Quotes about writing
writing people periods
Most people who are writers go through periods when they can't write. Joyce Carol Oates
writing lost has-beens
One writes to memorialize, and to bring to life again that which has been lost.
writing world violence
It seems disingenuous to ask a writer why she, or he, is writing about a violent subject when the world and history are filled with violence.
writing crafts austerity
On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.
writing different impossible
It's impossible to read a distinctive stylist like Faulkner, Joyce, Kafka, Mann, Woolf, James - and many more - without wanting to write, however entirely different one's writing will be.
writing men class
while there are 'women writers' there are not, and have never been, 'men writers.' This is an empty category, a class without specimens; for the noun 'writer' - the very verb 'writing' - always implies masculinity.
writing ironic moral
"Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.
writing perspective political
It would be difficult for a writer of realism to avoid suggesting a political/moral perspective in his or her fiction. "Politics" per se is absent from my writing but there is usually a moral (if ironic) compass.
writing
Writing allows for fictitious voices - the voices of persons unlike myself - that might otherwise be muted.
writing
Though I revise constantly as I write, I will usually revise much of the work again after I've reached the ending.
writing soul cards
I have forced myself to begin writing when I've been utterly exhausted, when I've felt my soul as thin as a playing card…and somehow the activity of writing changes everything.
writing finals firsts
The first sentence cant be written until the final sentence is written.
writing apology want
Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.
writing my-family
I do a lot of writing about my family. Katey Sagal
writing terrible-times finished
Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more. Kate Atkinson
writing would-be wonderful
Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.
writing names clothes
When I'm writing, my neural pathways get blocked. I can't read. I can barely hold a conversation without forgetting words and names. I wish I could wear the same clothes and eat the same food each day.
writing people different
Because I write fiction, I don't write autobiography, and to me they are very different things. The first-person narrative is a very intimate thing, but you are not addressing other people as 'I' - you are inhabiting that 'I.'
writing would-be stories
I can't imagine what it would be like to write in a relaxed state. I'm going to be writing some stories for my own interest. I want to experiment with different things and see if I can approach writing with much less control and in a better psychological state. It will be like breaking out of a straitjacket.
writing ties life-is
The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up.
writing firsts said
Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?
writing museums awards
I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.
writing thinking bob
I don't think I have any right to say I belong to that [Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan tradition]. I think that's something that eventually maybe you get inducted into. I'm just experimenting. Justin Townes Earle
writing views opposites
I started writing a novel from the monster's point of view. It has its own difficulties but, I'm ashamed to say, it's much easier writing from a psychopath's point of view than from that of their empathetic opposite. Justine Larbalestier
writing able six
I'm almost back to being able to write as much as six hours a day .
writing needs blown-away
I discovered the writing of Kirsty Eagar and was blown away. Everyone needs to read her now.
writing therapy studios
Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me. Justin Timberlake
writing editors age
The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help.
writing office rabbits
They put me in an office with the TV set up and said "Here's the tape. When you're finished writing your copy for the little trailer you're going to do, you'll come out and show it to us and we set you up to go edit it." I turned it on and it was just this hardcore film and I was like, "Oh my God, I've fallen down the rabbit hole." Julie Davis
writing views trying
For me, no matter how serious the subject is, when I try to write about it, I have to write about it from a comic point of view. It's just the way it comes out.
writing doors people
I guess I'm not that aware of such a big fan base. I have a few core people who write me no matter what I'm doing, but I hardly have sacks of mail being dropped on my door! Julie Bowen
writing editing acting
Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky. Julie Delpy
writing fighting thinking
I think anyone who has had a fight and who's a very good observer of the situation and people's behavior is capable of writing a fight. But you do start thinking about writing during the fights that you have with your partner.