Quotes about writing
writing decision trying
I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling. John Ridley
writing ink use
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink. John Ray
writing essence becoming
Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer. John O'Hara
writing rejection one-day
You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction. James Lee Burke
writing two choices
You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something - why not write?
writing worry silence
If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you're no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don't hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won't survive.
writing littles might
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.
writing home mail
You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.
writing crafts masters
Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master. James Johnson
writing men self
The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street. James Jones
writing rewards glory
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard. James J. Corbett
writing play voice
I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice. James Iha
writing rocks different
The music industry is not what it used to be. Being in a good band is great, and I've been lucky to be in great bands. I've done solo stuff, and that's been great. I also produce rock bands and I do co-writes, where I write with different singers in bands and songwriters.
writing effort risk
The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously James Joyce
writing simple use
If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.
writing names childhood
What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
writing order perfect
I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
writing tables rooms
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
writing fantastic artifice
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
writing heart cities
For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal.
writing way arguing
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.
writing interest pleasant
It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing James Schuyler
writing needed
One tends to write beyond what's needed
writing perfect sun
Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear. James Richardson
writing lines fantasy
Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.
writing stuff scripts
I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right. Martin McDonagh
writing thinking games
I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right.
writing beer loss
In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything. Martin Luther
writing appearance good-work
Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith.... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.
writing creative program
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. Mark Strand
writing want stuff
There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
writing thinking people
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
writing humor hard
It's very hard to write humor.