Quotes about writing
writing joy able
I would assume that there is a greater amount of joy for you in being able to write and help produce your own stuff and make a decent living, but not get rich versus always doing the other stuff that you don't write, and make more money. Julie Delpy
writing hands people
Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic. Julie Burchill
writing animal sometimes
I do ask myself sometimes, what am I doing writing about animals that talk like we do? But I guess it's okay if it brings across a point. Julie Andrews
writing interesting stories
Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason. Judith Krantz
writing giving trying
The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.
writing years presidential
I met Jon Lovett, who was just coming off of three years of being a presidential speech writer and had just arrived here to be a comedy writer in Hollywood. I thought he was super green, in terms of this world, but he knows so much about the world that we're attempting to write about. Josh Gad
writing thinking light
If I was painting or writing, I wouldn't veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor, I kind of think the same way. I should do things that are different and interesting and shed light on the craziness of the world. Josh Hartnett
writing prejudice topics
IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle. Joseph Lancaster
writing people citizens
But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader and a citizen, I don’t want to live in that world. Katherine Boo
writing stories minutes
You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day. Katherine Center
writing thinking people
But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on. Katherine Dunn
writing numbers healthy
I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and measure my body fat. It wasn't a healthy way to live. Katherine Heigl
writing thinking water
I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water. Katherine Anne Porter
writing imagination perception
Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself.
writing stories sitting
I always write a story in one sitting.
writing demand doe
Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.
writing goal grace
If I didn't know the ending of a story, I wouldn't begin. I always write my last lines, my last paragraph first, and then I go back and work towards it. I know where I'm going. I know what my goal is. And how I get there is God's grace.
writing rose shining
I came upon a telegram from Eleanor Roosevelt herself to Gypsy Rose Lee that read, 'May your bare ass always be shining'. That was the clincher; I had to write about this woman. Karen Abbott
writing men elude-us
Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on the road. Henceforth, we will catch only a fleeting glimpse of it -- in the study of sacred writings, in other human beings, in liturgy, and in communion with strangers. But these moments remain us that our fellow men and women are themselves sacred; there is something about them taht is worthy of absolute reverence, is in the last resort mysterious, and we will always elude us. Karen Armstrong
writing world study
I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live by the Golden Rule. This is what drives my writing. I want to point out this interconnectedness, point out the beauty of the faith in all traditions without exception, show the complexity of the atrocities that we have experienced, and our shared culpability as a species.
writing telling-the-truth reason
You can say or write anything about me you like. Just don't, for any reason, ever tell the truth. Katharine Hepburn
writing want fiction
I love writing fiction - you can take just what you want from a place, and leave the rest. Kate Grenville
writing long desire
Everyone seems possessed with the desire of writing articles upon me and sends me long lists of all I am to say.
writing want disturbed
If you want to write, you have to be willing to be disturbed. Kate Green
writing important austen
It was the marriage that was important; Jane Austen rarely even bothered to write about the wedding. Karen Joy Fowler
writing true-life type
I write about true-life type things. Karen Kingsbury
writing stories trials
I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
writing thinking stories
And I do think that great fiction, even when it's comedic, has an urgency or an inevitability to it, a sense that the writer absolutely had to write this particular story in this way. Karen Russell
writing trying favorites-things
I really try to write every day. It's hard, but it's my favorite thing to do, so it's usually not too, too hard.
writing thinking secret
It's funny to think about the uncanny reflexively, as an author who is perhaps gradually becoming aware of my own hidden secrets. Accessing that shadowy territory really requires the physical act of writing.
writing self perfection
Self-disciplin e is necessary, but so is playfulness, flexibility, joy. When you stop demanding perfection of yourself, your writing desk will become a spacious place.
writing people ifs
If you don't write good music, people aren't going to listen to anything you say. Justin Sane
writing stuff comedic
I feel more comfortable writing firmly comedic or slightly comedic stuff. Justin Theroux