Quotes about writing
writing easier harder
Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write. Tim O'Brien
writing important hard
It's very hard to articulate the things that are important about writing.
writing hands trying
I did not set out to write another novel. One day I sat down with the thought of trying my hand at a piece of nonfiction, a personal memoir of youth, but over the next several weeks, without intending it, the work began evolving into what has become 'Tomcat in Love.
writing land ukulele
Sometimes when you're writing on a ukulele, you're in a totally new land, rhythmically or melodically. Tift Merritt
writing responsibility years
The habits of a lifetime when everything else had to come before writing are not easily broken, even when circumstances now often make it possible for writing to be first; habits of years - responses to others, distractibility, responsibility for daily matters - stay with you, mark you, become you. The cost of discontinuity (that pattern still imposed on women) is such a weight of things unsaid, an accumulation of material so great, that everything starts up something else in me; what should take weeks take me sometimes months to write; what should take months, takes years. Tillie Olsen
writing survival survivor
Every woman who writes is a survivor.
writing kind audience
Not to have an audience is a kind of death.
writing guy doe
I'm really glad that I'm not Anna because I don't want to be there again. I've been there. But when something does happen to me, whether it's that movie or whether it's actually happened to me, I feel that it's my duty to actually share that with all of you guys. I want to immediately go to my desk and start writing about it. Stevie Nicks
writing trying down-and
I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me. Steven Wright
writing people skins
We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s skin, so to speak. That’s why we read novels, and also why we write them–to experience more life. Steven Saylor
writing effort promise
Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labor of love bordering on madness.
writing self doe
All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?
writing world want
I would want to travel the world and write about it. To be a famous writer. Shantel VanSanten
writing hard-work kind
When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another. Sean O'Casey
writing men thinking
All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others. L. Ron Hubbard
writing religion atheism
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
writing men tools
It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless. Lewis Mumford
writing unique mind
Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not a special, unique gift of human beings, marking us off from the rest of nature. Lewis Thomas
writing garden thinking
Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't happen that way at all. At some point I get misled down a garden path, I get surprised by an idea that I hadn't anticipated getting, which is a little bit like being in a laboratory.
writing long important
The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along. If you try to come back after doing a paragraph and stick them in the various spots that tempt you you will discover that they tend to swarm like minnows into sorts of crevices whose existence you hadn't realized and before you know it the whole long sentence becomes immobilized and lashed up squirming in commas. Better to use them sparingly, and with affection, precisely when the need for each one arises, nicely, by itself.
writing lazy laziness
It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes. Leslie Charteris
writing lasts revenue
Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.
writing literature ifs
If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.
writing imagination genre
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination. Leslie Banks
writing men years
I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper. Leslie Fiedler
writing enemy gave-up
I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.
writing air situation
When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air. Leslie Jones
writing class long
Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties. Leslie Jamison
writing mean people
When people ask what kind of nonfiction I write, I say 'all kinds,' but really I mean I don’t write any kind at all: I’m trying to dissolve the borders between memoir and journalism and criticism by weaving them together.
writing thinking topics
I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is one of the biggest gifts at our disposal.
writing government people
Our people still need support. Support us through writing your government officials. We are still on the verge of extinction, with continued injustices brought against us. Leonard Peltier
writing home should-have
At this writing I can't even shut my lower jaw because of inadequate health care. I can't chew my food, I have trouble walking...the list goes on. But more than anything I want to go home. If you follow the laws at the time of my conviction I should have been released already.
writing performing
Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life. Lemon Andersen