Quotes about writing
writing pride past
If you write, fix pipes, grade papers, lay bricks or drive a taxi - do it with a sense of pride. And do it the best you know how. Be cognizant and sympathetic to the guy alongside, because he wants a place in the sun, too. And always...always look past his color, his creed, his religion and the shape of his ears. Look for the whole person. Judge him as the whole person. Rod Serling
writing artist soul
I've been influenced heavily by great soul artists. I see myself as a soul singer. I sing from my soul - I write from my soul. Robin Thicke
writing world want
Write what you want to read. The person you know best in this world is you. Listen to yourself. If you are excited by what you are writing, you have a much better chance of putting that excitement over to a reader. Robin McKinley
writing rejection stories
The story is always better than your ability to write it.
writing thinking justice
The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you've done a story justice, you're in the wrong business.
writing thinking want-something
I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you. Robert Shaw
writing thinking luck
I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck. Robert Sheckley
writing three stories
I don't finish every story, but I probably write and send out three out of five of them.
writing three
Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more. Robert Silverberg
writing genius may
We may be sure that a genius like Mozart, were he born today, would write concertos like Chopin and not like Mozart. Robert Schumann
writing fate hands
An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, that I can hardly use them.
writing symphony impossible
My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.
writing paper laptops
I write with a pen and paper. Never on a laptop. Robert Smith
writing awkward doe
I know that if I have been working on one paragraph and I have written it three times, it goes in the bin. Unless it comes straight out, it is wrong, it is awkward, it does not fit. Robert Rankin
writing ideas rocks
I'd like to write a big rock anthem again. I just need to listen to Korn, and then I might get the idea of how to do it. Robert Plant
writing feels shows
I only like to write shows that I feel like no one has seen before. Robert Lopez
writing dull dies
History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes. Robert Lowell
writing learning winning
A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one. Robert M. Hutchins
writing college acting
When I graduated college I needed to make money while I was pursuing acting, so I read screenplays and made a living writing coverage on them for studios. Sasha Alexander
writing doctors stories
I don't know if you've ever tried writing a Doctor Who story, but it's a lot more difficult than it initially appears, especially if you've got more than one assistant. Sarah Sutton
writing doe fiction
I have to do more close research and fact checking for the science fiction. This is not however to say that writing good fantasy does not involve doing good research. Sarah Zettel
writing together telling-stories
As far as the writing goes, I started telling stories as soon as I could talk, and started writing them down as soon as I could string words together.
writing moon race
I did not want to write a story about the invasion of Earth, so I had to create a race capable of living nearby, which meant to either on the Moon, on Mars, or on Venus. I picked Venus.
writing mad trying
Read like mad. But try to do it analytically - which can be hard, because the better and more compelling a novel is, the less conscious you will be of its devices. It's worth trying to figure those devices out, however: they might come in useful in your own work. Sarah Waters
writing i-can can-do
All I can do is write about whatever grabs me.
writing needs relief
Even writers need relief from words. Sarah Vowell
writing dedication memorial
I discovered that Robert Todd Lincoln was there for each of the first three assassinations. I wanted to write about the Lincoln Memorial, so when I found out he had attended its dedication, that helped focus it further.
writing heaven stranger
No one I know actually reads what I write, so thank heavens for you strangers.
writing thinking very-romantic
It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live Sarah McLachlan
writing people singing
And music has always been incredibly cathartic for me, whether it's writing my own stuff or singing other people's music; it's very freeing.
writing hard-times able
Things that I have a hard time being able to fully grasp, sometimes writing the poem helps me work through it. Or I get to the end of the poem and I still haven't figured anything out, but at least I have a new poem out of it. Sarah Kay
writing thinking always-trying
I write about love and family a lot, because I'm always trying to figure those things out. At different points in my life, just when I think I've finished writing about it, the dynamics shift, and then I have a whole new set of questions and worries and misunderstandings to wrestle with.
writing creativity people
For some reason there's this myth that creativity - [especially] in terms of creative writing - is a gift you either have, or you don't. So when people first start writing, if they write something that's not very good, or if they try and it's difficult, they go, "Oh, I guess I don't have it." That doesn't seem very fair, you have to try and you have to work at it. If we get scared of one bad poem and quit, that's not doing anybody any good.