Quotes about writ
writing slogans
Don't write slogans, write truths. Joe Strummer
writing want
You want to write something as good as what you've read. Jodi Picoult
writing ivory-tower three
It's a fallacy that writers have to shut themselves up in their ivory towers to write. I have all these interruptions, three of which I gave birth to. If I was thrown for a loop every time I was distracted I could never get anything done.
writing character shoes
I don't have to live the lives of my characters to write about them. It's about really putting yourself in their shoes.
writing kids hands
I'm always writing, even when I'm not at my desk. I write on my hands. I used to write on my kids' hands, too, but they don't let me any more. When I'm driving I sometimes write all the way up my arms.
writing thinking issues
I think I have sort of gravitated toward issues that I don't know the answers to, because that's what's more interesting for me to write.
writing mean different
The weapons an author has at her disposal are flawed. There are words that feel shapeless and overused. Love, for example. I could write the word love a thousand times and it would mean a thousand different things to different readers.
writing garbage force
When you finally start to write something, do not let yourself stop...even when you are convinced it's the worst garbage ever. This is the biggest caveat for beginning writers. Instead, force yourself to finish what you began, and THEN go back and edit it.
writing might pages
You might not write well every day, but you can always edit a bad page. You can't edit a blank page.
writing people fiction
The good thing about writing fiction is that you can get back at people. John Grisham
writing people stories
I cannot write as well as some people; my talent is in coming up with good stories about lawyers.That is what I am good at.
writing long fiction
I learned that lesson a long time ago. When you write popular fiction, you're going to get bashed by critics.
writing hints stories
An outline is crucial. It saves so much time. When you write suspense, you have to know where you're going because you have to drop little hints along the way. With the outline, I always know where the story is going. So before I ever write, I prepare an outline of 40 or 50 pages.
writing hours desks
Still, something about writing made me spend large hours of my free time at my desk.
writing people age
One of the things I like about making stuff in the age of the Internet, is that people make stuff in response to it. You can see people respond to your work visually or musically or with writing. John Green
writing want revision
But I had to kill you, because the only other possible ending was us doing it, which I wasn't really emotionally ready to write about at ten.' 'Fair enough,' I say. 'But in the revision, I want to get some action.
writing funny-things dancing
The funny thing about writing is that whether you're doing well or doing it poorly, it looks the exact same. That's actually one of the main ways that writing is different from ballet dancing.
writing phrases paper
I never liked writing concluding paragraphs to papers - where you repeat what you've already said with phrases like 'In summation', and 'To conclude'.
writing order broken
I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken.
writing stories needs
The right story needs the right telling.
writing faces spit
Go spit in the face of our inevitable obsolescence and finish your @#$&ng novel.
writing work-out stuff
That's how writing works, at least for me: even the stuff that doesn't work out gets funneled into the stuff that does work out.
writing love-is trying
Every time I try to set something in Chicago, I get intimidated by 'Augie March.' It's easy to set something in Indianapolis - we don't have 'Augie March' here. But I love writing about Chicago, and I love being there and imagining lives in Chicago. I hope to set something there in the future, but it's intimidating.
writing way different
Different authors write different ways, have different relationships with their audiences, and those are all legitimate.
writing bored attention
Read a lot. Read broadly... Tell stories to your friends, and pay attention to when they get bored... Write a lot.
writing reality trying
[My] interest as a writer is not in reflecting actual human speech, which, of course, does not occur in sentences and is totally undiagrammable...My interest is in trying to reflect the reality of experience-how we feel when we talk to each other, how we feel when we're engaging with questions that interest us.
writing imagining-things
We're professional worriers. You're constantly imagining things that could go wrong and then writing about them.
writing doe muggles
If my public existence does anything worthwhile, hopefully it at least demystifies the author a bit, because I know when I was younger I felt like authors were like wizards or something. Turns out they're total muggles.
writing mind comedian
In my mind, I was always a comedian who was going to branch into writing. Patton Oswalt
writing
I like to write, I like to do stand-up, I like to act.
writing thinking rocks
I always hesitate when people call me a musician.I have had no musical training. I can't play anything. I really think of myself as a performer. It's always been writing for me. I evolved with my band in rock 'n' roll through poetry, not through music. Patti Smith
writing thinking hair
If I'm really working on something, writing or painting or really concentrating, I don't even think about brushing my hair.
writing rocks trying
I'd try to write my poems in a certain rhythm. I had my rock 'n' roll stuff for performing and my denser stuff for writing.