Quotes about writing
writing self salt
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself...It's a self-exploratory operation that is endless. An exorcism of not necessarily his demon, but of his divine discontent. Harper Lee
writing salt exorcism
Any writer worth his salt writes to please himself.
writing thinking self
Writing is a process of self-discipline you must learn before you can call yourself a writer. There are people who write, but I think they're quite different from people who must write.
writing preparation fiction
I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction. Hallie Ephron
writing care intrigue
Write what you care about, what interests and intrigues you.
writing voice everyday
Words that in their everyday surrealism have no parallel in contemporary writing... Music that mines the deep veins of fatalism in the Appalachian voice Greil Marcus
writing thinking firsts
I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write. Gregory David Roberts
writing caring mirrors
I was just about to begin writing Mirror Mirror, within about a week of it, when September 11, 2001 happened. I found myself incapable of caring about fiction-making for a number of months. Gregory Maguire
writing understanding sloth
I write because I admire the act of rationalization, of seeking clarity in one's understanding of the complexities of life, and I'm bad at it. I'm slow. Writing, which is an arduous and slow process, proceeds at the same rate as my sloth-like mind.
writing college fiction
This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard to make a living as a writer. At that point, I was more interested in fiction writing. Hooman Majd
writing ipods jam
I carry my iPod everywhere. My favorite group is the John Butler Trio, an Australian jam band. The lead singer and guitarist writes amazing lyrics. Hope Solo
writing years twelve
No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old. Ignazio Silone
writing fiction scottish
Right from the very beginning, I knew I wanted to write palpably Scottish fiction. Ian Rankin
writing people trying
I tend to discourage people from calling me 'Sir Ian,' because I don't like being separated out from the rest of the population. Of course, it can be useful if you're writing an official letter, like trying to get a visa or something passed through Parliament. They're impressed by these things. Ian Mckellen
writing tree looks
When you look at the sheer volume of paper usage in the U.S. alone, it's truly frightening: paper towels, toilet paper, napkins, writing paper. Our consumption of trees is endless. Ian Somerhalder
writing drawing giving
There's always going to be a little bit of autobiographical content to everything. It's how you lend some authority to what you write - you give it that weight by drawing on your direct experiences and indirect experiences from people that you know well, or a little. Ian Anderson
writing thinking guitar
As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.
writing cost want
I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them. Iain Banks
writing past perfect
Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try to polish every sentence there's a chance you'll never get past the first chapter.
writing thinking stories
I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
writing skills ability
You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
writing desire ifs
If the desire to write is not accompanied by actual writing, then the desire must be not to write. Hugh Prather
writing thinking looks
A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological! Hans Magnus Enzensberger
writing emotional impact
In writing, I search for believability, simplicity and emotional impact. Hal David
writing thinking acting
I like acting and things when I like the writing. If I don't like the writing, I don't like acting. I think in some ways everything starts for me from the place of writing. Greta Gerwig
writing make-me-happy
Writing makes me happy. Gretchen Rubin
writing ifs accidents
I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident. Gordon Getty
writing men serious-illness
I know of no other practise which will make one more attractive in conversation than to be well-read in a variety of subjects. There is a great potential within each of us to go on learning. Regardless of our age, unless there be serious illness, we can read, study, drink in the writings of wonderful men and women. It is never too late to learn. Gordon B. Hinckley
writing men verdi
A man like Verdi must write like Verdi. Giuseppe Verdi
writing ideas giving
Write. Don't talk about writing. Don't tell me about your wonderful story ideas. Don't give me a bunch of "somedays." Plant your ass and scribble, type, keyboard. If you have any talent at all, it will leak out despite your failure to pay attention in English. Glen Cook
writing simple men
When I write a word in English, a simple one, such as, say, 'chief,' I have unwittingly ushered a querulous horde into the room. The Roman legionary is there, shaking his cap, or head, and Andy Capp is there, slouching in his signature working man's headgear. Geraldine Brooks
writing past empathy
You can't write about the past and ignore religion. It was such a fundamental, mind-shaping, driving force for pre-modern societies. I'm very interested in what religion does to us - its capacity to create love and empathy or hatred and violence.
writing thinking fiction
When you're writing non-fiction, you go as far as you can go, and then ethically you have to stop. You can't go. You can't suppose. You can't imagine. And I think there's something in human nature that wants to finish the story.