Quotes about writing
writing men white-man
If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always White men who do that and you don't have the voices that are really interesting to me, of the people who are not sheltered by the big umbrella of the establishment. Isabel Allende
writing too-much persons
If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving...
writing worry making-love
Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
writing forgotten should
Write what should not be forgotten.
writing muse shows
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.
writing unity doe
Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short. Irving Howe
writing suggestions anecdotes
Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.
writing wish want
How much there is I want to do! I always feel that I haven't time to accomplish what I wish. I want to read much. I wanted to write a great deal. I want to make money. Irving Fisher
writing social conviction
I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence. George Eliot
writing self answers
Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion that you will like to hear from me. You see, I have asked no questions, which are the torture-screws of correspondence. Hence you have nothing to answer.
writing people thanks
People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least.
writing errors furniture
All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!
writing thinking interesting
I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions.
writing mind answers
I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over.
writing thinking personal-things
I think writing is a much more personal thing. Patrick Stump
writing singing
He's writing what I'm singing, and I'm writing what he's playing.
writing self scary-stories
There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies) Patrick Carman
writing ears melody
I really don't have an ear for pitch. I can't sing at all, I can't hum melodies and I can't write riffs. Patrick Carney
writing reality tv-shows
I'm trying to write a TV show. Ideally it would be just a reality-TV show, getting the guy who played Eddie Winslow and Kirk Cameron to live in a house. The Jehovah's Witnesses would come to the house a lot or something like that. I kind of like the idea of Scientologists and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses trying to convert Kirk Cameron.
writing digging harder
Writing isn't hard - no harder than ditch digging. Patrick Dennis
writing procrastination trying
I write at a standing desk, which has helped me be much more productive and solved some back problems, but mostly all my quirky habits have to do with procrastination and avoidance rather than with work. I'm slowly trying to stamp those out. Paolo Bacigalupi
writing blow dust
We write dust epitaphs for our vanquished enemies and watch them blow away in the desert wind.
writing thinking ideas
The act of writing should not be accompanied by the sense of an audience, someone peering over your shoulder, but in nonfiction I think it's almost imperative that you identify an audience so you can confirm or challenge or undermine whatever ideas or prejudices they might have about your subject. Pankaj Mishra
writing two islam
I found it really disturbing to see a novelist writing a diatribe about Islam and Muslim radical extremists, blurring the distinction between the two.
writing passion thinking
Nietzsche's vision of the superman is of someone who's able to control and tame his passions and turn them into something richer than raw emotion and raw feeling. I think the best writing does that too. Untamed passion basically results in bad writing or bad polemics, which so many writers and public intellectuals are vulnerable to.
writing vanity feelings
So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in the world and it has not been done before and only you can do it. Without these feelings, many writers would not be able to write anything at all.
writing ideas mindfulness
The whole idea of mindfulness is all about having a second-level monitoring of your thoughts and being able to recognize them as being negative or harmful before they become a part of your being, before they become some kind of action like writing an angry letter to someone or speaking too strongly to someone.
writing fruit imagine
Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries knows nothing about grapes. Paracelsus
writing passion piano
I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing. And it was my secret thing and my passion. Ottessa Moshfegh
writing people style
When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style. Otis Blackwell
writing guitar play
I'll sit around and play my guitar; that's how I write tunes. Otis Rush
writing film novel
A great novel is worth one thousand films. Oscar Hijuelos
writing lines way
Here's the bottom line; writers write. Sometimes words flow easily. Sometimes it's like sloughing through mud. Either way a professional writer keeps writing. P. C. Cast