Quotes about writing
writing glaciers grind
Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind. John Muir
writing darkness style
Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness. John Wilkins
writing mind buying
In writing advertising it must always be kept in mind that the customer often knows more about the goods than the advertising writers because they have had experience in buying them... John Wanamaker
writing years shame
Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago. John Wesley
writing house agents
I have no interest in ever making a movie I didn't write. If they were going to take my house away, then I guess I might have to. But my agent knows not to even bother sending me the scripts. John Waters
writing thinking risk
If you want to write the next great novel, but you think, No, this won't work because no one will buy it or it won't be any good, then you talk yourself out of taking a risk. John Tesh
writing history may
We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears! John Ruskin
writing breathe
I nearly always write just as I nearly always breathe. - John Steinbeck John Steinbeck
writing magic stories
If there is a magic in story writing, and I am convinced there is, no one has ever been able to reduce it to a recipe that can be passed from one person to another.
writing play giving
Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.
writing joy satisfaction
I write because I like to write. I find joy in the texture and tone and rhythm of words. It is a satisfaction like that which follows good and shared love.
writing mean cutting
Writing to me is a deeply personal, even a secret function and when the product I turned loose it is cut off from me and I have no sense of its being mine. Consequently criticism doesn't mean anything to me. As a disciplinary matter, it is too late.
writing simple offering
The basic rule [of writing] given us was simple and heartbreaking. A story to be effective had to convey something from the writer to the reader, and the power of its offering was the measure of its excellence. Outside of that, there were no rules.
writing wish certain
I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate.
writing poetry mathematics
Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.
writing want way
I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.
writing character past
A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method choose his subjects or his characters. They can't be warped to fit his style.
writing ideas track
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
writing sight mind
A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.
writing ideas abandon
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.
writing paper whole
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
writing telling-the-truth hardest
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
writing paper excuse
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on.
writing thinking goes-on
If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it-bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn't belong there.
writing stories crafts
I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.
writing bird actors
Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them. John Simm
writing thinking social
I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic. John Shirley
writing drunk drug
I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.
writing imagination people
Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations. John Sandford
writing
My writing is sort of Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler. John Searles
writing
We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole. John Scalzi
writing people boredom
As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.
writing brain different
Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.