Quotes about writ
writing rewriting good-writing
Good writing is essentially rewriting. Roald Dahl
writing stories fifty
By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.
writing important modesty
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
writing long-walks long
When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk
writing two people
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
writing stories pleasure
For me, the pleasure of writing comes with inventing stories.
writing felt
To me some of the greatest writing is when somebody puts something in words that you felt and experienced and you go, that's it. Rob Bell
writing want strings
I realized very early that I was never going to make by living by writing string quartets. But I wanted to write music and I didn't want to have to do anything else.
writing cities police
I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side, or a small urban city like Jersey City. Richard Price
writing imagine because-i-can
I write because I can't imagine not writing.
writing issues bigger
The bigger the issue, the smaller you write.
writing stories ends
If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing.
writing office finished
I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.
writing america race
I write about race in America in hopes of undermining the notion of race in America. Richard Rodriguez
writing thinking talking
I think what education gives you is a voice. It gives you a way of talking to a judge. When a policeman pulls you off to the side of the road, you have a voice. When you cross a border, you have a voice. When you are writing to express your opinions, you have a voice.
writing fake bad-writing
You can't fake it. Bad writing is a gift. Richard Le Gallienne
writing identity criticism
Critics stopped being relevant when they stopped writing to inform and contextualize, and when they started writing to signal who they are, to display their identity by their stance on what they are writing about. Criticism should never be about the critic, but thats what it has become, and that’s why no one cares about them anymore. Tucker Max
writing rapper support
Support me... If you don't understand me don't write about me Tupac Shakur
writing mind blind
Before I write I let my mind go blind and let the lord do his thing.
writing i-can
Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it. Trevor McDonald
writing theme melody
I really love writing themes and melody. Trevor Rabin
writing finishing done
I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another.
writing simple want
Writing a simple melody can take weeks to get it right where I want it, but I do quite enjoy it.
writing guitar piano
Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is. Trey Anastasio
writing parks scene
It's been a fascinating thing because we didn't really know how to write when we started South Park at all. It's been like, we've just sort of grown up a bit and it's amazing to just see how, if you take Butters and Cartman and put them in any scene, it works. Trey Parker
writing eye space
Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny how much a single word can provide focus and direction. As soon as I claimed that identity, I started clearing more and more space for poetry in my life and applying poetic tools to other areas of my life. The world became a different place, and I witnessed it through different kinds of eyes. Tracy K. Smith
writing august should-have
After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I'm from the Midwest, and that's what we do: We go back to work. Tracy Letts
writing next hell
I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never have a plan.
writing character shoes
Well, one of the things we're supposed to be able to do as playwrights is write from a place of empathy, get into another character's shoes and experience things both mundane and tragic. And people don't -- like me right now -- people aren't necessarily the most eloquent when trying to express their emotions. I guess I feel as a playwright that those people deserve a voice, too, a voice that isn't so articulate that they themselves can no longer identify with it.
writing adjectives care
Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum. Tracy Chevalier
writing tired feel-good
I try to write 1,000 words a day - about three pages. When I reach 1,000 words I feel good. Less than that: a failure. More than that: tired.
writing thinking interesting
Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think.
writing done copying
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia Tracy Kidder