Quotes about writing
writing style pieces
When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going. James Frey
writing thinking important
There's something, I think, that gets lost when we write something - something gets lost in the translation. So I speak everything out, and it's more important how it sounds. And applying that to more formal aspects of writing.
writing voice trying
I try to make the voice in my head come out onto the page. I try to make it much more conversational than other writing. I speak everything, so if something sounds right I write it. It's more about sound and the rhythm of speech than written language.
writing interest autobiography
Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
writing instinct feels
I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.
writing marketing touring
Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.
writing conflict dramatic
The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.
writing worry trust-myself
I have a great amount of confidence and faith in my abilities to write. There are other areas of my life where I'm not as confident, and have not as much faith, but when it comes down to writing and working, I don't worry about it. I trust myself to get it right.
writing thinking perfect
Some people think memoirs should be held to a perfect journalistic standard. Some people don't. Obviously I don't. My goal was never to create or to write a perfect journalistic standard of my life. It was always to be as literature.
writing mean dark
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of botany and soil-science; but it grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mold of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. No doubt there is much personal selection, as with a gardener: what one throws on one's personal compost-heap; and my mold is evidently made largely of linguistic matter. J. R. R. Tolkien
writing derivatives fantasy
Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker.
writing dark long-ago
grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps.
writing names giving
It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.
writing thinking people
All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves. J. Anthony Lukas
writing long firsts
I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982. J. A. Jance
writing want today
When I began writing, the words that inspired me were these: A writer is someone who has written today. If you want to be a writer, whats stopping you?
writing long feelings
Set an intention to heal any unexpressed anger that may be present in your life. Go to a quiet place with pen and paper. Take a few deep breaths. Ask your anger to speak to you. Write down the thoughts and feelings. When you are finished, forgive yourself for holding on to the anger for so long. Iyanla Vanzant
writing people feelings
Everybody expresses themselves in different ways. Some people write it down, some people paint it. Some people express it in the way they speak. We just express our feelings through music. Isaac Hanson
writing successful order
Three characteristics a work of fiction must possess in order to be successful: 1. It must have a precise and suspenseful plot. 2. The author must feel a passionate urge to write it. 3. He must have the conviction, or at least the illusion, that he is the only one who can handle this particular theme. Isaac Bashevis Singer
writing one-thing
I am one thing, my writings are another. Friedrich Nietzsche
writing thinking thinker
Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them.
writing imagination might
Having imagination, it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that, if you were unimaginative, would take you only a minute. Or you might not write the paragraph at all. Franklin P. Adams
writing speech abbreviations
Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing. Franz Grillparzer
writing imagination tragedy
I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.
writing land who-i-am
Once you have looked at the land from atop the Kahlenberg, you will understand what I write and who I am.
writing law people
Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Frank Zappa
writing oil needs
The unknownness of my needs frightens me. I do now know how huge they are, or how high they are, I only know that they are not being met. If you want to find out the circumference of an oil drop, you can use lycopodium powder. That’s what I’ll find. A tub of lycopodium powder, and I will sprinkle it on to my needs and find out how large they are. Then when I meet someone I can write up the experiment and show them what they have to take on. Jeanette Winterson
writing self literature
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn't felt that.
writing written
Every word written is a net to catch the word that has escaped.
writing fables break
I wanted to write a new fable and see how many rules you could break.
writing cutting thinking
I think writing is a process that starts long before the writers are actually writers and probably goes on long afterward. It's rather like the way the Arabs weave rugs. They don't stop. They just cut them off at a certain spot on the loom. There is no particular beginning or end.
writing discipline creative
Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.
writing thinking years
I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.