Quotes about writ
writing solace supreme
Writing is the supreme solace. W. Somerset Maugham
writing broken habit
Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.
writing gentleman comeback
It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
writing style creative-writing
The best style is the style you don't notice.
writing looks weight
Words have weight, sound and appearance; it is only by considering these that you can write a sentence that is good to look at and good to listen to.
writing effort style
A good style should show no signs of effort. What is written should seem a happy accident.
writing want
We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.
writing real-talk three
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
writing stories use
All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.
writing character passion
If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.
writing order three
I do not begin my novel at the beginning, I do not reach chapter three before I reach chapter four, I do not go dutifully from one page to the next, in consecutive order; no, I pick out a bit here and a bit there, till I have filled all the gaps on paper. This is why I like writing my stories and novels on index cards, numbering them later when the whole set is complete. Every card is rewritten many times. Vladimir Nabokov
writing grows tumors
The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before.
writing trying different
I'll write down and catalogue all the different devices that are Americana to me, and I try to have a historic depth and breadth and also the things that we do in our time, the type of vamps and chants, things that are available to us. Wynton Marsalis
writing
I like myself better when I'm writing regularly. Willie Nelson
writing down-and force
Anytime that I've felt uninspired, I don't force myself to sit down and write. I only do it when I feel the impulse. Zoe Kazan
writing talking honest
I'm most honest about writing when I'm talking to family or friends, not to newspapers. Zadie Smith
writing world duty
A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world.
writing hacking fiction
What's hard, in hacking as in fiction, is not writing, it's deciding what to write. Neal Stephenson
writing oxford ideas
In the room where I work, I have a chalkboard, and as I'm going along, I write the made-up words on it. A few feet from that chalkboard is a copy of the full 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary, to which I refer frequently as a source of ideas and word roots.
writing interesting stories
The story is everything, so it always begins with a story. Research is a kind of scaffolding built underneath the story as I go along. My enjoyment level varies, but in general, I'm writing about topics I find interesting, so I can't gripe too much.
writing tears down-and
I find myself often moved to tears by what is being written in front of me. Sometimes, I just sit on the couch and write the words down and cry because the beauty of the thoughts and how exquisitely they are being expressed. Neale Donald Walsch
writing caring helping-others
You cannot help another who will not help him or herself. In the end, all souls must walk their path - and the reason they are walking a particular path may not be clear to us... or even to them at the level of ordinary human consciousness. Do what you can to help others, of course. Show love and caring whenever and wherever you can. But do not get caught up in someone else's "story" to the point where you start writing it.
writing traits
There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching. Morley Callaghan
writing thinking acting
Writing I think, out of what all of us do, writing is the hardest. You're the only who start with nothing except what's up here. You do that. It's really hard I think, acting is not. Morgan Freeman
writing names people
I'm not one who can write out a speech and remember all the names of the people that you need to thank because you need to thank all of those people.
writing winning insightful
Write something insightful. Say Morgan Freeman said it. Win at internet.
writing years four
If you're writing a novel, you're in a room for three or four years. There's not much coming in from the outside. Mordecai Richler
writing office done
I work every day - or at least I force myself into office or room. I may get nothing done, but you don't earn bonuses without putting in time. Nothing may come for three months, but you don't earn the fourth without it.
writing voice people
Well, when I was a young writer the people we read were Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Sartre, Camus, Celine, Malraux. And to begin with, I was a bit of a copycat writer and very derivative and tried to write a novel using their voices, really.... I keep it out of print.
writing frustration dying
Fundamentally, all writing is about the same thing; it's about dying, about the brief flicker of time we have here, and the frustration that it creates.
writing upset betrayed
If you caricature friends in your first novel they will be upset, but if you don't they will feel betrayed.
writing
But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself? Milan Kundera
writing play territory
The novel is a territory where one does not make assertions; it is a territory of play and of hypotheses.