for the reason he felt that all great literature, fiction and nonfiction, was written: truth comes out, in the end it always comes out. He would write it because he felt he had to.
writing voice stories
Sometimes stories cry out to be told in such loud voices that you write them just to shut them up.
writing dressing-up clothes
One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed.
writing cutting thinking
I want to write about spiders. To me, this is the one theme that cuts right across and scares just about everybody. Spiders, to me, are just about the most horrible, awful things that I can think about. I think everyone is afraid of spiders.
writing thinking ideas
I think it is harder to write a story that appeals to the intellect. But, when you tie onto one, you can do it quite deeply. It really depends on the type of idea you have to begin with.
writing thinking years
I have spent a good many years since―too many, I think―being ashamed about what I write. I think I was forty before I realized that almost every writer of fiction or poetry who has ever published a line has been accused by someone of wasting his or her God-given talent. If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.
writing members polite
If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered.
writing two creating
I like to write short stories more because I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. And a short story is, by its very definition, short. It is something that generally you can turn out in a week to two weeks depending on how well it goes for you. But, at the same time, it gives the same satisfaction of creating a complete world.
writing commandments
Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.
writing secret shadow
I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.
writing horror-stories guy
I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils.
writing thinking ideas
There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk about because I don't think conceptually while I work on a first draft -- I just write. To get scientific about it is a little like trying to catch moonbeams in a jar. But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.
writing thinking way
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.
writing scare losing
What really scares me is Alzheimer's or premature senility, losing that ability to read and enjoy and to write. And you do it, and some days maybe aren't so good, and then some days, you really catch a wave, and it's as good as it ever was.
writing mind left-alone
The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.
writing thinking pneumonia
I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion.
writing ideas blenders
When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders. Stephan Pastis
writing space littles
You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.
writing thinking people
A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I dont know what they think.
writing seven-months schedules
Sticking to my schedule, Ive gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a Pearls Before Swine movie script for the big screen.
writing hands drawing
The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.
writing ties together
My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have. Stephan Jenkins
writing people trying
It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life being angry. Stella McCartney
writing clear
I see but one rule: to be clear. Stendhal
writing soul violin
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.
writing rope ends
I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope. Stanley Elkin
writing exercise rocks
Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose.
writing thinking want
Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written. Stanley Crouch