Quotes about writ
writing giving want
You don't want to get that sort of sound in your writing that boing that gives you away. Garrison Keillor
writing dark talking
For me, the monologue was the favorite thing I had done in radio. It was based on writing, but in the end it was radio, it was standing up and leaning forward into the dark and talking, letting words come out of you.
writing thinking people
I think that if writers are tempted to do other things, they ought to go do other things. They should not write if they don't feel like it. I say this as a competitor. I am not interested in encouraging people who are in competition with me.
writing thinking editors
We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the words down, trying to get them right, operating by some inner sense of pitch and proportion, and from time to time, we stick the stuff in an envelope and ship it to an editor.
writing ironic young-writers
A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.
writing tragic
The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is to say, the less time there is to say it. Gabrielle Roy
writing cutting knives
It is my contention that a really great novel is made with a knife and not a pen. A novelist must have the intestinal fortitude to cut out even the most brilliant passage so long as it doesn't advance the story. Frank Yerby
writing soul suffering
O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter. Francois Fenelon
writing editors differences
I never wanted to be an editor. I never wanted to be a boss. I just wanted to write, and it didn't make any difference whether it was fiction or nonfiction or short stories or whatever. I just - that's what I was destined to do. Frank Deford
writing giving people
I don't understand blogs. People used to write to make money, no? You didn't give it away. I have nothing against blogs. I don't have a problem with them. But it's like, 'What are you doing? Why aren't you working?
writing novelists
I had thought of writing, actually, and that later on I'd be a novelist. Francois Truffaut
writing creative suits
I write whenever it suits me. During a creative period I write every day; a novel should not be interrupted. When I cease to be carried along, when I no longer feel as though I were taking down dictation, I stop. Francois Mauriac
writing police houston
Former police chief of Houston once said of me: “Frank Abagnale could write a check on toilet paper, drawn on the Confederate States Treasury, sign it ‘U.R. Hooked’ and cash it at any bank in town, using a Hong Kong driver’s license for identification. Frank Abagnale
writing easy
It is easy to write unthinking music.
writing wish sometimes
Who often reads, will sometimes wish to write. George Crabbe
writing creative acting
I've had some success at writing and directing, and I like it. It's infinitely more creative than just acting, and I have things I want to say and do. George Clooney
writing people
I would like to shift more into writing for and producing people. Geddy Lee
writing thinking different
I would like to think that Ben and myself have begun a partnership that will take us into different areas of music that we can continue to write, enjoy and keep me involved with music other then what I do with RUSH.
writing first-love firsts
I love to write. It's my first love.
writing elderly years
Some writing and production projects will be a great way to spend my elderly rock years.
writing careers isolated-places
I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time. Lois McMaster Bujold
writing best-things including
One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.
writing indifference writing-poems
When I am asked how I began writing poems, I talk about the indifference of nature. Lisel Mueller
writing language wells
Well, language seems to be something that obsesses me. I'm always writing about it.
writing facts autobiography
Everything is autobiography, even if one writes something that is totally objective. The fact that it's a subject that seizes you makes it autobiographical.
writing college thinking
When I was in college, I did do some writing of poetry, somewhat inspired, I think at that time, by Carl Sandburg, because English was still relatively new to me, and Sandburg, of course, wrote in a very easy-to-understand, very colloquial and informal manner.
writing italian play
If Shakespeare had lived in our age, he would have been sued for writing Romeo And Juliet, because as everybody knows, he plagiarized that from an Italian play. Lloyd Kaufman
writing thinking bullets
I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath. Lynn Abbey
writing ideas always-trying
If you write, one of the questions you're always trying to answer is, Where do you get your ideas? And, if you write, you know how pointless a question this is and how difficult it is to answer.
writing discouraging blinded
That bedrock faith that I could write was what blinded me to attempts to discourage me.
writing goal buckets
My goal on my bucket list is to write a romantic comedy movie. Lynda Barry
writing names missing
You keep seeing your picture on posters that you are missing but you're not. That'd be weird, right? Or say you look down at the sidewalk and earthworms are spelling your name. Or you open a peanut bag and the 'hello' is written in your writing on the inside of the shell. Would that weird ya?
writing fate order
If you can stand to wait 24 hours before you decide the fate of what you have written - either good or bad - you're more likely to see that invisible thing that is invisible for the first few days in any new writing. We just can't know what all is in a sentence until there are several sentences to follow it. Pages of writing need more pages in order to be known, chapters need more chapters.