Quotes about writing
writing people shy
Writing is showbusiness for shy people. That's how I see it. Lee Child
writing arizona journalism
I majored in journalism at Arizona State University, where I began writing the columns I write now, but I cannot, in good conscience, refer to myself as a writer. I'm a columnist, maybe a journalist, I guess I'm an author, but writer... no. That's not up to me to call myself, that's rather lofty. It's for the reader to decide. Laurie Notaro
writing blood talking
When you see the carrot at the end of the stick, what do you do to get it? These kinds of things that come up, that come up in the story of Capote writing "In Cold Blood," and when you see the movie, you'll see what I'm talking about. Philip Seymour Hoffman
writing mind fiction
What I have in mind when I start to write could fit inside an acorn-an acorn, moreover, that rarely if ever grows into an oak. Write fiction and you relinquish reason. You start with an acorn and you end up with a mackerel. Philip Roth
writing frustration used
I know I'm not going to write as well as I used to. I no longer have the stamina to endure the frustration. Writing is frustration - it's daily frustration, not to mention humiliation.
writing years president
Any satirist writing a futuristic novel who had imagined a President Reagan during the Eisenhower years would have been accused of perpetrating a piece of crude, contemptible, adolescent, anti-American wickedness, when, in fact, he would have succeeded, as prophetic sentry, where Orwell failed.
writing desire fiction
I haven't written a word of fiction since 2009. I have no desire to write fiction. I did what I did and it's done. There's more to life than writing and publishing fiction. There is another way entirely, amazed as I am to discover it at this late date.
writing wrecks may
Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on. What else could? As pathological phenomena go, it doesn't completely wreck your life.
writing alive pages
I often have to write a hundred pages or more before there's a paragraph that's alive.
writing judging
Don't judge it. Just write it. Don't judge it. It's not for you to judge it.
writing reality america
You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent.
writing sisterhood skulls
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
writing heart mind
Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can. Philip James Bailey
writing thinking lazy
I think e-mail is kind of a cheap way to communicate. It's a lazy way of writing a letter, you know. Peyton Manning
writing should-have beginning-middle-and-end
Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Peter De Vries
writing lasts discouraged
I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.
writing drunk discipline
Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.
writing important happens
Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen. Peter Drucker
writing cutting thinking
Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they do not let their colleagues do 'their thing'; they make sure that everybody does the 'paper's thing.' A good, let alone a great editor is an obsessive autocrat with a whim of iron, who rewrites and rewrites, cuts and slashes, until every piece is exactly the way he thinks it should have been done.
writing years four
For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.
writing want firsts
First and foremost, I just want to write comedy. Peter Baynham
writing order sweat
Writing is sweat and drudgery most of the time. And you have to love it in order to endure the solitude and the discipline. Peter Benchley
writing who-we-are about-family
I write about families. That is who we are. Per Petterson
writing feet way
I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.
writing america treatment
Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America. Penelope Spheeris
writing fiction writing-fiction
You learn a lot, writing fiction. Penelope Lively
writing wells
I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
writing social century
I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.
writing fiction mixtures
I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.
writing character alternatives
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.
writing simple people
The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty. Penn Jillette
writing thinking expression
I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing. Paulo Coelho
writing needs share
I write because I need to share my thoughts with the audience.