Quotes about writing
writing optimism matter
The act of writing is an act of optimism. You would not take the trouble to do it if you felt that it didn't matter. Edward Albee
writing men adequate
I don't want to write any more for the old Man-power instruments and am handicapped by the lack of adequate electrical instruments for which I now conceive my music. Edgard Varese
writing want draws
I dont want to write, Id rather draw. Eddie Campbell
writing browsing dictionary
Words fascinate me. They always have. For me, browsing in a dictionary is like being turned loose in a bank. Eddie Cantor
writing progress world
I was interested in writing about gender in this future world where progress has not only halted but turned backward. On another note, sometimes the personal is not so politically correct, and what we are turned on by can't be made to behave. Edan Lepucki
writing thinking needs
have a much harder time writing stories than novels. I need the expansiveness of a novel and the propulsive energy it provides. When I think about scene - and when I teach scene writing - I'm thinking about questions. What questions are raised by a scene? What questions are answered? What questions persist from scene to scene to scene?
writing thinking long
At Ucross I learned that I am capable of focusing deeply for long periods of time. I love to write. I don't think I would have said that before this trip.
writing heart joy
I observe, I write, I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to loose but lost and have to remember, being here fills my heart with so much joy, even if the joy isn't mine, and at the end of the day I fill the suitcase with old news. Jonathan Safran Foer
writing space stories
I went to the guest room and pretended to write. I hit the space bar again and again and again. My life story was spaces.
writing office needs
I need an office, so I can have a place where I don't write.
writing needs
I always write out of a need to read something, rather than a need to write something.
writing home son
A few days after we came home from the hospital, I sent a letter to a friend, including a photo of my son and some first impressions of fatherhood. He responded, simply, 'Everything is possible again.' It was the perfect thing to write, because that was exactly how it felt. We could retell our stories and make them better, more representative or aspirational. Or we could choose to tell different stories. The world itself had another chance.
writing second-chance chance
With writing, we have second chances.
writing
Let love write on you for awhile.
writing long intuition
One of the things that I love about writing novels is that it really doesn't matter what next step you take as long as you're pursuing some intuition or instinct. Of course, then, intuitions or instincts don't make for great novels, but they often make for good first drafts.
writing thinking risk
I think it's a greater risk not to write about 9\11. If you're in my position - a New Yorker who felt the event very deeply and a writer who wants to write about things he feels deeply about - I think it's risky to avoid what's right in front of you.
writing thinking people
I didn't intend to write about totems or people searching. I tried not to constrain myself, and this is what I ended up with. There's this great Auden quote: "I look at what I write so I can see what I think."
writing self two
Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states -- "fear societies" and "free societies," two kinds of consciousness. The consciousness derived of oppression is despairing, fatalistic, and fearful of inquiry. It is mistrustful of the self and forced to trust external authority. It is premised on a dearth of self-respect. It is cramped. In contrast, the consciousness of freedom is one of expansiveness, trust of the self, and hope. It is a consciousness of limitless inquiry. It builds up in a citizen a wealth of self-respect. Naomi Wolf
writing water gossip
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge. Napoleon Hill
writing impossible
You write to me that it's impossible. The word is not French. Napoleon Bonaparte
writing men vanity
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
writing race greek
Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.
writing slang
I write in American slang. Norman Spinrad
writing people giving
For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he can exploit; for the serious good writer it releases his experiences or emotions from himself and incorporates them into literature, where they belong. Northrop Frye
writing aphorism translate
Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.
writing looks use
We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us.
writing may attributes
Beauty and truth may be attributes of good writing, but if the writer deliberately aims at truth, he is likely to find that what he has hit is the didactic.
writing style together
I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're in the middle of putting your work together. Norman Mailer
writing venture bypass
Amateurs... venture into scenes that a writer with more experience (and more professional concern) would bypass or eschew altogether.
writing adjectives mark
Over-certified adjectives are the mark of most best-seller writing
writing way
The way you write affects what you say.
writing character elude-you
To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you... a truth... that used to elude you.
writing damage desks
Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at a desk and squeeze words out of yourself.