Quotes about writing
writing bored stories
I don't have a plan for a story when I sit down to write. I would get quite bored carrying it out. Michael Ondaatje
writing stories plot
When I write my novels I don't really have a huge plan beforehand; I don't have the whole plot and architecture, so the story is sort of discovered as I write it.
writing views perception
It doubles your perception, to write from the point of view of someone you're not.
writing thinking hands
I think precision in writing goes hand in hand with not trying to say everything. You try and say two-thirds, so the reader will involve himself or herself.
writing character long
One of the things I find in writing about people who are dead is that, after a short or long time, no matter how close the relationship was, they become like characters in fiction. Michael Lindsay-Hogg
writing over-you credit
I'm all over the place. As you may have seen from the credits, I write with everybody. Michael McKean
writing blood two
I'm sort of killing two birds with one stone here, getting to write for 'True Blood' and being able to put myself in a comic at the same time. Michael McMillian
writing government independence
In the Steven F. Austin Colony, which was the first colony, Texans first established a provisional government in 1835 with the intention of writing a declaration of independence soon after. Michael McCaul
writing hacking fiction
What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write. Neal Stephenson
writing oxford ideas
In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it. A few feet from that chalkboard is a copy of the full 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, to which I refer frequently as a source of ideas and word roots.
writing interesting stories
The story is everything, so it always begins with a story. Research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as I go along. My enjoyment level varies, but in general, I'm writing about topics I find interesting, so I can't gripe too much.
writing tears down-and
I find myself often moved to tears by what is being written in front of me. Sometimes, I just sit on the couch and write the words down and cry because the beauty of the thoughts and how exquisitely they are being expressed. Neale Donald Walsch
writing caring helping-others
You cannot help another who will not help him or herself. In the end, all souls must walk their path - and the reason they are walking a particular path may not be clear to us... or even to them at the level of ordinary human consciousness. Do what you can to help others, of course. Show love and caring whenever and wherever you can. But do not get caught up in someone else's "story" to the point where you start writing it.
writing traits
There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching. Morley Callaghan
writing thinking acting
Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not. Morgan Freeman
writing names people
I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people.
writing winning insightful
Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.
writing years four
If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside. Mordecai Richler
writing office done
I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the fourth without it.
writing voice people
Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was a bit of a copycat writer and very derivative and tried to write a novel using their voices, really.... I keep it out of print.
writing frustration dying
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.
writing upset betrayed
If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.
writing
But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself? Milan Kundera
writing play territory
The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.
writing successful boys
When I was a little boy in short pants, I dreamed about a miraculous ointment that would make me invisible. Then I became an adult, began to write, and wanted to be successful. Now I'm successful and would like to have the ointment that would make me invisible.
writing ambition creative
The novelist's ambition is not to do something better than his predecessors but to see what they did not see, say what they did not say.
writing today patents
The software patent problem is not limited to Mono. Software patents affect everyone writing software today. Miguel de Icaza
writing great-love mines
Writing is a great love of mine. Micky Dolenz
writing trying speak
We speak naturally but spend all our lives trying to write naturally. Margaret Wise Brown
writing first-time
I knew I didn't want to put anything down in writing about the first time that I had sex. I knew that I didn't want to do that. Mara Wilson
writing yawning want
Perhaps the pleasure one feels in writing is not the infallible test of the literary value of a page; perhaps it is only a secondary state which is often superadded, but the want of which can have no prejudicial effect on it. Perhaps some of the greatest masterpieces were written while yawning. Marcel Proust
writing attractive-things attractive
One of the most attractive things about writing your autobiography is that you're not dead. Joseph Barbera
writing years goal
You should look ahead now and decide what you want to do with your lives. Fix clearly in your mind what you want to be one year from now, five years, ten years, and beyond. Write your goals and review them regularly. Keep them before you constantly, record your progress, and revise them as circumstances dictate. Joseph B. Wirthlin