Quotes about writing
writing wish doe
I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure. George Orwell
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.
writing reality artist
Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist.
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