Quotes about writ
writing thinking hard-times
I tend to have a hard time working on pieces long before they're due. That's why I think the fact that I write a column is really good for me - the column has to be done, and there's no getting around it. James Surowiecki
writing thinking perfect
I started in business journalism from the outside, so when I started writing about markets and business, I was struck by the fact that markets seemed to work well even though people are often irrational, lack good information and are not perfect in the way they think about decisions.
writing men thinking
One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case. James Payn
writing fiction stories
If it's commercial fiction that you want to write, it's story, story, story. You've got to get a story where if you tell it to somebody in a paragraph, they'll go, "Tell me more." And then when you start to write it, they continue to want to read more. And if you don't, it won't work. James Patterson
writing larger-than-life
I write larger than life. It's what I do.
writing joy four
I guess I write four or five hours a day, but I do it seven days a week. It's very disciplined, yes, but it's joy for me.
writing paris pages
The writing in Mission to Paris, sentence after sentence, page after page, is dazzling. If you are a John le Carr fan, this is definitely a novel for you.
writing trying stories
Stop trying to write sentences and start trying to write stories.
writing want rooms
When I write I pretend I'm telling a story to someone in the room and I don't want them to get up until I'm finished.
writing blow car
I'm big on having a blistering pace. That's one of the hallmarks of what I do, and that's not easy. I never blow up cars and things like that, so it's something else that keeps the suspense flowing. I try not to write a chapter that isn't going to turn on the movie projector in your head.
writing want diaries
If you want to write for yourself, get a diary. If you want to write for your friends, get a blog. If you want to write for others...become an author.
writing loafing productive
Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life. James Norman Hall
writing thinking ideas
If you take a few days to write an outline, you're just making up scenes that you think will work, that you think will be interesting. But as you write it, other ideas occur - better ideas that have to do with what you're writing. Elmore Leonard
writing needs information
All the information you need can be given in dialogue.
writing thinking needs
have a much harder time writing stories than novels. I need the expansiveness of a novel and the propulsive energy it provides. When I think about scene - and when I teach scene writing - I'm thinking about questions. What questions are raised by a scene? What questions are answered? What questions persist from scene to scene to scene? Edan Lepucki
writing boundaries connected
I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend ecclesial boundaries. Henri Nouwen
writing play journal
I keep a journal, and every day I write down one great play that I had that day. I don't write down any negatives. Heather O'Reilly
writing butterfly blood
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of blood-relationship of the species. As the laws of nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole world. Henry Walter Bates
writing men names
I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter. Henry Ward Beecher
writing long stories
Whatever's happening today, remember it is only ONE SCENE in a long movie. Don't treat it like it's the whole story. Keep writing the story. Henry Cloud
writing love-is names
Other-Love is writing's first name. Helene Cixous
writing stranger bizarre
I find it utterly bizarre that total strangers write about your life in a completely fictional manner. Helena Christensen
writing people hurtful
For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person from writing whatever they want. What's harmful and hurtful is when people speculate. John Krasinski
writing reflection self
Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret. Johann Sebastian Bach
writing age occupation
Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23. Johanna Lindsey
written
Every single lyric I've ever written I meant. John Lydon
writing light manhattan
I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing. John Banville
writer
The more you live, the better writer you are. Meg Rosoff
writing simple more-time
If you don't have time to read, then you have more time to write. Simple as that. Stephen King
writing thinking political
I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. Diane Wakoski
writing down-and pages
The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page. David Almond
writing simple psychics
'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'. David Allen
writing trying together
With these Funny or Die videos, I do everything for them. I write them, act in them, and co-direct them with my buddy Brian McGinn, who I grew up with. We also edit them together. We're working on a small scale of Internet videos, but we're slowly trying to make them become a bigger thing. Dave Franco