Quotes about writing
writing illumination flare-up
Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that I'm able to see where to go. I write between these illuminations. Kate Braverman
writing heart hunting
Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating.
writing done littles
After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's whereI write from. I'm a sort of quiet little person. Kate Bush
writing
Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.
writing attention pay-attention
Writing is seeing. It is paying attention. Kate DiCamillo
writing play pieces
I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
writing drawing childhood
Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
writing interest wanted
Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
writing play scary
I've never worked with a co-author before [Alison McGhee]. Writing for me is a pretty scary thing, so it was a huge comfort to have someone in the room working with me. It became less like work and more like play.
writing rewriting screenplays
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
writing terror uncertainty
When I do it [writing] by myself, there's a lot more terror and uncertainty.
writing two goal
My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.
writing thinking joy
I think we sent Tony Fucile pictures of ourselves, photos from like when we were seven years old. That's what he worked from. He captured exactly what we looked like. I'd love to do another one with Alison, not just for the joy of writing, but also for the joy of watching Tony bring it to life with his illustrations. I'm hoping at BEA, or ALA, I'll get to meet Tony and shake his hand and thank him.
writing cities community
I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like. Karin Fossum
writing wind southern
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next Gone With the Wind. Karin Slaughter
writing college virginia
I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day. Karen Thompson Walker
writing adventure exploring-the-world
Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through playing people who are absolutely nothing like me. Karen Traviss
writing bourne
Actors can write and produce too. Then when I was working on Jason Bourne - having had that experience - instead of going back to my trailer and being separate from everyone else, I would sit behind the monitor and watch Paul Greengrass work and be much more included in the process. That was new for me and really enriching. Julia Stiles
writing perspective joy
Bill Pullman is older than Aaron Eckhart - although I was older too - and the age difference changes the play. My perspective on those issues had changed a lot. Without going into nerdy details about that play, there was something that still stuck with me. I still had the same joy in that dialogue and David Mamet's rhythm in terms of his writing. I felt like there was still something to explore.
writing editors research
Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists. Julian Assange
writing media organization
As we have seen, WikiLeaks is a robust organization. During my time in solitary confinement in the basement of a Victorian prison, we continue to release, our media partners continued to write stories. The important revelations from this material continue to come out. We have approximately 2,000 cables into 250,000.
writing thinking rights
If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons. If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you're ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.
writing dark years
The imagination doesn't crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever's there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes nothing at all. And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool, dark attic, which the writer nervously visits from time to time; and yes, oh dear, while he's been hard at work downstairs, up in the attic there are puckering skins, warning spots, a sudden brown collapse and the sprouting of snowflakes. What can he do about it? Julian Barnes
writing fiction world
When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world
writing literature realizing
Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.
writing ideas people
I'm a novelist, so I can't write about ideas unless they're attached to people.
writing thinking fiction
Well, to be honest I think I tell less truth when I write journalism than when I write fiction.
writing blue games
I threw the opening pitch at a Blue Jays game, and after the pitch, the mascot asked me if I wanted him to sign the game ball, which I thought was funny. What would he write? "Best Wishes, Some Guy in a Bird Suit"?" Ken Jennings
writing famous-writers enjoyed
I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something. Ken Kesey
writing america get-better
Me and Norman Mailer have talked about how hard it is in America to get better. Especially at writing.
writing thinking forever
I felt like you can write forever, but you have a short time to raise a family. And I think a family is a lot more important than writing.
writing touring
I tend to write better when I'm not touring. Keith Urban
writing looks life-is
I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous. Keith Richards