Quotes about writing
writing trying bores
Crassly put: When I write, I am trying not to bore myself and my readers. Rita Dove
writing mean responsibility
I never think of my audience when I write a poem. I try to write out of whatever is haunting me; in order for a poem to feel authentic, I have to feel I'm treading on very dangerous ground, which can mean that the resulting revelations may prove hurtful to other people. The time for thinking about that kind of guilt or any collective sense of responsibility, however, occurs much later in the creative process, after the poem is finished.
writing thinking yield
To write for PC reasons, because you think you ought to be dealing with this subject, is never going to yield anything that is really going to matter to anyone else. It has to matter to you.
writing hands creative
Creative writing and literacy go hand and hand.
writing men letters
Men who write love letters don't live in this century. Rita Rudner
writing feelings jokes
I get so happy when I write a joke. It's a very satisfying, liberating feeling.
writing thinking jokes
I love to write jokes and that's all I think about.
writing views pay
I write poetry. It comes naturally to me, but from a technical point of view it forces me to pay close attention to language and to scan. Rita Mae Brown
writing doors splinters
I've got splinters in my nose from the best publishing doors in town.
writing two nominations
I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in their category.
writing color show-me
Show me a writer, any writer, who hasn't suffered and I'll show you someone who writes in pastels as opposed to primary colors.
writing exclusive
Money and writing appear to be mutually exclusive.
writing want next
If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I'm writing.
writing past ice
The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have.
writing hollywood thirty
Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
writing relief way
Updike worked this way, and I just kinda borrowed it from him. So the memoir will be relief from novel writing for a moment. Rick Moody
writing relief needs
In general, each form is a relief from the other forms. I can't write a novel after a novel. I just use up all the material each time, and I need to rest.
writing opportunity details
I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.
writing ideas voice
The idea to make hotel reviews the form of the novel came first.So I just started writing hotel reviews and tried to come up with a consistent voice.
writing should-have games
The same with the mortgage brokers that were selling people mortgages they couldn't afford. We shouldn't pay them on each mortgage they write. They should have what they call "skin in the game," where they've got to reimburse us if the guy who sold the mortgage defaults. Richard Thaler
writing should-have wife
I am writing Parsifal only for my wife - if I had to depend on the German spirit, I should have nothing more to say. Richard Wagner
writing thinking brain
I had to write about realistic circumstances. Thats the way my brain works. And I think that gave me a sort of place in the field. Richard Matheson
writing bridges fiction
I could never write about strange kingdoms. I could never do Harry Potter or anything like that. Even when I did science-fiction, I didnt write about foreign planets and distant futures. I certainly never did fantasies about trolls living under bridges.
writing worry overcoming
God, how impossible life is without money. Nothing can ever overcome it, it's everything when it's anything. How can I write in peace with endless worries of money, money, money? (“Disappearing Act”)
writing creative opponents
If you go too far in fantasy and break the string of logic, and become nonsensical, someone will surely remind you of your dereliction....Pound for pound, fantasy makes a tougher opponent for the creative person.
writing thinking important
I think the benefit of being a writer is that I'm looking for the subtext on the page, because all good writing has subtext. And as a writer, you look at the big scope of things, the big story, rather than just your individual story line, because I think it's important to know what you're in and how you fit into it. Richard Dormer
writing soul may
If a poet writes to save his soul, he may save the soul of others. Richard Eberhart
writing goal confusion
It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion. Rene Daumal
writing acting
Because I've always been more afraid of writing than I have of doing anything visually such as directing or acting. Renee O'Connor
writing discovery rainbow
The rainbow is such a remarkable phenomenon of nature, and its cause has been so meticulously sought after by inquiring minds throughout the ages, that I could not choose a more appropriate subject for demonstrating how, with the method I am using, we can arrive at knowledge not possessed at all by those whose writings are available to us. Rene Descartes
writing issues transcendental
When writing about transcendental issues, be transcendentally clear.
writing winning way
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. Thornton Wilder
writing men roles
How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals the meaning for his existence and write the rules whereby he lives.