Quotes about writing
writing ignorance apathy
I write to please myself—of course, that is a given. But beyond this reach for pleasure, I know that I write for my countrymen, that they may be lifted from apathy and ignorance. I write because of a compulsion to make something out of the nothing that is my own life.
writing literature
We write from life and call it literature, and literature lives because we are in it.
writing thinking leaving
Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre. F. Scott Fitzgerald
writing intellectual may
I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.
writing waste
A writer wastes nothing.
writing iraq people
I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way. George W. Bush
writing math simple
We expect the states to show us whether or not we're achieving simple objectives-like literacy, literacy in math, the ability to read and write.
writing data wells
You cannot write well without data. George V. Higgins
writing son ideas
My son had toyed with the idea of writing and trying to write a little bit, so that kind of gave me the bug to write also. George Strait
writing firsts notes
In Braille you write your flat sign first and then your note. George Shearing
writing men hands
The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men's genius. George Steiner
writing flying trying
As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty' George Orwell
writing liberty literature
Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.
writing skins pages
He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin.
writing talking mind
Do you remember writing in your diary," he said, "that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
writing agony novel
Writing a novel is agony.
writing political historical
The four great motives for writing prose are sheer egoism, esthetic enthusiasm, historical impulse, and political purpose.
writing style
By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.
writing class people
There is a minority of gifted, willfuf people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong in this class.
writing mind trying
A scrupulous writer in every sentence that he writes will ask himself. . . What am I trying to say? What words will express it?...And he probably asks himself. . . Could I put it more shortly? But you are not obliged to go to all this trouble. You can shirk it by simply throwing open your mind and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you
writing heart pennies
Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?
writing order long
Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug. The attraction of this way of writing is that it is easy.
writing wish doe
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure.
writing epic bigs
I wanted to write a big novel, something epic in scale. George R. R. Martin
writing want stories
I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.
writing subconscious bounds
A lot of writing takes place in the subconscious, and it's bound to have an effect.
writing opportunity class
I was a journalism major, and I would take creative writing classes as part of that, but I would also look for opportunities to write stories for some of my other classes. So for my course in Scandinavian history, I asked if I could write historical fiction instead of term papers. Sometimes they’d say yes.
writing character doe
The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character. Hunter S. Thompson
writing reality artist
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.
writing stories written
There is no story unless you've written it.
writing way freak
I’m a word freak. I like words. I’ve always compared writing to music. That’s the way I feel about good paragraphs. When it really works, it’s like music.
writing pride imagine
I couldn't imagine, and I don't say this with any pride, but I really couldn't imagine writing without a desperate deadline.
writing thinking sitting
One of the few ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having your say on the subject. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very intensely to write about it.