Quotes about writing
writing paris pages
The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan, this is definitely a novel for you. James Patterson
writing trying stories
Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.
writing want rooms
When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.
writing blow car
I'm big on having a blistering pace. That's one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that's not easy. I never blow up cars and things like that, so it's something else that keeps the suspense flowing. I try not to write a chapter that isn't going to turn on the movie projector in your head.
writing want diaries
If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others...become an author.
writing loafing productive
Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. James Norman Hall
writing cutting fats
Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning. James McBride
writing band making-money
I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music James Marsters
writing waiting mind
You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel. James M. Cain
writing college typewriters
A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But novel-writing is something else. It has to be learned, but it can't be taught. This bunkum and stinkum of college creative writing courses! The academics don't know that the only thing you can do for someone who wants to write is to buy him a typewriter.
writing night ifs
If your writing doesn`t keep you up at night, it won`t keep anyone else up either".
writing wish reason
I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.
writing problem foreign-policy
Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.
writing age lawyer
I stopped writing at the age of 18. I had written incessantly before that. I read, of course, because I was in university, but I wasn't going to write. I wasn't going to do any of those dangerous things. I was going to be a stolid, bourgeois lawyer. James Lipton
writing elation may
I may be writing well, I may be writing poorly, but I enjoy the act of writing and sometimes when it turns out okay, I feel an elation that is incomparable.
writing two miracle
They change. They're different. There are no two alike, that's the miracle of it. But if they have something to teach the students. You can see them writing during the show.
writing biographies may
May God blast anyone who writes a biography of me. James M. Barrie
writing omnipotence feelings
The thing that usually gets me through the writing is that my feelings of wretched inadequacy are irregularly punctuated by brief flashes of omnipotence. James L. Brooks
writing people office
We do very little re-writing in the office. We often take on people who show great promise and who we hope will develop into somebody important and someone good. James Laughlin
writing come-up critics
In private some critics have come up to me afterwards and told me they honestly enjoyed the movie. Then they'd tell me that they're still going to have to write it up negatively. Joe Pantoliano
writing tonight way
I wouldn't totally rule out doing Letterman or the Tonight Show if I had a set that I just happened to write that I thought was funny but was still appropriate for network censors. But I'm not going to go out of my way. Joe Rogan
writing way idiot
I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen. Joe Eszterhas
writing cutting thinking
Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life.
writing political want
What I do not want to write is didactic political tracts. Joan D. Vinge
writing perfect goddess
Here was a fragment of Goddess myth that, through all its permutations, had somehow escaped being turned on its head. It was the perfect springboard for the sort of novel I wanted to write.
writing journalism selling
Writers are always selling somebody out. Joan Didion
writing color water
When you're writing fiction, you don't have notes necessarily. You don't carve it, it's not like a piece of sculpture, it's more like water color.
writing different fiction
Writing fiction is for me a fraught business, an occasion of daily dread for at least the first half of the novel, and sometimes all the way through. The work process is totally different from writing nonfiction. You have to sit down every day and make it up.
writing answers novel
Let me tell you one thing about why writers write: had I known the answer to any of these questions I would never have needed to write a novel.
writing elements performances
Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.
writing trying doe
The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle.
writing thinking
We write to discover what we think.
writing research matter
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing.