Quotes about writing
writing would-be genius
Good taste cannot supply the place of genius in literature, for the best proof of taste, when there is no genius, would be, not to write at all. Madame de Stael
writing unique play
Each play I write has its own unique origin story. Lynn Nottage
writing needs release
I need a release from whatever I'm writing.
writing two long
I wrote my first two long novels and an anthology of short narratives, when I was a manager of my own jazz bar. There was not enough time to write and I didn't know how to write novels. Therefore, I made written collages of aphorisms and rags. Haruki Murakami
writing play two
When I write a novel I put into play all the information inside me. It might be Japanese information or it might be Western; I don't draw a distinction between the two.
writing stories links
Myths are the prototype for all stories. When we write a story on our own it can't help but link up with all sorts of myths. Myths are like a reservoir containing every story there is.
writing imagination lows
Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like.
writing trying world
Kafka is one of my very favorite writers. Kafka's fictional world is already so complete that trying to follow in his steps is not just pointless, but quite risky, too. What I see myself doing, rather, is writing novels where, in my own way, I dismantle the fictional world of Kafka that itself dismantled the existing novelistic system.
writing thinking novel
I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.
writing novel seems
I always write my novels with music (I don't listened to the music seriously.) Music seems to encourage me.
writing pages next
I never made any plan before writing, however I succeeded. I enjoyed writing with excitement ,"what happen on the next page?"
writing sheep significance
If I choose to write about sheep, it's just because I happened to write about sheep. There is no deep significance.
writing thinking america
Since I have come to America, I am often asked whether my next novel will be set in America. I don't think it will. I think I will be living in America for some time to come, but while living in America, I would like to write about Japanese society from the outside.
writing simple style
It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.
writing thinking political
George Orwell is half journalist, half fiction writer. I'm 100 percent fiction writer... I don't want to write messages. I want to write good stories. I think of myself as a political person, but I don't state my political messages to anybody.
writing clubs had-enough
I had my jazz club and I had enough money. So I didn't have to write for my living.
writing twelve lifetime
A fortunate author can write maybe twelve novels in his lifetime.
writing bored people
You have to be practical. So every time I say, if you want to write a novel you have to be practical, people get bored. They are disappointed. They are expecting a more dynamic, creative, artistic thing to say. What I want to say is: you have to be practical.
writing type my-thoughts
Perhaps I'm just too painstaking a type of person, but I can't grasp much of anything without putting down my thoughts in writing.
writing two style
Good style happens in one of two ways: the writer either has an inborn talent or is willing to work herself to death to get it.
writing shoes feet
You could be anybody when you're writing. That's the reason that I'm writing: to be anybody. You can put your feet in various shoes and experience anything.
writing long survival
Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.
writing swans ugly-duckling
I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind of an ugly duckling. Always the duckling, never the swan.
writing stories serious
I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much ... But when I write, I write weird. That's very strange. When I'm getting more and more serious, I'm getting more and more weird.
writing trying stories
In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.
writing style enjoy
I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.
writing gun stories
According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning what?" "Meaning, don't bring unnecessary props into a story. If a pistol appears, it has to be fired at some point. Chekhov liked to write stories that did away with all useless ornamentation.
writing together crumbling
It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.
writing men bars
I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing.
writing want mature
Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.
writing perfect insightful
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.
writing waiting stories
When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
writing thinking artist
I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.