Quotes about writing
writing judging fit
Never judge your own writing. You're not fit to do so. Isaac Asimov
writing cutting lessons
We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth-if such a thing can even be said to exist.
writing long-ago mind
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.
writing firsts steps
The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.
writing science love-is
Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to 18 hours a day. Typing 90 words a minute, I've done better than 50 pages a day. Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up-well, maybe once.
writing sleep typewriters
Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something.
writing science fiction
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
writing long-ago mind
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics-Well, they can do whatever they wish.
writing interest interruptions
Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.
writing thinking fingers
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
writing creative world
No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if they spread the knowledge as widely as possible.
writing teach
It's the writing that teaches you.
writing firsts duty
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else. Iris Chang
writing thinking may
I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
writing people liberty
For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.
writing piano play
I play piano and write better than I can sing. Irene Cara
writing people never-change
People say, "You should write lyrics" and I say I'm quite happy not to, because I like being part of that process where you write your version of what someone else's lyrics are saying to you, and that enjoyment has never changed. Elton John
writing rocks phones
I don't have a computer. I am the Luddite of rock'n'roll, I don't have a portable phone. I write things down.
writing mean law
I mean, in some cases with libel laws, you know, they can write things about people who have no course of action, because they can't afford to take legal action against them.
writing piano i-can
I am such a Luddite when it comes to making music. All I can do is write at the piano.
writing responsibility healing
So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis Ellen Bass
writing want firsts
Poetry is the most intimate of all writing. I want to speak first from me to myself and then from me to you.
writing mind pieces
A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind. Ellen Gilchrist
writing long mind
Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay in our minds. Their stories are part of us as long as we live and as long as we tell them or write them down.
writing good-friend intelligent
How often I have tried to tell writing students that the first thing a writer must do is love the reader and wish the reader well. The writer must trust the reader to be at least as intelligent as he is. Only in such well wishing and trust, only when the writer feels he is writing a letter to a good friend, only then will the magic happen.
writing league effort
I suppose that the first organized effort that might be considered something of civil rights was the Young Negroes' Cooperative League. Now, this offers certain contradictions at this point, perhaps, because it was stimulated by the writings of George Schayler who, at this point, is considered an arch-conservative, I understand. Ella Baker
writing one-day want
I want to write and direct a movie one day. Elle Fanning
writing mind study
It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
writing mean thinking
I couldn't think about novels at all. It seemed the only writing that was appropriate to that horrendous event was journalism, reportage. And, in fact, I think the profession rose quite honorably to the task. Novelists require a slower turnover, I mean, in time. Ian Mcewan
writing giving people
When people ask, "Is there any advice you'd give a young writer?," I say write short stories. They afford lots of failure. Pastiche is a great way to start.
writing
I'm quite good at not writing.
writing perfect if-i-could
If I could write the perfect novella I would die happy.
writing people fiction
The best way to tell people about climate change is through non-fiction. There's a vast literature of outstanding writing on the subject.