Quotes about writing
writing eggs chickens
Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg. John Updike
writing should-have voice
Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.
writing something-new
There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.
writing sea sailing
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
writing merit artistic
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.
writing trying busy
Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.
writing constant rewriting
Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
writing people personality
Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many people it's the height of, what they see, of ecstasy and poetry is in their sexual encounters. And furthermore, personality - human personality does not end in the bedroom, but persists.
writing humanity may
The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.
writing men doctors
A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature. John Taylor
writing way scripts
You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script. John Taylor Gatto
writing sunday opportunity
What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.' John Sentamu
writing men speak
Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak. John Selden
writing audience
You've got to write for your audience. John Ratzenberger
writing decision trying
I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling. John Ridley
writing ink use
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink. John Ray
writing essence becoming
Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer. John O'Hara
writing rejection one-day
You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction. James Lee Burke
writing two choices
You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something - why not write?
writing worry silence
If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you're no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don't hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won't survive.
writing littles might
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me.
writing home mail
You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.
writing crafts masters
Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master. James Johnson
writing men self
The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street. James Jones
writing rewards glory
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard. James J. Corbett
writing play voice
I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice. James Iha
writing rocks different
The music industry is not what it used to be. Being in a good band is great, and I've been lucky to be in great bands. I've done solo stuff, and that's been great. I also produce rock bands and I do co-writes, where I write with different singers in bands and songwriters.
writing effort risk
The important thing is not what we write but how we write, and in my opinion the modern writer must be an adventurer above all, willing to take every risk, and be prepared to founder in his effort if need be. In other words we must write dangerously James Joyce
writing simple use
If there is any difficulty in what I write, it is because of the material I use. The thought is always simple.
writing names childhood
What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
writing order perfect
I have the words already. What I am seeking is the perfect order of words in the sentence. You can see for yourself how many different ways they might be arranged.
writing tables rooms
No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
writing fantastic artifice
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.