Quotes about writing
writing letters able
How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous. Haruki Murakami
writing quality important
You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.
writing people needs
Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.
writing long letters
I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel
writing garden forests
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.
writing heart shadow
My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart...
writing people floating
Information is floating around really fast. I write something, or a piece of my music comes out and I see people writing about it on the Internet as if I'm having a conversation with them. We've never met, but somehow, my music is communicating something to them. Very often, it really makes them feel something. Hans Zimmer
writing ideas long
The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
writing feelings want
I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.
writing doctors flying
Everybody has a talent, whether it's scrapbooking, or kite-flying, or brain surgery, or writing, everybody has a talent. And if they discover it, and they turn it to their purposes and make a living out of it, then they become not "that person," but they become "that writer" or "that doctor" or "that supervisor." Harlan Ellison
writing editors editing
Anyone who can not write should.
writing holy chores
Writing is a holy chore.
writing mean discovery
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with serious intent involves enormous personal risk. It entails the ongoing courage for self-discovery. It means one will walk forever on the tightrope, with each new step presenting the possiblity of learning a truth about oneself that is too terrible to bear.
writing coward commodity
Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.
writing past rhythm
I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the pasture without rhythm or sense.
writing soul trying
What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.
writing doe warfare
Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story is what one does without question. But beyond that, any writer worth his/her hire knows that all writing, one way or another, is subversive. It is guerrilla warfare against the status quo.
writing holy millionaire
You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.
writing audience knows
I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.
writing becoming tricks
The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
writing intelligent praise
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.
writing reality glasses
There is no nobler chore in the craft of writing than holding up the mirror of reality and turning it slightly, so we have a new and different perception of the commonplace, the everyday, the 'normal,' the obvious. People are reflected in the glass. The fantasy situation into which you thrust them is the mirror itself. And what we are shown should illuminate and alter our perception of the world around us. Failing that, you have failed totally.
writing absolutes kate
Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes. Harlan Coben
writing house fax
My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.
writing bores-you fire
I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
writing littles busy
Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
writing would-be boring
I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
writing care annoying
The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it. A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
writing voice should
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.
writing trying mountain
Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer.
writing thinking
The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time.
writing symphony way
If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies. Gustav Mahler
writing thinking boring
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.