Quotes about writing
writing reality artist
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist. Hunter S. Thompson
writing long may
There is probably some long-standing "rule" among writers, journalists, and other word-mongers that says: "When you start stealing from your own work you're in bad trouble." And it may be true.
writing reality drug
I haven't found a drug yet that can get you anywhere near as high as a sitting at a desk writing, trying to imagine a story no matter how bizarre it is, [or] going out and getting into the weirdness of reality and doing a little time on the Proud Highway.
writing thinking has-beens
Not a wasted word. This has been a main point to my literary thinking all my life.
writing fate dark
As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I'm not sure that I'm going to be a good one or even a self-supporting one, but until the dark thumb of fate presses me to the dust and says 'you are nothing', I will be a writer.
writing typewriters doors
When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is going to come screaming down on you like a goddamn banshee. There's no avoiding it...So one day you just don't appear at the El Adobe bar anymore; you shut the door, paint the windows black, rent an electric typewriter and become the monster you always were - the writer.
writing july america
On July 26, 1916, I announced to all my friends in America that from now on I resolved to write no more poems in the classical language, and to begin my experiments in writing poetry in the so-called vulgar tongue of the people. Hu Shih
writing people i-realized
I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of the people that I write about. Hubert Selby, Jr.
writing inspired process
My writing is inspired by just about everything, yet I am unaware of so much of the process.
writing years people
One of the things I have become aware of through the years is how much I love the people I write about.
writing class long
I've been writing music since I was 9. I took harmony and counterpoint classes when I was studying the clarinet. So, I've been writing for an awfully long time. It just became part of everyday life. Howard Shore
writing able stories
I have to feel something emotionally on the story to be able to write for it. I turn things down if I don't feel I'm really right to tell that particular story.
writing people kind
It's kind of astonishing that people trust strangers because of words they write on computer screens. Howard Rheingold
writing style thieves
Modern reformers offer nebulous theories or write philanthropic novels. But your thief acts! He is as clear as a fact and as logical as a punch on the nose! And what a style he has! Honore de Balzac
writing talent particular
When one has no particular talent for anything, one takes to the pen.
writing tables my-thoughts
My writing table has seen all my wretchedness, knows all my plans, has overheard all my thoughts.
writing ink slave
I am a galley slave to pen and ink.
writing color political
Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
writing half crafts
Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp. Ice T
writing track locks
I started writing rhymes first and then put it to the music. I figured out I could lock it to the beat better if I heard the music first. I like to get a lot of tracks, put the track up and let the music talk to me about what it's about.
writing men rapper
It's like they want to shut rappers down. They want to silence us. The Supreme Court says it's OK for a white man to burn a cross in public. But nobody wants a black man to write a record about a cop killer.
writing bigger-and-better-things waiting
You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they tell you, "Here's the way to do bigger and better things," you start writing. You start writing that material that you might be doing off to the side. Nobody's going to be paying you for that, but it could turn into something big. Ice Cube
writing hands deception
Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when he came to compare them with their originals, he was surprised to find that they were nothing for his purpose! the originals conveyed a quite contrary sense to that of the pretended quoters, who often, from innocent blundering, and sometimes from purposed deception, had falsified their quotations. This is an useful story for second-hand authorities! Isaac Disraeli
writing mind vectors
Writing has power, but its power has no vector. Writers can stir the mind, but they can't direct it. Time changes things, God changes things, the dictators change things, but writers can't change anything. Isaac Bashevis Singer
writing trying too-much
When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins.
writing expression vision
Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper.
writing stories literature
A good writer is basically a story teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
writing perspective outsiders
I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider. Isaac Marion
writing rejection soul
Rejection slips, or form letters, however tactfully phrased, are lacerations of the soul, if not quite inventions of the devil-but there is no way around them. Isaac Asimov
writing knowledge law
Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they don't know what the laws of nature are.
writing two style
So, then, what is style? There are two chief aspects of any piece of writing: 1) what you say and 2) how you say it. The former is "content" and the latter is "style."
writing essence fiction-stories
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
writing exercise typewriters
When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start, like setting up exercises, sharpening pencils, or having a drink of orange juice. I said, "No, the only thing I do before I start writing is to make sure that I'm close enough to the typewriter to reach the keys."