Quotes about writing
writing heart cities
For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all the cities of the world. In the particular is contained the universal. James Joyce
writing way arguing
I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.
writing interest pleasant
It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing James Schuyler
writing needed
One tends to write beyond what's needed
writing perfect sun
Writing is like washing windows in the sun. With every attempt to perfect clarity, you make a new smear. James Richardson
writing lines fantasy
Tyranny and fantasy both like to write everyone else's lines.
writing trying hearing
When I am trying to write I turn on music so I can hear what is keeping me from hearing.
writing certain ifs
I like to write about certain things that if they are not written about are not going to exist. James Salter
writing novel great-things
I always knew writing a novel was a great thing.
writing who-i-am years
But that isn't my life. I have said many times I don't want to be considered one who once flew fighters. That's not who I am. I devoted the subsequent 50 years - more - to writing.
writing internet flowering
On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.
writing ideas people
You can write about other people and their ideas and life without having lived it, but even your perception of that is going to be colored by what you know and what you experience. And this is undeniable.
writing views trying
I write down portions, maybe fragments, and perhaps an imperfect view of what Im hoping to write. Out of that, I keep trying to find exactly what I want.
writing ideas effort
My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don’t.
writing decided
In 1957, I decided: write or perish.
writing opportunity joy
The whole joy of writing comes from the opportunity to go over it and make it good, one way or another.
writing impulse ultimate
What is the ultimate impulse to write? Because all this is going to vanish.
writing waiting right-time
If one waits for the right time to come before writing, the right time never comes. James Russell Lowell
writing night two
Life is a sheet of paper white / Whereon each one of us may write / His word or two, and then comes night.
writing land ideas
I know my political ideas affect what I write, but I've tried to follow the facts wherever they land. Every topic I've written about begins as a question. How do police departments behave? Why do bureaucracies function the way they do? What moral intuitions do people have? How do courts make their decisions? What do blacks want from the political system? I can honestly say I didn't know the answers to those questions when I began looking into them. James Q. Wilson
writing army men
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform... therefore a whole army is afraid of one man. James Harrington
writing unique inheritance
The writer's genetic inheritance and her or his experiences shape the writer into a unique individual, and it is this uniqueness that is the writer's only stuff for sale. James Gunn
writing play people
You should just write the movie based on people you actually know and then just see who wants to play it. Cast the net. James Gray
writing people knows
In general, markets know more than the people who write about them. James Grant
writing order years
I've not been a prolific poet, and it always seemed to me to be a bad idea to feel that you had to produce in order to get... credits. Production of a collection of poems every three years or every five years, or whatever, looks good, on paper. But it might not be good; it might be writing on a kind of automatic pilot. James Fenton
writing faces problem
One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry.
writing iowa creative
Some of my educated Filipino friends were aspiring poets, but their aspirations were all in the direction of the United States. They had no desire to learn from the bardic tradition that continued in the barrios. Their ideal would have been to write something that would get them to Iowa, where they would study creative writing.
writing reputation publishers
Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing. Laurence J. Peter
writing next firsts
I write the first sentence and trust in God for the next. Laurence Sterne
writing firsts almighty-god
I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.
writing thinking talking
Writing, when properly managed, (as you may be sure I think mine is) is but a different name for conversation.
writing
I had been writing professionally since 1988 Laura Hillenbrand
writing phones information
Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process.