Quotes about writing
writing people desperate
writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers. Charles Bukowski
writing insanity way
There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity.
writing bad-writing bad-woman
bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it
writing profound simplicity
Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity
writing thinking people
Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.
writing simple secret
The secret is writing down one simple line after another.
writing trying
not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.
writing character prejudice
It is always sad to write about prejudice, but sometimes when we see it being played out in the lives of fictional characters, we can recognize it in our own lives. Katherine Paterson
writing world fiction
The world that is in me is the only world I have by which to grasp the world outside and as I write fiction, it is the chart by which I must steer.
writing directors enjoy
I write music to please myself. Hopefully the director's enjoying it too. Carter Burwell
writing doe tennessee
This fear is one of the horrors of an author's life. Where does work come from? What chance, what small episode will start the chain of creation? I once wrote a story about a writer who could not write anymore, and my friend Tennessee Williams said, 'How could you dare write that story, it's the most frightening work I have ever read.' I was pretty well sunk while I was writing it. Carson McCullers
writing passion love-is
Love is the main generator of all good writing... Love, passion, compassion, are all welded together.
writing feelings way
It was like they waited to tell each other things that had never been told before. What she had to say was terrible and afraid. But what he would tell her was so true that it would make everything all right. Maybe it was a thing that could not be spoken with words or writing. Maybe he would have to let her understand this in a different way. That was the feeling she had with him.
writing
Writing, for me, is a search for God.
writing rocks phantoms
The writer must hew the phantom rock.
writing shapes arriving
I see the shape of the poem before I start writing, and the writing is just the process of arriving at the shape. Carol Ann Duffy
writing poetry
I am always pleased to be asked to write a poem.
writing feelings trying
Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.
writing first-love firsts
I love to write. I have always loved writing. That was my first love. Carol Burnett
writing way
What I do when I write is I just write the way I would tell it, so it comes out just exactly the way I would talk to you.
writing band talent
Living composers writing for big band are very few and far between. There are not a lot of them, and I have a talent for doing it. I am zeroing in on what I do best. Carla Bley
writing care writing-music
I care about writing music and playing my music. Carla Bruni
writing class trying
For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most useful. Alan Lightman
writing magic-realism long
I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing. I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
writing groups different
In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
writing views world
Every essay - the subject matter of every essay - is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.
writing thinking creating
My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you're not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You're actually discovering in the writing process, you're actually creating knowledge.
writing our-world interesting
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie. I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
writing people sophisticated
I write what I call 'novels of consolation' for people who are bright and sophisticated. Alan Furst
writing use plot
I don't really write plots. I use history as the engine that drives everything.
writing character
Once you have your characters, they tell you what to write, you don't tell them.
writing simple world
When you start, the world of publishing seems like a great cathedral citadel of talent, resisting attempts to let you inside. It isn't like that at all. It may be more difficult now, and take longer than when I started to write, but there's a great, empty warehouse out there looking for simple talent. Alan Garner
writing ifs
If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.