Quotes about writing
writing eight talking
I am always interested in why young people become writers, and from talking with many I have concluded that most do not want to be writers working eight and ten hours a day and accomplishing little; they want to have been writers, garnering the rewards of having completed a best-seller. They aspire to the rewards of writing but not to the travail. James A. Michener
writing imagination people
The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
writing skills typewriters
If a young aspirant had a modicum of skill and a busy typewriter she or he would sooner or later get a foothold in one of the magazines and a leaping start on the ladder upward.
writing swings emotion
I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.
writing world want
I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.
writing crafts excellent
I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.
writing trying knows
When you're writing you're trying to find out something which you don't know. James A. Baldwin
writing one-thing
One writes out of one thing only-one's own experience,
writing political instruments
Writing is a political instrument.
writing order world
You write in order to change the world.
writing trying want
When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.
writing goal want
You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.
writing editors literature
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.
writing light cities
I remember standing on a street corner with the black painter Beauford Delaney down in the Village, waiting for the light to change, and he pointed down and said, 'Look.' I looked and all I saw was water. And he said, 'Look again,' which I did, and I saw oil on the water and the city reflected in the puddle. It was a great revelation to me. I can't explain it. He taught me how to see, and how to trust what I saw. Painters have often taught writers how to see. And once you've had that experience, you see differently.
writing greed literature
The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.
writing past thinking
For the longest time I was brought up listening to only two genres of music, pop and rock. So in the past few years I've been trying to expand my interests because I think that you can only write to the extent of your knowledge, and if your knowledge is limited you can't write past that. Jacqueline Emerson
writing night thinking
I wanted to write it long before I wrote Every Night, Josephine! I'd been thinking about it a long time. Jacqueline Susann
writing way
As a writer no one's gonna tell me how to write. I'm gonna write the way I wanna write!
writing opera philanthropy
Philanthropy is no longer about writing a check for $10,000 to the opera. Jacqueline Novogratz
writing night talking
I am excited about getting back to what I do best and what my audience likes best, I am writing new jokes every day and soon Ill be telling them every night. Just me, one Jew talking and that's it. Jackie Mason
writing men history
History -- its what those bitter old men write. Jackie Kennedy
writing genius
The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them. George Eliot
writing simple language-words
The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.
writing italian culture
The Italian historian Armando Petrucci has done more than anyone else to revive interest in public writing. His groundbreaking Public Lettering: Script, Power, and Culture surveys the forms and uses of epigraphic writing from classical antiquity to the twentieth century. Geoffrey Nunberg
writing crafts may
It may take hundreds of pages before you begin to get a handle on the craft of writing, and your first scripts may not work. The next five to twenty may not either. However, the ones that do work owe everything to the ones that didn't. Geoffrey S. Fletcher
writing space astronaut
I don't have to go into outer space to write about an astronaut.
writing years promise
I devoted myself to writing for years without representation or a promise of anything. And there were times when I felt quite down about my prospects.
writing laughing trying
I've discovered I prefer to prepare a few notes or actually write the speech so I can really hone it down to hopefully be entertaining, try and get a laugh at least by the second line, and then say what you need to say. Geoffrey Rush
writing men space
Ek gret effect men write in place lite; Th'entente is al, and nat the lettres space. Geoffrey Chaucer
writing needs schedules
As a writer and a director, I simply don’t have the time I need to write and prep the movie I would have wanted to make because of the fixed and tight production schedule, Gary Ross
writing thinking artist
Album sales have collapsed, with few artists making money from albums; touring is more lucrative. But I'm 53 now and won't be able to tour forever, so a logical step is to get into writing film scores. Trouble is, you need to be somewhere which has a big film industry - another reason why I'm thinking about living in California. Gary Numan
writing voice different
I write five, six days a week. The thing is capturing the voice. I feel like I've been perfecting one voice - in different iterations, sure, but the Russian-ness has always been the undercurrent. Gary Shteyngart
writing mean personality
Don't be pretentious is my first advice to young writers. This is the big problem - just because you're getting an MFA doesn't mean you have to write for the Academy. Be true to your personality. Don't temper your personality down with words. Don't build defensive fortresses around yourself with words - words are your friends.