Quotes about writing
writing research
I do like the research part of writing, I must admit. C. J. Box
writing silence eating
The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me. C. K. Williams
writing waiting different
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
writing thinking editors
I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers. C. S. Forester
writing home wrecks
Novel writing wrecks homes.
writing way ends
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
writing novel knows
Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
writing men doe
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
writing night months
Writing day and night for months ... that's hard. C. J. Cherryh
writing long garbage
It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.
writing fiction world
I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible things that happen every day in the world. Which I have no interest in doing. Bryan Fuller
writing made feels
I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good. Cathy Marie Buchanan
writing power men
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings. Catherine the Great
writing want position
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
writing eyebrows ifs
If Russians knew how to read, they would write me off.
writing fire long
I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the old world looked at a woman alone and immortal and said: she must long to die, I have tried to say: look at her live! Catherynne M. Valente
writing novel ought
Someone ought to write a novel about me,
writing play people
There's nothing personal in it [THE SKRIKER]. I'm not ever inclined with any of the plays to say, This is about that, because plays are about the whole event that they are. . . . I was certainly wanting to write a play about damage - damage to nature and damage to people, both of which there's plenty of about. To that extent, I was writing a play about England now. Caryl Churchill
writing prejudice language
Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved. Casey Miller
writing world wanted
I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly. Carl Honore
writing shining decision
No deliberative body is manifestly less qualified to make decisions about public education than our state Legislature. With a few shining exceptions, most of these clowns don't read, can't write, and clearly can't add. Carl Hiaasen
writing evil people
The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories. Carl Jung
writing speaks-out tasks
All my writings may be considered tasks imposed from within, their source was a fateful compulsion. What I wrote were things that assailed me from within myself. I permitted the spirit that moved me to speak out.
writing fate men
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.
writing authority feels
I like writing flawed women, and being one, its something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority. Callie Khouri
writing people female
We have a lot of women on the staff, obviously. It's a predominantly female writing staff and we hire the best people. It's not like we go we need more women or we need four women directing.
writing thinking television
I remember when I used to have actual time to write and now you don't have time and you just do it. I think it explains a lot about television.
writing inappropriate ifs
If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. Calvin Trillin
writing delivery
When you're writing, you are robbed of your delivery.
writing self-confidence thinking
I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot.
writing might interest
What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place.
writing inappropriate source
There's always a source for humor [in politics]. If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny. So it sort of selects itself. It has to. And plus, often something that wouldn't be funny at the time is okay to make jokes about later.
writing america may
In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.