Quotes about writing
writing criticism shells
If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell. Anne Beatts
writing gun what-if
I'm into lately being a little less precious about writing and being like, "Okay, what if I just locked myself in my room, pretend that there's someone outside with a gun that's saying, 'Don't come out until you write something.'" Andrew Bird
writing hopeful motivated
I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.
writing fit chords
I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
writing sometimes enjoy
I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.
writing advice
That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well. Amos Oz
writing
Don't write about that which you don't know.
writing sacrifice night
Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.
writing process avoiding
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding. Amy Bloom
writing practice differences
Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they say it. {on the habits of psychoanalytic training and practice applied to fiction writing} The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me.
writing novel
I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it.
writing miracle mutual
I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.
writing people enemy
I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies.
writing novel listen-to-me
When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that, you should do this." They don't listen to me, but I've been doing this for sixty years now. But, when I write a novel, I am not in that business.
writing giving perspective
In writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives and give each of them very a convincing voice. It's like playing tennis with yourself and you have to be on both sides of the yard. You have to be on both sides, or all sides if there are more than two sides.
writing appearance novel
Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I don't bother to write a novel. I write an article and publish it in a popular newspaper, or I make a television appearance.
writing
I write in words. I don write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.
writing hebrew
I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.
writing musical important
My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.
writing lasts doe
Nothing is worth doing at all, nothing is worth writing, which does not do something which will last. Amy Carmichael
writing knowing interesting
It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write. Ally Condie
writing easier
Why are some things easier to write than say?
writing people trying
I was always enjoying the moment. Acting, writing, looking for roles and getting involved with people and trying to create something that would be entertaining to people. With 'E.R.,' we were all very lucky to get this combination of people together in the right story in the right way to take it to the level it has reached. Anthony Edwards
writing joy challenges
Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested. Anthony Doerr
writing
I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.
writing voice opera
I love opera, I love writing for the voice, I love telling stories with music. Anthony Davis
writing meditation used
I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me. Anne Stevenson
writing feelings mind
Yes, I do often write poems from the mind, but I hope I don't ignore feelings and emotions.
writing character differences
There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females. Anne Tyler
writing character two
I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin
writing shy appearance
I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
writing looks lasts
I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
writing mind mechanic
Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.