Quotes about writing
writing world tonight
For I must write to The Times tonight, and save the world from sin. A. P. Herbert
writing self woven
Henry Miller may write about revelers self-woven into a human hooked rug, because his ecstasy is solemn. A. J. Liebling
writing reflection mature
Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.
writing way damn
The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.
writing impossible eating
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite. Without this, it is impossible to accumulate, within the allotted span, enough experience of eating to have anything worth setting down.
writing pay firsts
If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total.
writing faster i-can
I can write better than anyone who can write faster,
writing culinary appetite
The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite.
writing years fans
I’m not a fan of ‘write what you know.’ If you don’t know, find out. I knew nothing about the Bible before I started writing ‘The Year of Living Biblically.’ That was kind of the point – to learn. A. J. Jacobs
writing shadow feels
Everyone writes in Tolstoy's shadow, whether one feels oneself to be Tolstoyan or not. A. N. Wilson
writing thinking people
I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.
writing past history
The past actually happened. History is what someone took the time to write down. A. Whitney Brown
writing way paint
I'd like to write the way Matisse paints. A. S. Byatt
writing novelists hated
I hated being a novelist when I was 20 - I had nothing to write about.
writing thinking venus
I don't think it is an easy thing to write and expect to be commercial, even if you are from Venus and a hermaphrodite.
writing ants literature
I don't only write about English literature; I also write about chaos theory and... ants. I can understand ants.
writing research pieces
I did a lot of my writing as though I was an academic, doing some piece of research as perfectly as possible.
writing creative sublime
Creative Writing was not a form of psychotherapy, in ways both sublime and ridiculuous, it clearly was, precisely that.
writing men
History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself...
writing light solitude
What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.
writing poison terrible
It's a terrible poison, writing.
writing ease world
The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
writing good-writing
Good writing is always new.
writing want and-love
I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.
writing ink hops
Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.
writing school artist
There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing...
writing perfect limelight
Time is the best author. It always writes the perfect ending. Charlie Chaplin
writing dinner feels
Unless I write every day, I don't feel I deserve my dinner.
writing use different
Writing music uses a whole different process that involves a lot of noodling and just seeing what comes. Charles de Lint
writing play careers
I never even considered writing a career option. I just liked the play of words. I was certainly interested in story, but the stories I was telling then were in narrative verse and prose poems, short and succinct, except for one novel-length poem written in narrative couplets.
writing paper remember
The thing to remember when you're writing is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader.
writing might-use giving
The thing to remember when you're writing," he said, " is, it's not whether or not what you put on paper is true. It's whether it wakes a truth in your reader. I don't care what literary device you might use, or belief systems you tap into--if you can make a story true for the reader, if you can give them a glimpse into another way of seeing the world, or another way that they can cope with their problems, then that story is a succes.
writing character knows
I find the characters in my head and the more I write about them, the better I get to know them.