Quotes about writing
writing weekend might
I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days. Tom Hodgkinson
writing garden things-in-life
If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated. That's because we lost contact with the important things in life like work that you enjoy, or the garden, nature, your family and friends.
writing interesting creative
What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn. Toni Morrison
writing white able
When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me.
writing black-and-white men
...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It's not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don't write very differently from white men.
writing scared knows
Write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.
writing thinking discovery
If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.
writing light order
I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.
writing self civilization
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
writing done world
Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.
writing house type
I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
writing thinking vision
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
writing waiting trying
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.
writing giving said
One has to work very carefully with what is in between the words. What is not said. Which is measure, which is rhythm and so on. So, it is what you don't write that frequently gives what you do write its power.
writing people want
People say to write about what you know. I'm here to tell you, no one wants to read that, cos you don't know anything. So write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.
writing ideas answers
I always start out with an idea, even a boring idea, that becomes a question I don't have answers to.
writing firsts novel
I wrote my first novel because I wanted to read it.
writing practice people
For me, practice isn't doing scales but doing things like writing, jamming with other people, or playing gigs. Tommy Bolin
writing opportunity play
When I got to LA and was with the James Gang, I got the opportunity to write a lot, to play in front of large audiences, make some money.
writing people radio
I always thought I was commercial. I always thought I was writing hit singles. These days, whatever's on the radio is considered commercial. People like what's on the radio, whatever it is. Tom Verlaine
writing knows
You know, there is something I'm looking for when I'm writing. But I couldn't tell you what that is.
writing home class
Sinclair Lewis was asked one time to give a talk to class of students about writing. When he got there he asked the class, Do you people want to be writers?and they all said yes. Then Lewis said, Why the hell aren't you at home writing? Tom T. Hall
writing
I write constantly about everything. Tom Sturridge
writing frustration small-numbers
I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did. Tom Stoppard
writing artist oxygen
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
writing editing good-things
Good things, when short, are twice as good.
writing bites
can only write about what bites you.
writing play cooking
I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.
writing flow facts
Fantasy flows in where fact leaves a vacuum.
writing play way
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and rebut the refutation.
writing thinking play
For a long time I managed to think two things simultaneously, that I am actually a good playwright, and that the next time I write a play I will be revealed as someone who is no good at all.
writing play preparation
My life feels, week to week, incomplete to the level of being pointless if I am not in preparation for the next play or, ideally, into it.
writing intellectual
I write out of my intellectual experience.