Quotes about writing
writing practice crafts
Talent is required, but much of writing is a matter of craft, which develops with time, attention, patience and practice, like playing an instrument or learning to dance. Susan Wiggs
writing men thinking
It's a long way from not having enough serotonin to thinking the world is "stale, flat and unprofitable"; even further to writing a play about a man driven by that thought. Susanna Kaysen
writing frustration rats
Most rats read. Our frustration is, we cannot hold a pen to write. Suzanne Collins
writing character thinking
All the writing elements are the same. You need to tell a good story... You've got good characters... People think there's some dramatic difference between writing 'Little Bear' and the 'Hunger Games,' and as a writer, for me, there isn't.
writing years president
I met this woman who was a hundred, this housekeeper, a hundred years old. I interviewed her. She just told me about her whole life. She's like, 'I can't read, I can't write; I can tell you who I was working for, and I can tell you the year, but who was president? Tate Taylor
writing europe culture
I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture. Taslima Nasrin
writing gigs projects
Every time I'm not on a project, I'm writing or in the studio or doing gigs DJing. Taryn Manning
writing thinking albums
I don't think I'd ever make an album of just covers because I love writing my own music. Taylor Swift
writing hotel
I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.
writing goal people
One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.
writing kids men
I would read the Shel Silverstein poems, Dr. Seuss, and I noticed early on that poetry was something that just stuck in my head and I was replaying those rhymes and try to think of my own. In English, the only thing I wanted to do was poetry and all the other kids were like, "Oh, man. We have to write poems again?" and I would have a three-page long poem. I won a national poetry contest when I was in fourth grade for a poem called "Monster In My Closet.
writing artist being-an-artist
The words. I love words. I love to write. Being an artist is what I love.
writing together happened
Writing 'We Are Never Getting Back Together' was one of the most hilarious experiences I have ever had in the studio because it just happened so naturally.
writing water oath
I write a woman's oaths in water. Sophocles
writing income firsts
I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed. Steve Toltz
writing world fantasy
The best I do, if I'm just playing around and riffing in a fantasy world, and then I'll write something down. Hopefully I write it down. Stephen Malkmus
writing stuff desperate
We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff.
writing firsts wells
To write well it is first necessary to have something to say. Stephen Leacock
writing paper down-and
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.
writing ideas simplicity
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
writing bathroom ifs
When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off. Stephen King
writing telepathy
What is writing? Writing is telepathy.
writing stories
When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.
writing details description
For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.
writing character thinking
I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so interested in it that I want to talk too much about the characters and that slows the story down. So I say, "Hey, people want to find out what's going to happen next, they don't want to listen to you spout off about this or that person." But I think even the bad guy deserves to tell his side of the story.
writing light paper
If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day.
writing thinking bullshit
I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.
writing get-better
The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.
writing men order
A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter despair. James, what’s wrong?' the friend asked. 'Is it the work?' Joyce indicated assent without even raising his head to look at his friend. Of course it was the work; isn’t it always? How many words did you get today?' the friend pursued. Joyce (still in despair, still sprawled facedown on his desk): 'Seven.' Seven? But James… that’s good, at least for you.' Yes,' Joyce said, finally looking up. 'I suppose it is… but I don’t know what order they go in!
writing succeed rudeness
If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.
writing careers littles
That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.
writing imagination world
Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.
writing thinking stuff
Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.