Quotes about writing
writing thinking goal
I think the goal with any writing, but especially narrative nonfiction, is to put the blockade of putting your thoughts in this unnatural medium of print and then trying to reach through that and actually convey what's going on, what you think, and make people laugh and recognize themselves while doing it. Definitely the laughing thing. Sloane Crosley
writing weekend vacation
I write on weekends, on vacation, and, really - on deadline and on my floor. Both terrible for the back.
writing emotional thinking
Some of the writers I admire who seem very, very funny and very emotional to me can develop a closeness with the reader without giving too much of themselves away. Lorrie Moore comes to mind, as does David Sedaris. When they write, the reader thinks that they're being trusted as a friend.
writing home night
The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending.
writing two voice
I thought I was going to write fiction but I fell backwards into non-fiction. It started when I got locked out of two apartments in one day and I told the story to some friends, one of whom worked in the 'Village Voice' and asked me to turn it into an essay.
writing different type
I like writing different types of music. I don't like being stuck into one thing. Sky Ferreira
writing i-can courses
She asked me could I read and write. I told her, "Of course, and I can talk too. Sister Souljah
writing guitar crap
I'm a crap guitarist and I find it really hard writing on my own. Siobhan Fahey
writing
You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success. Sissy Spacek
writing fiction remember
Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened. Siri Hustvedt
writing assumption
There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.
writing thinking people
I do as much bookish research as I can but when I sit down to write, often I think, 'Wait, I was there.' That is one of the great advantages of having wandered around the world and lived in so many places and met such fascinating people. Simon Winchester
writing royal irony
Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty. Simon Van Booy
writing scientist
Don't be a writer. Writing is an escape from something. You be a scientist. Sinclair Lewis
writing safe polite
Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
writing secret use
Writing is just work-there's no secret. If you dictate or use a pen or type or write with your toes-it's still just work.
writing long people
Writers have a rare power not given to anyone else: we can bore people long after we are dead.
writing player giving
My favorite way of working is if somebody gives me a piece of music, because I'm quite limited as a player, so it's my favorite thing if somebody gives me a piece of music, and then I can write lyrics and melodies. Sinead O'Connor
writing past want
There's nothing in the recent past I want to write about.
writing trying hearing
When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing. James Richardson
writing certain ifs
I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist. James Salter
writing novel great-things
I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.
writing who-i-am years
But that isn't my life. I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I devoted the subsequent 50 years - more - to writing.
writing internet flowering
On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.
writing ideas people
You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.
writing views trying
I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.
writing ideas effort
My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don’t.
writing decided
In 1957, I decided: write or perish.
writing opportunity joy
The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.
writing impulse ultimate
What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.
writing lasts
Though old the thought and oft exprest, Tis his at last who says it best. James Russell Lowell
writing waiting right-time
If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes.
writing night two
Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.