Quotes about writing
writing ideas trying
My idea about collections is that you write as hard as you can for some period and what you're really doing during that time is hyper-focusing on the individual pieces - trying to make each one sit up and really do some surprising work. George Saunders
writing used happens
Humor is what happens when we're told the truth quicker and more directly than we're used to.
writing thinking years
When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood. Jenna Fischer
writing typewriters hell
You have typewriters, presses. And a huge audience. How about raising hell? Jenkin Lloyd Jones
writing driving force
Writing has never been a driving force within me. Jeffrey Combs
writing way study
The best way to learn about writing is to study the work of other writers you admire. Jeffery Deaver
writing challenges together
I like the way words go together and I like the gamesmanship of writing poetry. It is such a challenge.
writing long want
If you have a craftsman's command of the language and basic writing techniques you'll be able to write - as long as you know what you want to say
writing eight months
I spend eight months outlining and researching the novel before I begin to write a single word of the prose.
writing house rooms
I write pretty much anywhere - on planes, in hotel rooms, anywhere in my house.
writing challenges important
I liked the challenge of writing in a very concise structure in which both meaning and form are important.
writing thinking leaving
Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel. Jeffrey Archer
writing discipline way
The discipline required for athletics carried through to writing. You call it obsession. I call it discipline. By the way, I see nothing wrong with that.
writing way life-is
I'm not taking any interest in politics. I'm not involved in politics in any way. My life is in writing now.
writing thinking temptation
hen, there's such a temptation to just constantly write things that are going to make the fans happy. Sometimes it takes a little bit of unhappiness to make those happy pay-offs work better. That's something that is fascinating to us and I think has really changed the way that stories are told. Jeff Pinkner
writing knowing forever
We just keep making the shows that we love, and the good news is that we can never rest on our laurels, knowing that we're going to be on forever. We're constantly challenged to write the very best story that we can, week in and week out, hoping that that will allow us to keep telling more of them.
writing emotional order
Our audience holds us to an incredibly high standard of continuity and emotional authenticity. We don't toy with that, but oftentimes we write stories, in order to spark debate. We're very determined to always give the answer. We don't want to leave a lot of things open to debate, at the end of the day.
writing fate destiny
My goal was, and still is, to write first, direct my own stuff whenever possible and control my own creative destiny. Jeff Probst
writing scripts needs
I write scripts by myself. It's not for everybody. It's someone's personal work. I need to be in love with the subject. Jean-Pierre Jeunet
writing thinking
I could not think without writing. Jean Piaget
writing financial financial-markets
God understands more about the financial markets than many who write about them. Jean-Claude Juncker
writing kids night
A Manhattan lawyer who describes himself as "America`s leading expert on the militia movement" writes that he hugged his three-year-old kid the night of the Oklahoma City bombing. He told junior that it happened "because they hated too much" For now, let`s accept the premise that one hundred sixty-eight humans died in Oklahoma City because people "hated too much" Now answer these questions if you would be so kind: did a federal sniper shoot Vicki Weaver in the face because he hated too much? Did our government conduct the Tuskegee with syphilis on black soldiers because it hated too much? Jim Goad
writing prose
I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose. Jim Harrison
writing problem gender
Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.
writing michigan states
I'm actually forced to write about Michigan because as a native of that state it's the place I know best.
writing would-be literature
I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.
writing i-can
I can write anywhere.
writing rose sitting
The hard part of writing at all is sitting your ass down in a chair and writing it. There's always something better to do, like I've got an interview, sharpening the pencils, trimming the roses. There's always something better to do. Going to a writer's club? Jerry Pournelle
writing kids thinking
Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down. Jerry Spinelli
writing people feelings
I seem to have a natural tendency to want to share my own observations and feelings with other people, and writing seems to be the way I'm best equipped to do that.
writing touching care
The golden rule of writing is to write what you care about. If you care about your topic, you'll do your best writing, and then you stand the best chance of really touching a reader in some way.
writing mind
In my mind, I'm writing for everybody.
writing voice track
Whom do I write for? I write for the story. Each story, it seems to me, knows best how it should be told. As I once put my ear to the railroad track, I listen now for the voice of my story.