Quotes about writing
writing editing whales
Save the gerund and screw the whale. Tom Stoppard
writing ideas two
Poetical feelings are a peril to scholarship. There are always poetical people ready to protest that a corrupt line is exquisite. Exquisite to whom? The Romans were foreigners writing for foreigners two millenniums ago; and for people whose gods we find quaint, whose savagery we abominate, whose private habits we don't like to talk about, but whose idea of what is exquisite is, we flatter ourselves, mysteriously identical to ours.
writing one-love social
I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.
writing long half
I write scenes - often quite long scenes - mainly because I still get seduced into writing six lines where one and a half will do.
writing play way
I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.
writing way fiction
I write fiction because it's a way of making statements I can disown.
writing library needs
I don't write at the library, because I smoke when I work or would like the possibility of a smoke. Also, I need to be at my own desk.
writing wish way
I wish I could write lyrical poems, but I just write the way they come. Tom Paulin
writing brain relax
There's always a part of my brain saying: 'Stop getting comfortable. Don't relax.' Because I find it difficult to write when I'm happy. I have to go out there and get battered up and bruised to write anything. I have to feel something. Tom Odell
writing perfect people
I'm not sure that it's possible to write a novel about people who don't transgress or stumble, people who don't surprise themselves with the things they do, people who can explain all their actions with perfect logical consistency. At least it's not possible for me to write that sort of novel. Tom Perrotta
writing expression levels
Nothing beats novel writing because it's complete expression of you. You just control everything. Not even a movie director has that level of control.
writing years two
The interesting part about the writing process is that you can never see all the way to the end, not if something is happening over the course of a year and a half, or two years.
writing talking ideas
I don't really like to just sit down at a computer and write because that tends to be a little forced. Sometimes the funniest ideas just happen in the moment, when you're talking to people, or you notice something. Tom Green
writing doing-you bunch
I've always got a whole bunch of things in the works. That's sort of the nature of the business. Even when you're doing something you love doing, you have to be plotting and scheming and writing and preparing for what you're going to do when that's finished.
writing poetry matter
They say poets write mostly for themselves; if anyone else likes it, well and good, if not, it doesn't matter; certainly, not to me. Tom Glazer
writing character suspense
Suspense is achieved by information control: What you know. What the reader knows. What the characters know. Tom Clancy
writing people way
Speak your dialogue out loud. If it sounds like the way people talk, then write it down.
writing golf play
Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.
writing hard-work kissing
You learn to write the same way you learn to play golf... You do it, and keep doing it until you get it right. A lot of people think something mystical happens to you, that maybe the muse kisses you on the ear. But writing isn’t divinely inspired – it’s hard work.
writing simple trying
I do not over-intellectualize the production process. I try to keep it simple: Tell the damned story.
writing waiting pieces
I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That was unusual. Most newspapers wait until I've written at least one piece for them before firing me. Toby Young
writing years political
I expect that in 40 years' time I'll be writing political tomes and working for an organisation like Oxfam.
writing sometimes used
I used to write things out beforehand. But sometimes it backfires Todd Barry
writing years cds
I want to release another CD this year, finish writing a screenplay, and make another short film
writing needs erase
I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase
writing joy rewards
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off. Tobias Wolff
writing information teach
You don't teach information in a writing workshop.
writing cost mythology
Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say.
writing doe littles
But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.
writing self years
In writing you work toward a result you won't see for years, and can't be sure you'll ever see. It takes stamina and self-mastery and faith. It demands those things of you, then gives them back with a little extra, a surprise to keep you coming. It toughens you and clears your head. I could feel it happening. I was saving my life with every word I wrote, and I knew it.
writing thinking people
There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.
writing enemy life-is
Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.
writing thinking moments
I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print Tina Brown