Quotes about writing
writing issues people
Of course, sometimes when you write personally, you are also writing about society, obliquely reflecting topical issues, but not in a way that people would expect you to or in the way that someone trying to make a point would. Suzanne Vega
writing form feels
I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.
writing way direct
Writing is always personal in some way but not always in a direct way.
writing thinking people
I guess I think I'm writing for people who are smarter than I am, because then I'll be doing something that's worth their time. I'd be very afraid to write from a position where I consciously thought I was smarter than most of my readers. Susan Sontag
writing would-be truth-is
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is.
writing great-writers stills
A great writer has all 4 - but you can still be a good writer with only 1 and 2.
writing interesting might
Why wouldn't you write to escape yourself as much as you might write to express yourself? It's far more interesting to write about others.
writing trying stories
The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is one thing and the solution something else. The problem, properly understood = the solution. Instead of trying to hide or efface what limits the story, capitalize on that very limitation. State it, rail against it.
writing typewriters junk
If I thought that what I'm doing when I write is expressing myself, I'd junk the typewriter. Writing is a much more complicated activity that that.
writing mysterious activity
Writing is a mysterious activity.
writing because-i-can i-can
...what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.
writing self bigger
My urge to write is an urge not to self-expressionism but to self-transcendence. My work is both bigger and smaller than I am.
writing thinking stamina
Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.
writing thinking talking
I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think.
writing lakes decision
It's beginnings that are hard. I always begin with a great sense of dread and trepidation. Nietzsche says that the decision to start writing is like leaping into a cold lake.
writing giving way
Writing is finally a series of permissions you give yourself to be expressive in certain ways. To leap. To fly. To fail.
writing tasks slavery
To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master.
writing doors pieces
Writing is a little door. Some fantasies, like big pieces of furniture, won’t come through.
writing literature audience
I don't write because there's an audience. I write because there is literature.
writing talking touching
Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.
writing alive firsts
I don't write easily or rapidly. My first draft usually has only a few elements worth keeping. I have to find what those are and build from them and throw out what doesn't work, or what simply is not alive.
writing agony passionate
I am profoundly uncertain how to write. I know what I love and what I like, because it's a direct passionate response. But when I write, I'm very uncertain whether it's good enough. That is, of course, the writer's agony.
writing ideas
My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.
writing simple dare
Dare to ask, "Where is my novel too simple?" Scott Westerfeld
writing decision doe
Be careful that what you write does not offend anybody or cause problems within the company. The safest approach is to remove all useful information. Scott Adams
writing thinking easy
If you think it's easy to write jokes about fried calamari, you've probably never tried.
writing america people
Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.
writing things-in-life people
Few things in life are less efficient than a group of people trying to write a sentence. The advantage of this method is that you end up with something for which you will not be personally blamed.
writing data doubt
Every credible scientist on earth says your products harm the environment. I recommend paying weasels to write articles casting doubt on the data. Then eat the wrong kind of foods and hope you die before the earth does.
writing thinking forever
I don't love it. I write better than I used to write, I think better than I used to think, and I've got enough experience to balance things up. But I don't like the physical side of getting older and I don't like forgetting things. If I had a choice, I'd take Peter Pan pills and stay young forever. Ray Martin
writing want
I want to write music that will outlive me. Ray LaMontagne
writing order personality
I would like to do a lot more of it, I feel comfortable with it and basically it's all in the writing. I'm not a personality type actor, I need a good script in order to be funny, but it's definitely something that I like doing. Ray Liotta
writing eight two
If after two weeks you still can't write your middle-eight, the best course of action is to see a psychiatrist Ray Davies