Quotes about writing
writing skulls way
How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull. Ray Bradbury
writing exercise self
I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing.
writing cutting thinking
When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.
writing love-is secret-love
Love is easy, and I love writing.
writing years long
When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.
writing two verbs
Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up.
writing thinking relax
Write. Don't think. Relax.
writing typewriters computer
I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.
writing character fake
Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little character work. It's very dangerous. You'll never learn to write.
writing past reality
Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present. You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them.
writing people intuition
People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.
writing acceptance rejection
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
writing discovery way
When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What a great thing to learn: Don't listen to anyone else, and always go your own way.
writing breathing stories
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
writing waiting way
You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!
writing quality produce
Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.
writing mind stories
You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.
writing worry people
The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test things once they’re done, not to worry about things ahead of time.
writing effort bird
What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping.
writing writers-block writers-block
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.
writing forever lasts
The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.
writing culture treasure
Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.
writing
Don't talk about it; write.
writing bad-word billions
It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones.
writing ignorance way
I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.
writing light white
Let the world burn through you. Throw the prism light, white hot, on paper.
writing-every-day next world
May you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.
writing years writing-every-day
I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years.
writing failing inspiration-to-write
You fail only if you stop writing.
writing men dreamer
Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.
writing intuition way
Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way.
writing ideas needs
I don't need an alarm clock. My ideas wake me.
writing thinking sometimes
Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future.