Quotes about writ
writing fiction flesh
It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in poetry and fiction, but the flesh made word William H. Gass
writing
Of the authors writing in English, I'd mention Shakespeare and Milton. But all this is terribly high-hat and makes me sound very po-faced, I'm afraid; however, I just happen to like these enormous, swinging, great creatures. William Golding
writing people mind
I'm not a critic so much of my own writing. People must make up their own minds over that.
writing thinking community
Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each other, and write in their own patch, as it were.
writing thinking unique
Graham Greene at 82 years old was still writing, and I don't think anyone can deny the force, the expertise, and the unique quality of his writing, if you take his complete oeuvre.
writing earth things-to-do
The easiest thing to do on earth is not write…But this is life on earth, you can't have everything. William Goldman
writing good-writers knows
A good writer is not someone who knows how to write- but how to rewrite
writing protect
You have to protect your writing time. You have to protect it to the death.
writing ideas dancing
Writing is finally about one thing: going into a room alone and doing it. Putting words on paper that have never been there in quite that way before. And although you are physically by yourself, the haunting Demon never leaves you, that Demon being the knowledge of your own terrible limitations, your hopeless inadequacy, the impossibility of ever getting it right. No matter how diamond-bright your ideas are dancing in your brain, on paper they are earthbound.
writing world easy
One of the easiest things in the world is not to write... If it were easy, everyone would do it.
writing wind wings
To write honestly and with conviction anything about the migration of birds, one should oneself have migrated. Somehow or other we should dehumanize ourselves, feel the feel of feathers on our body and wind in our wings, and finally know what it is to leave abundance and safety and daylight and yield to a compelling instinct, age-old, seeming at the time quite devoid of reason and object. William Beebe
writing might originality
Not like Homer would I write, Not like Dante if I might, Not like Shakespeare at his best, Not like Goethe or the rest, Like myself, however small, Like myself, or not at all. William Allingham
writing
Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day.
writing dip arteries
Dip your pen into your arteries and write. William Allen White
writing consolation died
I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find. Wilfrid Sheed
writing strategy candor
Beware the fictionist writing his own life. Even candor becomes a strategy.
writing discovery inspire
You are a bundle of mysteries. Finding and conquering yourself is a lifetime task. There are unplumbed depths in you full of the rich ore of personal discovery. Explore yourself! There is power in you - the power to change yourself and to change the world; the power to create plans, projects, movements for the common good; the power to inspire and serve. Wilferd Peterson
writing creative mind
Language gradually varies, and with it fade away the writings of authors who have flourished their allotted time; otherwise, the creative powers of genius would overstock the world, and the mind would be completely bewildered in the endless mazes of literature. Washington Irving
writing heart may
Others may write from the head, but he writes from the heart, and the heart will always understand him.
writing stories materials
I consider a story merely as a frame on which to stretch my materials.
writing elements want
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can. Walter Jon Williams
writing college courses
I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
writing reason
I now have to find a reason to write, every single day.
writing character world
Working within the limitations of the shared world generally made the writing easier, because I didn't have to invent any of the characters or background, which is usually the hardest part.
writing thinking slow-motion
Writing is thinking in slow motion. Walter Kaufmann
writing years games
realized that at a level I'd never been conscious we'd been engaged in a game of wits for years. I suppose most writer-subject pairings are like that. Of course, I'd set aside my plan to write about him [Clark Rockfeller] as soon as I'd gotten to know him some, but now I'd resumed that intention. Walter Kirn
writing dollars
I never earned a dollar that was not somehow through writing. Walter Lord
writing men thinking
I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away. Walter Lippmann
writing names snow
You write your name in the snow Yet say nothing. Voltaire
writing enemy nouns
The adjective is the enemy of the noun. Variant: The adjective is the enemy of the substantive.
writing voice painting
Writing is the painting of the voice.
writing facts dictionary
The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.
writing hatred literature
The only reward to be expected from literature is contempt if one fails and hatred if one succeeds.