Quotes about writing
writing ifs
If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you. Alan Garner
writing stories research
I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.
writing trying trends
Don't try to write to the trend of the moment. Alan Dean Foster
writing
I've been writing full-time since 1978.
writing world funny-travel
Writing allows me the time to travel and see the world, which is what I always wanted to do. I'd really like to have been Sir Richard Francis Burton, but it's the wrong century.
writing symphony notes
I hear entire symphonies, oratorios, in my head, but I can't write a note.
writing perfect important
Keep writing. Try to do a little bit every day, even if the result looks like crap. Getting from page four to page five is more important than spending three weeks getting page four perfect.
writing way
The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.
writing merit source
So that's why one of my rules of parody writing is that it's gotta be funny regardless of whether you know the source material. It has to work on its own merit. Al Yankovic
writing knows
I know now that everything I write, I'm going to put out, and I'll have to live with it for the rest of my life.
writing simplicity belief
Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence. Alain de Botton
writing trying attention
I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many non-fiction writers pay to the formal aspects of their work.
writing use naivety
I know a lot about writing, but I don't know much about how other industries work. I've tried to use my naivety to my advantage.
writing fiction uncomfortable
I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
writing what-matters records
As we write, so we build: to keep a record of what matters to us.
writing sane
My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.
writing self careers
Writing isn’t a career choice. It’s self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
writing men sexuality
I am not a prisoner of my sexuality like men younger than myself although I write about being a prisoner. Al Goldstein
writing inspire tone
I don't really know what inspires me to write the music I do, but usually, the music will set the tone for the lyrics. Eddie Van Halen
writing guitar ukulele
I was able to apply ukulele to whatever I'm trying to write. It's become part of songwriting for me, the knowledge I gained from hearing the melodies come out, and then applying that to guitar or vocals. Eddie Vedder
writing guitar ukulele
Things like guitars and ukuleles, you should never part with it, because there will probably be good, healthy times spent, just playing and writing.
writing choices world
If there was anything that I learned with my own writing process, maybe there's too many choices what to write about. Just the amount of subject matter in the world these days; maybe that feels chaotic for me.
writing editors careers
I began using pseudonyms early in my career, when I was being paid a quarter a cent a word for my work, and when I had to write a lot to earn a living. Sometimes I had three or four stories in a single magazine without the editor knowing they were all by me. Ed McBain
writing different mindset
Depending on what I'm working on, I come to the writing desk with entirely different mindsets. When I change form one to the other, it's as if another writer is on the scene.
writing style actors
Changing writing styles is like an actor taking on a different part.
writing reader ifs
Readers are what it's all about, aren't they? If not, why am I writing?
writing night next-day
Time can't be managed. I merely manage activities. Each night, I write down on a sheet of paper a list of the things I have to accomplish the next day. And when I wake up ... I do them. Earl Nightingale
writing difficult
Writing doesn't come easily to me. It gets more and more difficult. Elizabeth David
writing two letters
It takes two to write a letter as much as it takes two to make a quarrel. Elizabeth Drew
writing self names
Propaganda has a bad name, but its root meaning is simply to disseminate through a medium, and all writing therefore is propaganda for something. It's a seeding of the self in the consciousness of others.
writing doe written
I've never written the things I'd like to write that I've admired all my life. Maybe one never does. Elizabeth Bishop
writing thinking littles
And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have.
writing life-is bigs
Life is this great big blackboard, and on it you write all the things that you do. Elizabeth Edwards