Quotes about writ
writing
Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all. Katherine Mansfield
writing recluse
I am a recluse at present & do nothing but write & read & read & write
writing love-to-read
I love to read. But I loved to read a lot longer than I started to love writing. Katherine Paterson
writing voice benefits
Another benefit is that the more I blog, the more I maintain and develop a first-person voice, which translates into a much greater ease with writing personal essays. Kate Christensen
writing self notion
I've always subscribed to the notion that a writer always has something else to say, and the more you write, the more you have to write about, because the act of writing is self-generating.
writing interesting risk
I was also writing in a tradition and trying to do something different with it, something that hadn't necessarily been done before, which was a risk, but it made it interesting. My relationship with food has been complicated and rocky and not always wonderful, and it's a lens through which my entire life and identity are refracted.
writing moon pyramids
All good writing is built one good line at a time. You build a novel the same way you do a pyramid. One word, one stone at a time, underneath a full moon while the fingers bleed. Kate Braverman
writing thinking giving
writing is about doing something very close to the bone. It's about shocking yourself. When I write, I like to make myself cry, laugh - I like to give myself an experience. I see a lot of writing out there that's very safe. But if you're not scaring yourself, why would you think that you'd be scaring anybody else? If you're not coming to a revelation about your place in the universe, why would you think anyone else would?
writing sound logic
I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.
writing illumination flare-up
Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that I'm able to see where to go. I write between these illuminations.
writing heart hunting
Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating.
writing done littles
After I've done the salesman bit, I like to be quiet and retreat, because that's whereI write from. I'm a sort of quiet little person. Kate Bush
writing
Whatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work.
writing attention pay-attention
Writing is seeing. It is paying attention. Kate DiCamillo
writing play pieces
I always write with music. It takes me a while to figure out the right piece of music for what I'm working on. Once I figure it out, that's the only thing I'll play.
writing drawing childhood
Everything I write comes from my childhood in one way or another. I am forever drawing on the sense of mystery and wonder and possibility that pervaded that time of my life.
writing interest wanted
Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.
writing play scary
I've never worked with a co-author before [Alison McGhee]. Writing for me is a pretty scary thing, so it was a huge comfort to have someone in the room working with me. It became less like work and more like play.
writing rewriting screenplays
I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.
writing terror uncertainty
When I do it [writing] by myself, there's a lot more terror and uncertainty.
writing two goal
My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.
writing thinking joy
I think we sent Tony Fucile pictures of ourselves, photos from like when we were seven years old. That's what he worked from. He captured exactly what we looked like. I'd love to do another one with Alison, not just for the joy of writing, but also for the joy of watching Tony bring it to life with his illustrations. I'm hoping at BEA, or ALA, I'll get to meet Tony and shake his hand and thank him.
writing cities community
I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like. Karin Fossum
writing wind southern
Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next Gone With the Wind. Karin Slaughter
writing college virginia
I fell in love with Virginia Woolf in college. I especially admire how well she writes about daily life, how she captures so much meaning and consequence in the smallest details of a day. Karen Thompson Walker
writing adventure exploring-the-world
Writing is like a rollercoaster ride for me, an adventure. I love exploring the world through playing people who are absolutely nothing like me. Karen Traviss
writing bourne
Actors can write and produce too. Then when I was working on Jason Bourne - having had that experience - instead of going back to my trailer and being separate from everyone else, I would sit behind the monitor and watch Paul Greengrass work and be much more included in the process. That was new for me and really enriching. Julia Stiles
writing perspective joy
Bill Pullman is older than Aaron Eckhart - although I was older too - and the age difference changes the play. My perspective on those issues had changed a lot. Without going into nerdy details about that play, there was something that still stuck with me. I still had the same joy in that dialogue and David Mamet's rhythm in terms of his writing. I felt like there was still something to explore.
writing editors research
Although I still write, research and investigate, my role is primarily that of a publisher and editor-in-chief who organises and directs other journalists. Julian Assange
writing thinking rights
If instituted, the TPP's IP regime would trample over individual rights and free expression, as well as ride roughshod over the intellectual and creative commons. If you read, write, publish, think, listen, dance, sing or invent; if you farm or consume food; if you're ill now or might one day be ill, the TPP has you in its crosshairs.
writing dark years
The imagination doesn't crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever's there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes nothing at all. And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool, dark attic, which the writer nervously visits from time to time; and yes, oh dear, while he's been hard at work downstairs, up in the attic there are puckering skins, warning spots, a sudden brown collapse and the sprouting of snowflakes. What can he do about it? Julian Barnes
writing fiction world
When you are writing fiction your task is to reflect the fullest complications of the world
writing literature realizing
Well, they each seem to do one thing well enough, but fail to realize that literature depends on doing several things well at the same time.