Quotes about writ
writing focus wake-up
I wake up sometimes with an idea and then I write it down. It's not necessarily easy, but when you focus on something it comes. Vince Staples
writing bankers rich
A banker warned the British poet Robert Graves that one could not grow rich writing poetry. He replied that if there was no money in poetry, there was certainly no poetry in money, and so it was all even. Robert Graves
writing people details
Learn from cinema. Be economic with descriptions. Sort out the telling detail from the lifeless one. Write dialogue that people would actually speak. Rose Tremain
writing stuff firsts
Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be.
writing
I began writing as an experimental writer. Sandra Cisneros
writing worst rate
While an author is yet living, we estimate his powers by his worst performance; and when he is dead, we rate him by his best. Samuel Johnson
writing
By writing, you learn to write.
writing ideas phrases
There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work. Ryan Adams
writing reform care
[Write to your congressional representative against the health care reform proposal or] we will awake to find that we have socialism. Ronald Reagan
writing pedants faults
To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant. William Hazlitt
writing government people
Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor.', infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people. Wendell Phillips
writing discovery limits
Writing is a process of discovery of what you really do know. You can't limit yourself in advance to what you know, because you don't know everything you know. Walter Murch
writing poetry difficult
Why do you always write poetry? Why do you not write prose? Prose is so much more difficult. Walter Pater
writing mutation fiction
Science fiction [is] the kind of writing that prepares us for the necessary mutations brought about in society from an ever changing technological world and as a result. The mainstream hasn’t excluded SF; the mainstream has excluded itself. No one told Jules Verne he was a science fiction writer, but he invented the 20th century. Walter Mosley
writing expectations criticism
This is all you have to do. Sit down once a day to the novel and start working without internal criticism, without debilitating expectations, without the need to look at your words as if they were already printed and bound. The beginning is only a draft. Drafts are imperfect by definition.
writing needs want
All writing is that structure of revelation. There's something you want to find out. If you know everything up front in the beginning, you really don't need to read further if there's nothing else to find out.
writing stories normal
I write every day and I just love doing it. It's just a wonderful thing. Some of my stories work, some of them don't work. Some of them are wild and I love them, but they certainly don't fit into any kind of a normal system that I know about.
writing ideas stories
I'm writing, I'm using language, I'm using that language to tell stories and even more so to get ideas across. And I just love that, and I've always loved that.
writing thinking world
I think that computer programming shows in my writing. Often when I write about computer programmers I'll write about the way that they see the world and they structure the world.
writing journey creating
The process of writing a novel is like taking a journey by boat. You have to continually set yourself on course. If you get distracted or allow yourself to drift, you will never make it to the destination. It's not like highly defined train tracks or a highway; this is a path that you are creating discovering. The journey is your narrative. Keep to it and there will be a tale told.
writing two scary
The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do everyday. There are two reasons for this rule: Getting the work done and connecting with your unconscious mind.
writing history may
Whosoever in writing a modern history shall follow the truth too near the heels it may haply strike out his teeth. Walter Raleigh
writing opportunity simple
Historians desiring to write the actions of men, ought to set down the simple truth, and not say anything for love or hatred; also to choose such an opportunity for writing as it may be lawful to think what they will, and write what they think, which is a rare happiness of the time.
writing young-writers trouble
The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties. W. Somerset Maugham
writing men should
It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.
writing ideas brain
The ideas for stories that thronged my brain would not let me rest till I had got rid of them by writing them.
writing judging concerned
The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
writing
A good rule for writers: do not explain overmuch.
writing men greatness
Because a man can write great works he is none the less a man.
writing cutting play
The secret of play-writing can be given in two maxims: stick to the point, and, whenever you can, cut.
writing
You cannot write unless you write much.
writing men guilt
There is a sort of man who pays no attention to his good actions, but is tormented by his bad ones. This is the type that most often writes about himself.
writing crafts difficult
To write simply is as difficult as to be good.