Quotes about writ
writing ties life-is
The great thing about writing compared to life is getting to tie things up. Kate Atkinson
writing firsts said
Everyone said, 'Well, you're very old for a first novel,' and I said, 'How do you write when you haven't lived? How do you write when you have no experience? How do you write straight out of university?
writing museums awards
I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.
writing thinking bob
I don't think I have any right to say I belong to that [Woody Guthrie/Bob Dylan tradition]. I think that's something that eventually maybe you get inducted into. I'm just experimenting. Justin Townes Earle
writing views opposites
I started writing a novel from the monster's point of view. It has its own difficulties but, I'm ashamed to say, it's much easier writing from a psychopath's point of view than from that of their empathetic opposite. Justine Larbalestier
writing able six
I'm almost back to being able to write as much as six hours a day .
writing needs blown-away
I discovered the writing of Kirsty Eagar and was blown away. Everyone needs to read her now.
writing therapy studios
Just writing and being in the studio was like therapy for me. Justin Timberlake
writing editors age
The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help.
writing office rabbits
They put me in an office with the TV set up and said "Here's the tape. When you're finished writing your copy for the little trailer you're going to do, you'll come out and show it to us and we set you up to go edit it." I turned it on and it was just this hardcore film and I was like, "Oh my God, I've fallen down the rabbit hole." Julie Davis
writing views trying
For me, no matter how serious the subject is, when I try to write about it, I have to write about it from a comic point of view. It's just the way it comes out.
writing doors people
I guess I'm not that aware of such a big fan base. I have a few core people who write me no matter what I'm doing, but I hardly have sacks of mail being dropped on my door! Julie Bowen
writing editing acting
Basically, editing is done in rehearsal and in the writing process and in the acting, so it's very, very tricky, very, very tricky. Julie Delpy
writing fighting thinking
I think anyone who has had a fight and who's a very good observer of the situation and people's behavior is capable of writing a fight. But you do start thinking about writing during the fights that you have with your partner.
writing joy able
I would assume that there is a greater amount of joy for you in being able to write and help produce your own stuff and make a decent living, but not get rich versus always doing the other stuff that you don't write, and make more money.
writing hands people
Writing is more than anything a compulsion, like some people wash their hands thirty times a day for fear of awful consequences if they do not. It pays a whole lot better than this type of compulsion, but it is no more heroic. Julie Burchill
writing animal sometimes
I do ask myself sometimes, what am I doing writing about animals that talk like we do? But I guess it's okay if it brings across a point. Julie Andrews
writing interesting stories
Surely the whole point of writing your own life story is to be as honest as you possibly can, revealing everything about yourself that is most private and probably most interesting for that very reason. Judith Krantz
writing giving trying
The only way to find out if you can write is to set aside a certain period every day and try. Save enough money to give yourself six months to be a full-time writer. Work every day and the pages will pile up.
writing years presidential
I met Jon Lovett, who was just coming off of three years of being a presidential speech writer and had just arrived here to be a comedy writer in Hollywood. I thought he was super green, in terms of this world, but he knows so much about the world that we're attempting to write about. Josh Gad
writing thinking light
If I was painting or writing, I wouldn't veer away from things because they seemed unsavoury to me. So as an actor, I kind of think the same way. I should do things that are different and interesting and shed light on the craziness of the world. Josh Hartnett
writing prejudice topics
IT is difficult to speak or write with becoming moderation or propriety, on topics to which we are biased by prejudice, interest, or even principle. Joseph Lancaster
writing people citizens
But if writing about people who are not yourself is illegitimate, then the only legitimate work is autobiography; and as a reader and a citizen, I don’t want to live in that world. Katherine Boo
writing stories minutes
You are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day. Katherine Center
writing thinking people
But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on. Katherine Dunn
writing numbers healthy
I used to weigh myself every day at a certain time of day. Then I would write down the number and measure my body fat. It wasn't a healthy way to live. Katherine Heigl
writing thinking water
I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water. Katherine Anne Porter
writing imagination perception
Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself.
writing waiting mind
You have to wait for your mind to catch up with whatever it is it’s working on; then you can write a novel. James M. Cain
writing college typewriters
A lot of novelists start late-Conrad, Pirandello, even Mark Twain. When you're young, chess is all right, and music and poetry. But novel-writing is something else. It has to be learned, but it can't be taught. This bunkum and stinkum of college creative writing courses! The academics don't know that the only thing you can do for someone who wants to write is to buy him a typewriter.
writing night ifs
If your writing doesn`t keep you up at night, it won`t keep anyone else up either".
writing wish reason
I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.
writing problem foreign-policy
Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.