Quotes about writ
writing expression
Writing isn't something I do, writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me. Wayne Dyer
writing important needs
I need to write down my observations. Even the tiniest ones; they're the most important. Tove Jansson
writing long paper
The one thing a writer has to have is a pencil and some paper. That's enough, so long as she knows that she and she alone is in charge of that pencil, and responsible, she and she alone, for what it writes on that paper. Ursula K. Le Guin
writing mean kids
In many college English courses the words “myth” and “symbol” are given a tremendous charge of significance. You just ain’t no good unless you can see a symbol hiding, like a scared gerbil, under every page. And in many creative writing course the little beasts multiply, the place swarms with them. What does this Mean? What does that Symbolize? What is the Underlying Mythos? Kids come lurching out of such courses with a brain full of gerbils. And they sit down and write a lot of empty pomposity, under the impression that that’s how Melville did it.
writing thinking way
It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
writing stories plot
The story is not in the plot but in the telling.
writing thinking names
I don’t think ‘science fiction’ is a very good name for it, but it’s the name that we’ve got. It is different from other kinds of writing, I suppose, so it deserves a name of its own. But where I can get prickly and combative is, if I’m just called a sci-fi writer. I’m not. I’m a novelist and poet. Don’t shove me into your damn pigeonhole, where I don’t fit, because I’m all over. My tentacles are coming out of the pigeonhole in all directions.
writing down-and
You sit down and you do it, and you do it, and you do it, until you have learned to do it.
writing giving mind
Readers, after all, are making the world with you. You give them the materials, but it's the readers who build that world in their own minds.
writing noise done
Writing makes no noise, except groans, and it can be done everywhere, and it is done alone.
writing hard-work waiting
All makers must leave room for the acts of the spirit. But they have to work hard and carefully, and wait patiently, to deserve them.
writing library stories
There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.
writing class focus
Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the craft can. But a workshop where the trade is the principal focus of interest is not a writing workshop. It is a business class.
writing doors fiction
I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more experimental writing, more literary writing, riskier writing. It wasn't all imitation Heinlein or Asimov. And of course, women were creeping in, infiltrating. Infesting the premises.
writing trying showing-up
I do try to separate my personal activism - showing up at a demonstration or something - from what I write.
writing practice voice
What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.
writing fiction preacher
I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.
writing soul share
The great authors share their souls with us- "literally.
writing thinking self
I think there is no way to write about being alone. To write is to tell something to somebody to communicate to others. . . . Solitude is noncommunication, the absence of others, the presence of a self sufficient to itself.
writing technology fiction
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
writing heart my-heart
I write with all my heart
writing virginia law
There was one person who greatly and directly benefited my career--my agent Virginia Kidd. From 1968 to the late nineties she represented all my work, in every field except poetry. I could send her an utterly indescribable story, and she'd sell it to Playboy or the Harvard Law Review or Weird Tales or The New Yorker--she knew where to take it. She never told me what to write or not write, she never told me, That won't sell, and she never meddled with my prose.
writing people secret
Well, the secret to writing is writing. It's only a secret to people who don't want to hear it. Writing is how you be a writer.
writing stories want
I have no control over my writing. I have lots of good intentions, but no control. There's a story that wants to be told.
writing people texting
I don't take part in texting and those other things myself, so I don't really know if people put as much thought into messaging as they used to into writing letters. Tyne Daly
writing heavy psychoanalytic
And I was troubled by the heavy-handed prose of so much psychoanalytic writing, which seemed drowned in its own concepts. Robert Jay Lifton
writing matter depressive
At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle. Robert Hunter
writing ideas stories
I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated. Roddy Doyle
writing thinking pages
When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.
writing comedian littles
If you can't write your own material, you have very little chance of making it as a comedian. Rodney Dangerfield
writing math college
If you don't take enough math classes or science classes or writing intensive classes, you're not going to be prepared to compete in college or the workplace -- no matter what your diploma says. Rod Blagojevich
writing hair bridges
Of what is lost, irretrievably lost, all I wish to recover is the daily availability of my writing, lines capable of grasping me by the hair and lifting me up when I'm at the end of my strength. (Significant, said the foreigner.) Odes to the human and the divine. Let my writing be like the verses of by Leopardi that Daniel Biga recited on a Nordic bridge to gird himself with courage. Roberto Bolano
writing thinking hats
I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, "I will tell you a story," and then he passes the hat. Robertson Davies