Quotes about writing
writing touch-someone doe
Does anybody learn writing, or do they just touch someone who lets them see the power of the deleted word? Richard Bach
writing ideas two
There are two tests that we [writers] have for all of our writing: So What? and Who Cares? There is an answer to both. The answer to Who Cares is that a reader cares, if the writing is good. The answer to So What is that these ideas give us completely new understanding, change our sense of who we [people] are and why we're here [on this planet].
writing thinking typewriters
It took time to learn that the hard thing about writing is to let the story write itself, while one sits at the typewriter and does as little thinking as possible. It happened over and over again, and the beginner learned - when you start puzzling over an idea, and slowing down on the keys, the writing gets worse and worse.
writing different world
The great thing about writing is, if you don't like the world, we'll create a different one.
writing silence pressure
Never discuss the poem you contemplate writing. It's like turning on the outside spigot. It takes all the pressure off the upstairs bathroom. Robert Frost
writing men style
Style is less the man than the way a man takes himself.
writing thinking ministry
I think my writing is part of my ministry. Robert Fulghum
writing beginners trials
Modern poets talk against business, poor things, but all of us write for money. Beginners are subjected to trial by market.
writing talking house
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second.
writing play tennis
I've given offense by saying I'd as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.
writing knows
I write to find out what I didn't know I knew.
writing america long
How are we to write The Russian novel in America As long as life goes so unterribly?
writing heaven ifs
In heaven we are all ghostwriters, if we write at all.
writing tennis poetry
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
writing discovering
Writing a poem is discovering.
writing ears icy
The ear is the only true writer and the only true reader.
writing knowing nine
Nine-tenths of the value of a sense of humor in writing is not in the things it makes one write but in the things it keeps one from writing. It is especially valuable in this respect in serious writing, and no one without a sense of humor should ever write seriously. For without knowing what is funny, one is constantly in danger of being funny without knowing it. Robert Benchley
writing typewriters ribbons
The biggest obstacle to professional writing is the necessity for changing a typewriter ribbon.
writing dyslexia novel
I couldn't sit down and write a novel or a short story - even now - because of my dyslexia. But I learned narration through movies.
writing wells
You say to yourself, Well, this poem isn't going to be any good, but I'll write it anyway. Robert Bly
writing healing feelings
My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes.
writing would-be alive
If Shakespeare were alive today and writing comedy for the movies, he would be the head-liner for the Mack Sennett studios.
writing wind mind
If you are one of the hewers of wood and drawers of small weekly paychecks, your letters will have to contain some few items of news or they will be accounted dry stuff.... But if you happen to be of a literary turn of mind, or are, in any way, likely to become famous, you may settle down to an afternoon of letter-writing on nothing more sprightly in the way of news than the shifting of the wind from south to south-east.
writing men pieces
The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
writing
Whatever you write about me, don't make it sad. Rita Hayworth
writing thinking trying
At the very beginning when I begin writing a poem I try not to think of the audience or anyone at all except for trying to get at the very center of what is driving that poem. In a way it's like analyzing myself. Rita Dove
writing discovery never-quit
I'm never quite sure how the poem is going to resolve itself and that I'm always in some way surprised. I make a discovery in a poem as I write it.
writing quality needs
In fact, sometimes traveling the world is a way of not writing a poem, but it's the quality of experience. It's being able to experience something and when you begin to write about it be able to apply the tools that you need for writing.
writing hopefully-not historical
I've always felt that the poems I've written which have historical context are hopefully not just simply plucking something out of history and saying great, let's write about that. In every case what has happened is that I've become fascinated or haunted by something and couldn't shake it.
writing thinking world
I think that you certainly don't have to be aged and travel the world to write a poem.
writing doe
What writing does is to reveal.
writing play stories
I write short stories, and I wrote a play.
writing college i-realized
It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing