Quotes about writing
writing objectivity i-can
I write with as much objectivity as I can. Ernest Gaines
writing trying pages
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
writing wife neglect
I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.
writing yesterday pages
Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.
writing missing singing
What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.
writing thinking who-i-am
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.
writing golden six
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
writing talking voice
I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about. Ernest Cline
writing empathy way
Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do. Erin Gruwell
writing thinking challenges
I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days. Erin Morgenstern
writing evil people
People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.
writing paint found
I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing.
writing brain different
Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.
writing emotional vivid-imagination
I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.
writing scared
Write what you’re scared about. Jason Katims
writing serious feels
And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. Cassandra Clare
writing feet royal
Someday," Magnus said, looking at the crumpled royal person at his feet, "I must write my memoirs.
writing cliche jace
If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?
writing fantasy favourite
I really love fantasy. I have to say it is my favourite genre to read and one of the genres I love the most to write.
writing home light
I would write light entertainment nonfiction pieces during the day, then come home and work on my fantasy fiction. It was very difficult to get out of the one mindset and into another one.
writing feet rose
Clary screamed out loud as he fell like a stone- And landed lightly on his feet just in front of her. Clary stared with her mouth open as he rose up out of a shallow crouch and grinned at her. "If I made a joke about just dropping in," he said, "would you write me off as a cliché?
writing character people
Sometimes minor characters are based on people I know, on friends of mine. But I'm not writing a thinly veiled version of my own life.
writing appreciate good-relationship
I have to admit that many of the relationships I write about are destructive, but that's the yin to the yang of a good relationship. Maybe you have to experience the terrible ones to appreciate the good unions! Caroline Leavitt
writing
I write about the things that haunt or obsess me.
writing reality stories
What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality. Carolyn Heilbrun
writing rome machines
I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West. Caroline Lawrence
writing narrative thread
I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative. Carmen Laforet
writing honest feels
I always write what feels really true and honest and me. Carly Rae Jepsen
writing way fascination
The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.
writing
If you're not engaged in the writing and it doesn't grab you then you just don't want to do it. Ewan McGregor
writing differences benefits
I can’t hope to convey the full effect of the embraces and avowals, but I can perhaps offer a crumb of counsel. If there is anybody known to you who might benefit from a letter or a visit, do not on any account postpone the writing or the making of it. The difference made will almost certainly be more than you have calculated Christopher Hitchens
writing self risk
At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. I hope this isn't too melodramatic or self-centred a way of saying that I attempt to write as if I did not care what reviewers said, what peers thought, or what prevailing opinions may be.
writing wind bottles
It's the professional deformation of many writers, and has ruined not a few. (I remember Kingsley Amis, himself no slouch, saying that he could tell on what page of the novel Paul Scott had reached for the bottle and thrown caution to the winds.)