Quotes about writ
writing water gossip
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge. Napoleon Hill
writing impossible
You write to me that it's impossible. The word is not French. Napoleon Bonaparte
writing men vanity
To write history one must be more than a man, since the author who holds the pen of this great justiciary must be free from all preoccupation of interest or vanity.
writing race greek
Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else.
writing slang
I write in American slang. Norman Spinrad
writing people giving
For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he can exploit; for the serious good writer it releases his experiences or emotions from himself and incorporates them into literature, where they belong. Northrop Frye
writing aphorism translate
Most of my writing consists of an attempt to translate aphorisms into continuous prose.
writing looks use
We have to look at the figures of speech a writer uses, his images and symbols, to realize that underneath all the complexity of human life that uneasy stare at an alien nature is still haunting us, and the problem of surmounting it still with us.
writing character elude-you
To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you... a truth... that used to elude you. Norman Mailer
writing mean thinking
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. Norman MacCaig
writing house freedom-of-speech
When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free. Orhan Pamuk
writing giving secret
I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public. O. Henry
writing alive theory
I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing. Octavia Butler
writing
I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing,
writing proportion fling
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us. Emile M. Cioran
writing painful found
I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write. Ellen Glasgow
writing common
I always find something in common with my protagonist, particularly when I write in the first person. Emily Giffin
writing character trying
I write about relationships and I try to create real-life characters.
written
It's been unbelievable. We couldn't have written a better script. Mark Johnson
writing secret good-writing
Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing. Mark Haddon
writing animal humanity
If by chance I seated myself to write, she very slyly, very tenderly, seeking protection and caresses, would softly take her place on my knee and follow the comings and goings of my pen - sometimes effacing, with an unintentional stroke of her paw, lines of whose tenor she disapproved. Pierre Loti
writing want helping
I don't recommend being a bachelor, but it helps if you want to write. Nelson Algren
writing knows
Any writer who knows what he's doing isn't doing very much.
writing blow creative
You don't write a novel out of sheer pity any more than you blow a safe out of a vague longing to be rich. A certain ruthlessness and a sense of alienation from society is as essential to creative writing as it is to armed robbery.
writing thinking spy
I think it's more difficult now to write a spy thriller with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Many authors have tried, but few have succeeded in capturing the interest of readers. Nelson DeMille
writing names someday
I used the pen name because I knew I wanted to write better novels under my own name someday,
writing hobbies made
Writing doesn't leave much time for hobbies, unless you consider that I began writing as a hobby and have made the hobby into a profession.
writing firsts world
The world has gotten smaller and more accessible since I first started writing in the 70's.
writing hands pads
I do write my manuscripts by hand, in pencil on legal pads. Then they are typed on a word processor by my typist.
writing thinking machines
I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.
writing character long
Alice Munro is a particular kind of short story writer in that she writes long, character-driven short stories. Nell Freudenberger
writing car music-is
I can't listen to music when I'm writing. I like music best in a car or on the train.
writing thinking important
I don't think it's important for everyone necessarily, and I totally respect that because everyone writes differently. Neko Case