Quotes about writing
writing want follow-your-passion
A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write. Regina Brett
writing order phones
If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.
writing two firsts
In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject. Raymond Aron
writing purpose literature
Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control. Robert Bringhurst
writing technology style
Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.
writing thinking civilization
If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and there is no reason to think that those alternatives are inferior.
writing thinking people
When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry gets in your mouth. If people hear you, it gets in their ears. If you think that way and write at the same time, then poetry gets written. But poetry exists in any case. The question is only: are you going to take part, and if so, how?
writing sound cinematography
Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds. Robert Bresson
writing shining ordinary
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
writing cowboy land
Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other lands, I can describe people and places from actual experience. And for someone with an imagination like me, I could see dinosaurs and lost civilizations in the jungle of Vietnam. Tom Johnson
writing order purple
Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to the early mass market magazine writers earning a half cent a word for their fiction. They had to use every adjective, verb and adverb in the English language to add word count to stories in order to feed and support families.
writing weekend might
I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days. Tom Hodgkinson
writing garden things-in-life
If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated. That's because we lost contact with the important things in life like work that you enjoy, or the garden, nature, your family and friends.
writing interesting creative
What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn. Toni Morrison
writing white able
When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me.
writing black-and-white men
...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It's not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don't write very differently from white men.
writing scared knows
Write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.
writing thinking discovery
If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.
writing light order
I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.
writing self civilization
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
writing done world
Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.
writing house type
I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
writing thinking vision
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
writing waiting trying
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.
writing giving said
One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power.
writing people want
People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.
writing ideas answers
I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.
writing firsts novel
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
writing practice people
For me, practice isn't doing scales but doing things like writing, jamming with other people, or playing gigs. Tommy Bolin
writing opportunity play
When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in front of large audiences, make some money.
writing people radio
I always thought I was commercial. I always thought I was writing hit singles. These days, whatever's on the radio is considered commercial. People like what's on the radio, whatever it is. Tom Verlaine
writing knows
You know, there is something I'm looking for when I'm writing. But I couldn't tell you what that is.
writing home class
Sinclair Lewis was asked one time to give a talk to class of students about writing. When he got there he asked the class, Do you people want to be writers?and they all said yes. Then Lewis said, Why the hell aren't you at home writing? Tom T. Hall