Quotes about writing
writing self empowerment
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful … to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself. Seamus Heaney
writing
Write whatever you like!
writing joy rewards
I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
writing self forgetful
The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful
writing years female
My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way! Michael Patrick King
writing thinking hollywood
I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood. Michael Pena
writing trying ordinary
I really try to write as an ordinary person would, not as someone who's too sophisticated about food, or too knowledgeable about things. Michael Pollan
writing trying firsts
I try to write in the first person - the first person not of a journalist but of a carnivore, an eater, a gardener, someone trying to figure out what to feed his family.
writing stakes
Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about.
writing found findings
Anyway, in my writing I've always been interested in finding places to stand, and I've found it very useful to have a direct experience of what I'm writing about.
writing atheism littles
My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me.
writing irony
Experiences that banish irony are much better for living than for writing.
writing self tools
There's an assumption that if someone writes in the first person it's self-indulgent and self-regarding. I just look at it as a tool to understand the world and my experience in it. It's not a tool to understand myself.
writing finding-the-one phrases
Plus, I love comic writing. Nothing satisfies me more than finding a funny way to phrase something.
writing done pieces
Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say, genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.
writing doors stories
You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door. Michael Koryta
writing love-is process
What I love is the writing, it's not having written. I like the process of it.
writing thinking focus-and-concentration
When you write down your ideas you automatically focus your full attention on them. Few if any of us can write one thought and think another at the same time. Thus a pencil and paper make excellent concentration tools. Michael LeBoeuf
writing soul trying
Gradually I find that my whole soul is merging itself into this business of writing, and especially of writing poetry. I am going to try it; and am going to test, in the most rigid way I know, the awful question whether it is my vocation. Sidney Lanier
writing exciting novel
Writing novels is the most exciting Sidney Sheldon
writing world research
I will not write about anyplace in the world unless I've been there to personally research it
writing men important
I like to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their femininity. Women have tremendous power - their femininity, because men can't do without it.
writing pieces paper
A blank piece of paper is God's way of telling us how hard it is to be God.
writing
Writing only leads to more writing. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
writing judging down-and
Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.
writing quitting
I'm going to quit writing. Sidney Poitier
writing ifs creative-writing
Writing comes more easily if you have something to say. Sholem Asch
writing joy desire
I don't know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone, the desire to not be alone, the attempts we make to find our person, to keep our person, to convince our person to not leave us alone, the joy of being with our person and thus no longer alone, the devastation of being left alone. The need to hear the words: You are not alone. Shonda Rhimes
writing one-day permission
Write yourself a permission slip to be surprised by someone's potential. Who knows? One day that person could be you. Sherri Shepherd
writing tired order
I'm a method writer. In order to write about the emotion, I have to experience it. I get physically tired and exhausted, devoting hours and hours and hours to it. Sherman Alexie
writing pieces thanks
When you read a piece of writing that you admire, send a note of thanks to the author.
writing bored effort
I know I'll keep writing poems. That's the constant. I don't know about novels. They're hard. It takes so much concentrated effort. When I'm writing a novel it's pretty much all I can do. I get bored. It takes months. Movies do the same thing. It's all-encompassing. It feels like I'm going to end up writing poems, short stories and screenplays.
writing blood remember
I write in blood because I remember what it felt like to bleed.