Quotes about writing
writing thinking littles
I think a little menace is fine to have in a story. For one thing, it's good for the circulation. Raymond Carver
writing world very-good
Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.
writing expression talking
It's akin to style, what I'm talking about, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There's plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to that way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.
writing admire wells
You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.
writing literature crafts
There are significant moments in everyone's day that can make literature. That's what you ought to write about.
writing insightful stories
It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things—a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring—with immense, even startling power.
writing heart character
If we're lucky, writer and reader alike, we'll finish the last line or two of a short story and then just sit for a minute, quietly. Ideally, we'll ponder what we've just written or read; maybe our hearts or intellects will have been moved off the peg just a little from where they were before. Our body temperature will have gone up, or down, by a degree. Then, breathing evenly and steadily once more, we'll collect ourselves, writers and readers alike, get up, "created of warm blood and nerves" as a Chekhov character puts it, and go on to the next thing: Life. Always life.
writing
That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.
writing secret knows
Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?
writing thinking people
For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.
writing thinking brave
You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.
writing
I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it. Sammy Hagar
writing together pieces
I wasn't writing the music. Ed would write a piece of music. I'd listen to it and come up with a melody and then we would arrange it. We'd put it together and I would write lyrics to my melodies.
writing law order
Write me up for 125, poster my face wanted dead or alive. Take my license all that jive, I can't drive 55.
writing care stuff
Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care, I just do comedy. T. J. Miller
writing acting comedy
There's sketch, improv, writing, acting, music, and badminton. Those are the seven forms of comedy.
writing
I like writing about friends. Julie Garwood
writing faces comfort
Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face. Joy Williams
writing wings reader
The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness — those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.
writing
One writes to find words' meanings.
writing process writing-process
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.
writing grace doe
Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.
writing care these-days
It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.
writing dark light
A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.
writing play want
It seemed like the right time. You reach a point when you say to yourself, ‘Do I want to keep doing this?’ There are other things on my plate I want to do — I’ve been writing a play, I’ve been neglecting my standup. Joy Behar
writing men cricket
I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man. Joseph O'Neill
writing want madness
If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.
writing parasites critics
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write. Joseph Priestley
writing self imagination
For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable. Joyce Carol Oates
writing light people
When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation. Justin Cronin
writing iowa fiction
I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.
writing careers persons
Choosing writing as a career, just by itself, is a measure of not being a calculating person.
writing passion long
Music is my passion so I feel like I'll be doing this for a long time and God forbid if anything happens I'll still write music. So, I could write music for other people. I see myself making music for a very long time. Justin Bieber