Quotes about writing
writing habit latter
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to - mostly the latter. Barbara Mertz
writing names wave
We write our names in the sand: and then the waves roll in and wash them away. Augustus
writing thinking secret
The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work. Augusten Burroughs
writing effort alive
I never question the way I write. Writing is the only thing that's without seams for me. It's an effort to talk because my pictures have to be turned into these sounds. It's an effort to be alive. It's work. But writing is wonderful.
writing way
Writing has enriched my life in ways I never imaged.
writing worry smoking
I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. I’m shutting down. I need to go the other way, inside. And it was so clear to me what I was doing. It was suddenly perfectly clear. I understood, I need to write. Live here, in my words, and my head. I need to go inside, that’s all. No big, complicated, difficult thing. I just need to go in reverse. And not worry about what to write about, but just write. Or, if I’m going to worry about what to write, then do this worrying on paper, so at least I’m writing and will have a record of the anxiety.
writing down-and ritual
My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.
writing caring thinking
There is nothing about MYSELF that I wouldn't reveal or write about. I don't care how horrendous or ridiculous I may appear in person or in print. There is great freedom in not caring what other people think.
writing thinking eight
(The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It seems wiser to let him think I’m an aspiring novelist instead of just an alcoholic with a year of sobriety who spends eight hours a day writing about the other 16.
writing editing judging
The thing for someone just starting off [in writing] is to write. You need to have limber fingers, whether you write with your fingers or you type on your laptop, but you need to have a limber mind and you need to be able to write without judging what you've written, at least right away, and without editing right away.
writing sitting lines
But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.
writing decided happens
Once I decided to write, to be published, I knew it would happen.
writing npr
And I tend to listen to NPR when I'm not writing.
writing listening-to-music
I never listen to music when I write.
writing years lasts
I could write another collection of personal essays from what has happened to me in the last year alone. I don't seek out my material - it finds me. I am magnetic, somehow.
writing routine email
I don't have a fixed routine. I write every day but I don't "write" every day, if that makes any sense. In other words, I email with my friends constantly and sometimes I'll pull out something I've written and save it.
writing doe subconscious
My subconscious does the writing; I don't have control over that.
writing math thinking
I'll always write about what's going on in my life and the reason for that is it's not actually because I'm so fascinated with myself, it's because I can't think. I can't think like have thoughts in my head and think them through and come to a conclusion. It's like math for me.
writing winning tvs
With my own memoirs, they are truthful, and I write everything fully expecting to some day end up televised on Court TV, and I'm fully prepared to be challenged legally on it. Everything I write is the truth and I know that I would win.
writing interesting people
There is no such thing as too ordinary to write about, whether that's life or a scene in a novel. What's interesting to people, whether it's memoir or fiction, is the truth.
writing giving speech
There's a lot about being "A Writer" that has nothing to do with writing. That's one thing I've discovered. You've got to meet with the sales force, and you've got to have all these luncheons, and be gracious, and you've got to give a lot of presentations and you've got to give a lot of speeches, and you've got to be on tour.
writing thinking wells
What I think of blogs is just this: Some are beautifully written and many are not. But even blogs that aren't necessarily "well" written are great for the person writing them.
writing names errors
I trust that a graduate student some day will write a doctoral essay on the influence of the Munich analogy on the subsequent history of the twentieth century. Perhaps in the end he will conclude that the multitude of errors committed in the name of Munich may exceed the original error of 1938. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
writing language clarity
Clarity in language depends on clarity in thought.
writing bars cows
A publisher who writes is like a cow in a milk bar. Arthur Koestler
writing wind play
As a writer, I've always believed that while my work and I myself are embedded in whatever period I am writing about, clearly I am sensitive to the winds that are blowing in the culture. At the same time, I have always felt that the issue was not to deal with the problem in the abstract, but to deal with the people who are in that problem. The emphasis is on the people. The general problem begins to resolve itself even before the play is finished. Arthur Miller
writing play trying
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
writing i-can ifs
If I see an ending, I can work backward.
writing years play
My plays are always involved with society, but I'm writing about people, too, and it's clear over the years that audiences understand them and care about them. The political landscape changes, the issues change, but the people are still there. People don't really change that much.
writing son bed
Rise early. Write. Disappoint your sons. Read the newspaper. Go to bed early. Success.
writing mad long
One had the right to write because other people needed news of the inner world, and if they went too long without such news they would go mad with the chaos of their lives.
writing embarrassing best-work
The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.
writing fighting wife
I'm working when I'm fighting with my wife. I constantly ask myself-how can I use this stuff to literary advantage. Art Buchwald