Quotes about writing
writing long ordinary
I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous. Saul Bellow
writing trying looks
The way I sometimes approach my work, when I look at a script for the first time, is to identify what the archetypes are and what the writing is trying to do in that context. Sarah Gadon
writing order mind
Thoroughly to unfold the labyrinths of the human mind is an arduous task.... In order to dive into those recesses and lay them open to the reader in a striking and intelligible manner, 'tis necessary to assume a certain freedom in writing, not strictly perhaps within the limits prescribed by rules. Sarah Fielding
writing want awful
Writing a novel is like childbirth: once you realize how awful it really is, you never want to do it again. Sarah Dessen
writing wrapping-paper notes
I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.
writing school trying
I love YA, and it's been a really good fit for me. But at some point, I would like to try something else: a collection of short stories, or writing about something other than high school. A lot has happened to me since I was eighteen.
writing thinking worry
I used to worry I was entirely uninteresting, but the truth is I think if my life was more exciting I'd never have any time to write.
writing keys found
I've found in my own life that if my writing isn't going well, not much else will. It is the one constant, the key to everything else.
writing thinking historical
I think I'm too lazy a writer to do something like historical fiction. You have to do so much research. I just write what I know.
writing next knows
I never really know what I'm going to write next until it comes to me. So we'll just have to see what happens.
writing topics picks
Some writers pick a topic and write around that, but I like to include it all.
writing thinking people
I think I'm way too much of a control freak to co-author anything with anyone. I have a hard enough time writing with myself! I admire people that can do it, but it's not for me.
writing school emotional
I was actually pretty miserable in high school. I couldn't wait for it to be over. And when it finally was, I remember sitting at graduation with all these classmates getting nostalgic and emotional already and all I could think was, "Get me out of here. I never want to see you people again." So it's ironic that I spend half my day putting myself back there by choice [while writing].
writing paper
You can only write by putting words on a paper one at a time. Sandra Brown
writing roles chance
I made straight A's and never got into any trouble, and I still impose those standards on myself. So writing is my chance to escape and become the sleaziest, scummiest role.
writing careers live-theatre
I came to write after several mini careers. I did live theatre, managed a cosmetics store and was a local television personality.
writing issues abortion
The abortion cases produced an enormous amount of mail to my chambers, vastly more than to the other chambers, I am sure. I sometimes thought there wasn't a woman in the United States who didn't write me a letter on one side or the other of that issue. Sandra Day O'Connor
writing meditation calm
That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation. Sandra Cisneros
writing today deaf
You know, we should have cards like the deaf have. "Can't talk, I'm writing today."
writing lovers essays
I want to write an essay called "Fear of Mexico," because I always feel like Mexico's this lover that never writes to me.
writing thinking-about-you judging
Something I always tell students is, when you're writing something, you want to write the first draft and you want it to come out easily in the beginning. If you're afraid to say what you really have to say, you stammer. You're judging yourself, you know, thinking about your listener. You're not thinking about what you're saying. And that same thing happens when you write.
writing
My Spanish is a daughter's Spanish. I write, but my Spanish really is very limited.
writing proud sometimes
You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what they don't understand - and I like to tell this to writers - is that writing is like fishing. It's just like fishing. If you don't fish that often, you're not going to catch that many fish.
writing different filmmaker
The comments you'll get from a filmmaker about your performance are going to be very different. My writing workshop is about mixing it up, cross-pollinating, not only in genres but in occupations.
writing giving people
I tell people to write the stories that you're afraid to talk about, the stories you wish you'd forget, because those have the most power. Those are the ones that have the most strength when you give them as a testimony.
writing discipline mind
To say that I have an undisciplined mind would not be incorrect overall, but it's a little off the mark because I have great discipline when I write - but only for about ten minutes. Roseanne Barr
writing should wells
And, you know, I liked writing humor. Well, I should say, I wanted to write seriously, but it kept turning funny.
writing television easier
I always felt that it was easier to take a funny person and teach them to write television than to take somebody who was a television writer and make them funny.
writing order able
In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.
writing tv-shows tvs
I'm much more used to the TV shows, which are demanding to write and perform but very fulfilling. Rory Bremner
writing way knows
There are some things around us that are not actually useful. I didn't know that before. It's very new for me to understand. That became my way of writing: I can see also the new myself. Rokia Traore
writing guitar play
I used to play guitar for myself and write lyrics and listen to different styles of music.
writing voice destruction
Writing is the destruction of every voice, of every point of origin. Roland Barthes