Quotes about writing
writing members polite
If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered. Stephen King
writing two creating
I like to write short stories more because I never met a writer who wasn't lazy. And a short story is, by its very definition, short. It is something that generally you can turn out in a week to two weeks depending on how well it goes for you. But, at the same time, it gives the same satisfaction of creating a complete world.
writing commandments
Read a lot, write a lot is the great commandment.
writing secret shadow
I see things, that's all. Write enough stories and every shadow on the floor looks like a footprint; every line in the dirt like a secret message.
writing horror-stories guy
I have always felt a little bit uncomfortable with question [why I'm write these stories]. It's not a question that you would ask a guy that writes detective stories or the guy that writes mystery stories, or westerns, or whatever. But it is asked of the writer of horror stories because it seems that there is something nasty about our love for horror stories, or boogies, ghosts and goblins, demons and devils.
writing thinking ideas
There are all sorts of theories and ideas about what constitutes a good opening line. It's tricky thing, and tough to talk about because I don't think conceptually while I work on a first draft -- I just write. To get scientific about it is a little like trying to catch moonbeams in a jar. But there's one thing I'm sure about. An opening line should invite the reader to begin the story. It should say: Listen. Come in here. You want to know about this.
writing thinking way
Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.
writing scare losing
What really scares me is Alzheimer's or premature senility, losing that ability to read and enjoy and to write. And you do it, and some days maybe aren't so good, and then some days, you really catch a wave, and it's as good as it ever was.
writing mind left-alone
The unconscious mind writes poetry if it's left alone.
writing thinking pneumonia
I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion. Stephen Hawking
writing ideas blenders
When you can't draw chameleons and you can't draw blenders, it's a bad idea to write strips where chameleons become blenders. Stephan Pastis
writing space littles
You can write a little and can draw a little, but there's necessarily a limitation on both in a comic strip, since it appears in such a tiny space.
writing thinking people
A stand-up comedian faces the audiences and gets their immediate feedback. I hide behind the comic strip, and unless people write to me, I dont know what they think.
writing seven-months schedules
Sticking to my schedule, Ive gotten over seven months ahead, which allowed me to write a Pearls Before Swine movie script for the big screen.
writing hands drawing
The writing is done on the computer, and the drawing is done by hand. I write, write, write, then I hit the illustration.
writing ties together
My music is so often like a lullaby I write to myself to make sense of things I can't tie together, or things I've lost, or things I'll never have. Stephan Jenkins
writing people trying
It's immoral that people make money out of writing crap, but I try not to obsess about it. I don't want to spend my life being angry. Stella McCartney
writing clear
I see but one rule: to be clear. Stendhal
writing soul violin
A novel is like a bow, and the violin that produces the sound is the reader's soul.
writing rope ends
I would never write about anyone who is not at the end of his rope. Stanley Elkin
writing exercise rocks
Writing is an exercise in sculpture, chipping away at the rock until you find the nose.
writing thinking want
Now the writing in the head, I definitely do every day, thinking about how I want to phrase something or how I'd like to rephrase something I've already written. Stanley Crouch
writing firsts immortality
The first condition of immortality is death. Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
writing thinking stupidity
Stupidity is no excuse of not thinking.
writing lifetime easy
It isn't easy to live after death. It takes a lifetime.
writing order wings
Some people drop their wings in order to grow a hump
writing exit entrances
The exit is usually where the entrance was.
writing fire imagination
Every bush can burn if you fire it with your imagination.
writing men genius
A man who is a genius and doesn't know it, probably isn't.
writing advice ironic
Advice to writers: Sometimes you just have to stop writing. Even before you begin.
writing genius talent
The moment of recognizing your own lack of talent is a flash of genius.
writing fighting thinking
Every stink that fights the ventilator thinks it is Don Quixote. Stanislaw Lem
writing media phones
The truth is I've been doing Kickstarter before there was Kickstarter; there was no Internet. Social Media was writing letters, making phone calls, beating the bushes. Spike Lee