Quotes about writing
writing long littles
I discovered that my own little postage stamp of native soil was worth writing about and that I would never live long enough to exhaust it. William Faulkner
writing thinking people
I don't think anybody can teach anybody anything. I think that you learn it, but the young writer that is as I say demon-driven and wants to learn and has got to write, he don't know why, he will learn from almost any source that he finds. He will learn from older people who are not writers, he will learn from writers, but he learns it -- you can't teach it.
writing ideas fiction
With me, a story usually begins with a single idea or mental picture. The writing of the story is simply a matter of working up to that moment, to explain why it happened or what caused it to follow.
writing men talking
'I never feel the need to discuss my work with anyone. No, I am too busy writing it. It has got to please me and if it does I don't need to talk about it. If it doesn't please me, talking about it won't improve it, since the only thing to improve it is to work on it some more. I am not a literary man but only a writer. I don't get any pleasure from talking shop.
writing swimming men
Nothing can injure a man's writing if he's a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there's not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool.
writing men long
I imagine as long as people will continue to read novels, people will continue to write them, or vice versa; unless of course the pictorial magazines and comic strips finally atrophy man's capacity to read, and literature really is on its way back to the picture writing in the Neanderthal cave.
writing famous-writers writers-reading
Read, read read. Read everything.
writing darling
In writing, you must kill all your darlings.
writing dostoyevsky written
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
writing fiction telling-the-truth
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
writing men thinking
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got it or not.
writing artist editors
The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
writing ideas simplicity
When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.
writing heart agony
the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
writing men firsts
No man can write who is not first a humanitarian
writing trying doe
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
writing two imagination
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
writing artist solitude
The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.
writing
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
writing epic study
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
writing doubt owing
The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings. Willard Van Orman Quine
writing computer surprise
This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended. Wietse Venema
writing interesting challenges
Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.
writing safe difficult
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.
writing giving godlike
What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you. Wilbur Smith
writing color play
[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything. Whoopi Goldberg
writing keys lines
I sometimes have to write for a while before I figure it out, pretend that I know what I'm doing, sort of like ad-libbing on stage until you remember your line - you hope you sound convincing to the audience. The key is to have enough material, enough threads, so that there's something that can be satisfyingly drawn to a conclusion. Said Sayrafiezadeh
writing editing simplicity
There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity. Saint Francis de Sales
writing
Stand-up is really personal. It's not like somebody else is writing the script and you have to do what they write. Tracy Morgan
writing sides bigs
There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business. Tori Amos
writing important territory
The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes. Van Wyck Brooks
writing airports paper
So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport. Upamanyu Chatterjee
writing interesting care
And I haven't read a lot of blogs but if someone writes about what they care about I'm sure it's interesting. Uma Thurman