Quotes about writ
writing hands left-hand
I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels. Umberto Eco
writing thinking weekend
I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.
writing past trying
It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
writing ideas creating
An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.
writing media careers
A lot of people can figure out the social media aspect of it, or the merchandising aspect, or whatever and get enough momentum to start a career. To sustain it, you have to keep writing and you have to keep creating. Tyler Hilton
writing numbers feelings
There's the underlying feeling that writing must be easy, because it's all about putting letters together. That's only true in the same way that programming is all about putting numbers together. Rhianna Pratchett
writing people matter
The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take very seriously. Reza Aslan
writing simple two
Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself. Raymond Chandler
writing perception criticism
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
writing eye loss
Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no longer alone, they have an investment in critical praise, and they think they must protect it. This leads to a diffusion of effort. The writer watches himself as he works. He grows more subtle and he pays for it by loss of organic dash.
writing style investment
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
writing passion technique
Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
writing years want
The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
writing mind tools
I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift. Regina Spektor
writing thinking doe
Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z. The hard part of writing isn't the writing; it's the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next? William Zinsser
writing good-writing
Good writing is lean and confident.
writing
You learn to write by writing.
writing-well subjects sells
Ultimately the product that any writer has to sell is not the subject being written about, but who he or she is.
writing cutting thinking
If you want to "get in touch with your feelings," fine, talk to yourself. We all do. But if you want to communicate with another thinking human being, get in touch with your thoughts. Put them in order, give them a purpose, use them to persuade, to instruct, to discover, to seduce. The secret way to do this is to write it down, and then cut out the confusing parts. William Safire
writing mind way
I like writing. It keeps my mind off grim subjects. It's therapeutic in the same way a patient in an institution is given fingerpaints. Woody Allen
writing wish comedy
I wish I was writing something much more heavy each time I did a film, and that the comedies just occasionally come out. But unfortunately you're stuck with what you're born with.
writing actors alive
I have great faith in the actors. When they improvise, it always sounds better than the stuff I write in my bedroom. When they improvise, they make it sound alive.
writing thinking people
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters. William Shenstone
writing stories easy
All I can do is write my stories for mankind, and rest easy. William Saroyan
writing play way
You write a hit play the same way you write a flop.
writing years ideas
I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race.
writing ill-health despair
I took to writing at an early age to escape from meaninglessness, uselessness, unimportance, insignificance, poverty, enslavement, ill health, despair, madness, and all manner of other unattractive, natural and inevitable things.
writing humanity way
Writing is a way of sharing our humanity. William McIlvanney
writing connections mars
Won't it be sad to have an Internet connection to Mars if there are no Martians to write to or e-mail us? William J. Clinton
writing autism known
I've been interested in autism since I've known about it, which is more or less since I've been writing. William Gibson
writing written
I don't always like writing, but I very much like having written.
writing would-be fiction
When I began to write fiction that I knew would be published as science fiction, [and] part of what I brought to it was the critical knowledge that science fiction was always about the period in which it was written.
writing years lasts
Especially in the last 10 years, the writing on animated shows has jumped by leaps and bounds. Will Friedle