Quotes about writing
writing people waiting
Write and people will come to read. Write and people will heed to your words and share them with others. Not all may relate, but wait, and those that were meant to see it eventually will find it, for truth waits to be found. It searches for no one. Suzy Kassem
writing play despair
The writing of Topdog was a great gift. I feel the play came to me because I realized that my circumstances, while causing me despair and heartbreak, also held great possibility, if only I could see it. Suzan-Lori Parks
writing thinking mirrors
Some people think I am an issue-oriented writer, but I've never said to myself, I'm gong to write about such-and-such an issue - that would make for incredibly boring writing, at least to my taste. Creating someone I don't know and her made-up world shows us more about who we are - is actually a better mirror - than if I were to parade in front of you an instantly recognizable person in an instantly recognizable situation. I'm not saying, Let's make it all abstract and weird and difficult and thereby you will know more about yourself. My process is much more organic than that.
writing successful men
The most important rules that I ever adopted to help me in achieving my goals were those I learned from a very successful man who taught me to first write down the goal, and then to never leave the site of setting a goal without first taking some form of positive action toward its attainment. Tony Robbins
writing thinking smooth
I think what's really hard is making sense and making what you write clear and smooth-flowing. Roy Blount, Jr.
writing drug statistics
The last time somebody said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor', I replied, 'They used to say the same thing about drugs'.
writing easy ads
Writing good ads is easy when you have something to say. Roy H. Williams
writing albums release
I write for myself; I release the albums to connect with everyone else. Ron Pope
writing taught regions
Faulkner came from my region and taught me how you could write about a place. Ron Rash
writing different diaries
I love learning about different dialects and I own all sorts of regional and time-period slang dictionaries. I often browse through relevant ones while writing a story. I also read a lot of diaries and oral histories.
writing thinking long
I think writing a poem is like being a greyhound. Writing a novel is like being a mule. You go up one long row, then down another, and try not to look up too often to see how far you still have to go.
writing years agents
After a while the business end of writing takes too much of the writing time. Better to pay someone ten percent and find that you're still more than ten percent ahead in the end. Which is true. My present agent says that he always feels that a good agent during the course of a year should earn back for his client at least the ten percent he takes by way of commission, so the client's really nothing out. And what he should ideally do is make him more money than the ten percent. Roger Zelazny
writing greatness design
I don't know that I ever wanted greatness, on its own. It seems rather like wanting to be an engineer, rather than wanting to design something--or wanting to be a writer, rather than wanting to write. It should be a by-product, not a thing in itself. Otherwise, it's just an ego trip.
writing stories bones
My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene.
writing typewriters trying
I try to sit down at the typewriter four times a day, even if it's only five minutes, and write three sentences.
writing character mean
I see myself as a novelist, period. I mean, the material I work with is what is classified as science fiction and fantasy, and I really don't think about these things when I'm writing. I'm just thinking about telling a story and developing my characters.
writing years body
Are not couturiers the poets who, from year to year, from strophe to strophe, write the anthem of the feminine body? Roland Barthes
writing trying gestures
Take the gesture, the action of writing. I have an almost obsessive relation to writing instruments. I often switch from one pen to another just for the pleasure of it. I try out new ones. I have far too many pens - I don't know what to do with all of them! And yet, as soon as I see a new one, I start craving it. I cannot keep myself from buying them.
writing
The author enters into his own death, writing begins.
writing long different
Writers like to write, and writing in different forms - short, long, bite-sized, done on the fly, done with painstaking attention - all interest me. Susan Orlean
writing magazines pieces
I love writing traditional magazine pieces, and especially their breadth of reporting and the deliberateness of the writing.
writing long dresses
I once had a boyfriend who couldn't write unless he was wearing a necktie and a dress shirt, which I thought was really weird, because this was a long time ago, and no one I knew ever wore dress shirts, let alone neckties; it was like he was a grown-up reenacter or something.
writing pages
Most writing doesn’t take place on the page; it takes place in your head.
writing stories enough
I really believed that anything at all was worth writing about if you cared about it enough, and that the best and only necessary justification for writing any particular story was that I cared about it.
writing people letters
I'm always mystified by the day-to-day workings of entities like Twitter that provide framework but not content, but I suppose it could be compared to the U.S. Postal Service, which manages to keep a lot of people employed doing lots of stuff other than writing letters.
writing mastery want
There's a marvelous sense of mastery that comes with writing a sentence that sounds exactly as you want it to.
writing simply-love
You have to simply love writing, and you have to remind yourself often that you love it.
writing people chicago
Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write. Susan Glaspell
writing made newspapers
I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.
writing order break-through
Each time I write, each time the authentic words break through, I am changed. The older order that I was collapses and dies. I lose control. I do not know exactly what words will appear on the page. I follow language. I follow the sound of the words, and I am surprised and transformed by what I record. Susan Griffin
writing men want
I write about the men you want to read about but don't necessarily want to be married to. Susan Elizabeth Phillips
writing fool hard
Writing is hard for everybody except fools.
writing mail illusion
E-mail creates the illusion that you're writing. You're not.