Quotes about writing
writing thinking college
In college, I think I probably positioned myself as an aspiring writer, meaning I dressed sort of extravagantly and adopted all the semi-Byronic affectations, as if I were writing, although I wasn't actually doing any writing. Anthony Bourdain
writing interesting worldview
[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true.
writing editing trying
I write quickly with a sense of urgency. I don't edit myself out of existence, meaning I'll try to write 50 or 60 pages before I start rereading, revising and editing. That just helps with my confidence.
writing important prime
Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too. Andy Summers
writing guitar synthesizers
For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument.
writing long long-time
I've been writing and wanting to direct for a long time. Andy Serkis
writing people passionate
Working with people you adore and love. There's just a sense, all the way through all of the movies [Planet of Apes], that you're very rarely in a position where you have great material that you're passionate about and a big audience who love it, and the detail and nuance, and the exquisiteness of the fantastic actors and director with great writing.
writing thinking typewriters
When I write, I use an Underwood #5 made in 1920. Someone gave me an electric typewriter, but there's no use pretending you can use machinery that thinks faster than you do. An electric typewriter is ready to go before I have anything to say. Andy Rooney
writing should sentences
Anyone should be very suspicious of a sentence he's written that can't be read aloud easily.
writing punctuation-marks confusing
The one affectation I have forced on the publisher ... are my apostrophe-free ellisions. Because I write my scripts to read myself, I dont spell 'don't' with an apostrophe. I spell it 'dont'. We all know the word and it seems foolish to put in an extraneous apostrophe. Punctuation marks are devices we use to make the meaning of sentences clear. There is nothing confusing about a word like 'dont' printed without an apostrophe to indicate an omitted letter.
writing television wells
It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.
writing retiring
I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.
writing thinker good-writers
You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.
writing generosity giving
Generosity won't happen unless you make it a priority. The best way to make giving a priority is to make it the very first check you write every month. Before the mortgage. Before groceries or clothing. Before saving. Whatever the amount, do it first. Andy Stanley
writing vision ink
Pencil in your plans but write your visions in ink
writing thinking people
Nutty people are always writing me. I always think I must be on some nutty mailing list. Andy Warhol
writing thinking-about-you people
Some people spend their entire lives thinking about one particular famous person. They pick one person who's famous, and they dwell on him or her. They devote almost their entire consciousness to thinking about this person they've never even met, or maybe met once. If you ask any famous person about the kind of mail they get, you'll find that almost every one of them has at least one person who's obsessed with them and writes constantly. It feels so strange to think that someone is spending their whole time thinking about you.
writing hair necks
If the hairs on my neck stand up while Im writing, I figure the reader will get the same kind of shock. Andrew Pyper
writing discovery self
Writing a novel is an act of self-annihilation as much as self-discovery. You can kill whole appetites and flood whole depths while plumbing them, but if you are serious about it you also get to put something into the world that wasn't quite there before. Andrew O'Hagan
writing thinking sometimes
I don't freestyle, but when I'm writing and thinking, sometimes things pop up - that's basically a freestyle. Andre Benjamin
writing opposites grace
Don't outline your stories. A lot of fiction workshops say you should. I say the opposite. I quote Grace Paley: "We write what we don't know we know." Andre Dubus
writing thinking discovery
What's so exciting and terrifying about the writing process is that it really is an act of exploration and discovery. With all of us, not just writers, there is a sort of knowledge of the other. We have a lot more in common than we realize, and I think writing is really a sustained act of empathy.
writing fog years
I'm one of those writers who can't talk about what they're working on. The entire four years I was writing 'House of Sand and Fog,' my wife never saw a word of it. I just have to keep it in the womb, and then everyone can have a crack at it.
writing
Even a day writing badly for me is 10 times better than a day where I don’t write at all.
writing years care
Don't quit. It's very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not, and it's very hard to write when nobody cares one way or the other. You can't get fired if you don't write, and most of the time you don't get rewarded if you do. But don't quit.
writing thinking careers
If you don't put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There's the writer and there's the author. The author - you don't ever think about the author. Just think about the writer. So my advice would be, find a way to not care - easier said than done.
writing years desire
I've learned over the years that the writing is smarter and far larger than the writer and his or her own desires for it.
writing silence trying
Short story writers simply do what human beings have always done. They write stories because they have to; because they cannot rest until they have tried as hard as they can to write the stories. They cannot rest because they are human, and all of us need to speak into the silence of mortality, to interrupt and ever so briefly stop that quiet flow, and with stories try to understand at least some of it.
writing life-is drag
One of the things I learned about writing a memoir is you can’t drag the reader through everything. Every human life is worth 20 memoirs.
writing young-writers refrain
If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so. Andre Gide
writing thinking secret
The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
writing generations substance
Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
writing literature produce
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.