Quotes about writ
writing afterlife firsts
Nothing you write, if you hope to be good, will ever come out as you first hoped. Lillian Hellman
writing important tables
It's very important, at least to me as a writer, that there be some rules on the table when I'm writing. Rules come from genres. You're writing in a genre, there are rules, which is great because then you can break the rules. That's when really exciting things happen. Lev Grossman
writing able ifs
Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything.
writing optimistic fiction
More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.
writing special firsts
There's a special gut-check moment the first time you write a scene in which somebody casts a spell.
writing magician sequels
I never thought about doing a sequel when I was actually writing 'The Magicians.' I only ever considered it a standalone.
writing advice writing-advice
Don't take anyone's writing advice too seriously.
writing media scratches
Fanfiction is what literature might look like if it were reinvented from scratch after a nuclear apocalypse by a band of brilliant pop-culture junkies trapped in a sealed bunker. They don't do it for money. That's not what it's about. The writers write it and put it up online just for the satisfaction. They're fans, but they're not silent, couchbound consumers of media. The culture talks to them, and they talk back to the culture in its own language.
writing revolution january
[Vladimir] Lenin died in January, 1924; three months later [Joseph] Stalin expounded in writing Lenin's conception of the proletarian revolution. Leon Trotsky
writing technique cases
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it.
writing records radio
We definitely set out to make a great 'radio' record. We set out to write great hooky choruses-but with verses that said something. LeAnn Rimes
writing inspire listening
Even listening to a lot of other music inspires me, too. Like I'll find something and be like, "I love this group!" And I want to write something that's kind of like this.
writing men letters
I had never thought of myself as a dramatist, and, for really good technical results, the thought came too late: a man of letters has become too wordy to write economically for the stage. Laurence Housman
writing years want
If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.
writing play musician
I write and play music. I'd like to be a musician at some point. Laurence Fox
writing men fellow-man
Write me as one who loves his fellow men. Leigh Hunt
writing advice important
The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve. Lauren Tarshis
writing emotional harder
Writing is such a weird emotional thing. It's hard. If you sit down with a plan to write something, it's going to be harder. Lauren Miller
writing doors land
And they just slam the door. And they don't peek into that land any more. And they forget that teens and tweens are people, absolutely just as much as adults are. And their problems may play out on a smaller scale, but the things they go through are equally as valid as a CEO trying to figure out how to deal with a crisis at work. I just write for teens because I love 'em. Lauren Myracle
writing opposites ideas
Additionally, Liesl and Po is the embodiment of what writing has always been for me at its purest and most basic--not a paycheck, certainly; not an idea, even; and not an escape. Actually, it is the opposite of an escape; it is a way back in, a way to enter and make sense of a world that occasionally seems harsh and terrible and mystifying. (From the "Author's Note" at the end). Lauren Oliver
writing worry make-sense
Don't worry about what you're writing or whether it's good or even whether it makes sense.
writing wind together
Poetry isn't like any writing I've ever heard before. I don't understand all of it, just bits of images, sentences that appear half-finished, all fluttering together like brightly colored ribbons in the wind.
writing tired sick
I get so sick and tired of Wikipedia. People write their own crap on there. Larry the Cable Guy
writing code writing-code
Many days I don't write any code at all, and some days I spend all day writing code. Larry Wall
writing use sentences
I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.
writing enough glad
If you write something wrong enough, I'll be glad to make up a new witticism just for you.
writing firsts computer
What about WRITING it first and rationalizing it afterwards?
writing recipes ingredients
Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.
writing dark voice
I used to write as an escape. There's no escape. There's just me sending my voice into the dark, waiting for an echo. Laird Barron
writing acting lucky
I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct. Lake Bell
writing tired mean
I hope, my career is never predictable. And my interests are diverse in that way. I feel very lucky that when I'm burnt out of acting I take to the pen and I write something I want to direct. And then when I'm tired of taking on too much responsibility as a director I then look for an acting gig. And I've made it very clear that I'm interested in voiceover work. I mean, I'm always looking for voiceover gigs. I love that.
writing comedy notes
What's the trick to writing a genuinely funny comedy? The trick is therapy. Take notes.
writing order want
Literary success of any enduring kind is made by refusing to do what publishers want, by refusing to write what the public wants, by refusing to accept any popular standard, by refusing to write anything to order. Lafcadio Hearn