Quotes about writing
writing self doe
All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say? Steven Saylor
writing world want
I would want to travel the world and write about it. To be a famous writer. Shantel VanSanten
writing hard-work kind
When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another. Sean O'Casey
writing men thinking
All men have inalienable rights to think freely, to talk freely, to write freely their own opinions and to counter or utter or write upon the opinions of others. L. Ron Hubbard
writing religion atheism
You don't get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion.
writing men tools
It has not been for nothing that the word has remained man's principal toy and tool: without the meanings and values it sustains, all man's other tools would be worthless. Lewis Mumford
writing unique mind
Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not a special, unique gift of human beings, marking us off from the rest of nature. Lewis Thomas
writing garden thinking
Although I usually think I know what I'm going to be writing about, what I'm going to say, most of the time it doesn't happen that way at all. At some point I get misled down a garden path, I get surprised by an idea that I hadn't anticipated getting, which is a little bit like being in a laboratory.
writing long important
The commas are the most useful and usable of all the stops. It is highly important to put them in place as you go along. If you try to come back after doing a paragraph and stick them in the various spots that tempt you you will discover that they tend to swarm like minnows into sorts of crevices whose existence you hadn't realized and before you know it the whole long sentence becomes immobilized and lashed up squirming in commas. Better to use them sparingly, and with affection, precisely when the need for each one arises, nicely, by itself.
writing lazy laziness
It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes. Leslie Charteris
writing lasts revenue
Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.
writing literature ifs
If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.
writing imagination genre
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination. Leslie Banks
writing men years
I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper. Leslie Fiedler
writing enemy gave-up
I gave up writing blurbs because you make one friend and 200 enemies.
writing air situation
When you're writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can't just be out of the air. Leslie Jones
writing class long
Armchair poverty tourism has been around as long as authors have written about class. As an author, I have struggled myself with the nuances of writing about poverty without reducing any community to a catalog of its difficulties. Leslie Jamison
writing mean people
When people ask what kind of nonfiction I write, I say 'all kinds,' but really I mean I don’t write any kind at all: I’m trying to dissolve the borders between memoir and journalism and criticism by weaving them together.
writing thinking topics
I've been thinking so much about writing as a gift to readers - and how newness of subject (place or topic or person) is one of the biggest gifts at our disposal.
writing government people
Our people still need support. Support us through writing your government officials. We are still on the verge of extinction, with continued injustices brought against us. Leonard Peltier
writing home should-have
At this writing I can't even shut my lower jaw because of inadequate health care. I can't chew my food, I have trouble walking...the list goes on. But more than anything I want to go home. If you follow the laws at the time of my conviction I should have been released already.
writing performing
Work controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life. Lemon Andersen
writing stories touch-me
No one touches me when I write my story, unless I hire you to or I allow you to.
writing way found
I store away my experiences and don't feel really happy until I've found a way to write about them. Len Deighton
writing years long
I had made a list of about ten things that I remembered from the original 'Total Recall' before I went back and watched. It had been about twenty years. I wanted to write it out before I watched it again. And I felt if those things stayed with me long enough, those are the things that I wanted to highlight. Len Wiseman
writing thinking
We know what we are doing by now.We seem to make an album every 18 months or so and I think every band should do that. We're not writing "Sgt. Pepper" every time; we are writing straight ahead rock n' roll. Lemmy Kilmister
writing matter buying
A writer writes. Period. No matter if someone is buying your work or not. Len Wein
writing wanted audience
I've always been the audience that I wanted to reach, so I write for myself.
writing views way
I'm still a fanboy geek. I always will be. In many ways, if my work still resonates with the audience, it's because I'm still writing from the point of view of the fan, so I'm geeked out constantly.
writing editors differences
When I'm my own editor, there's very little difference between the first draft and the final. I write what feels right to begin with. I rarely make any major changes.
writing feelings three
The good writer, the great writer, has what I have called the three S's: the power to see, to sense, and to say. That is, he is perceptive, he is feeling, and he has the power to express in language what he observes and reacts to. Lawrence Clark Powell
writing doe language
This is the gift all writers seek-to write language that incandesces yet does not melt.
writing thinking expectations
We all think were going to be great and we feel a little bit robbed when our expectation aren't met, but sometimes our expectations sell us short. Sometimes the expected simply pales in comparison to the Write to be understood, speak to be heard, read to grow.