Quotes about writ
writing cutting fats
Writing for me is cutting out the fat and getting to the meaning. James McBride
writing band making-money
I like all music. Well, I don't like music that was created to make money. I don't really like bands that don't write their own music James Marsters
writing enthusiasm said
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. Emily Dickinson
writing men arms
Victor Young had been hired to write the score for the dances of The Ten Commandments but he became very ill. You were then hired to write the score. But at the same time you'd written The Man with the Golden Arm score. Elmer Bernstein
writing paper matter
A pen connects you to the paper. It definitely matters. Elmore Leonard
writing use way
Never use an adverb to modify the verb 'said' . . . he admonished gravely. To use an adverb this way (or almost any way) is a mortal sin. The writer is now exposing himself in earnest, using a word that distracts and can interrupt the rhythm of the exchange.
writing stories sense-of-humor
I started out of course with Hemingway when I learned how to write. Until I realized Hemingway doesn't have a sense of humor. He never has anything funny in his stories.
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.
writing stories invisible
It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing.
writing thinking years
After 58 years you'd think writing would get easier. It doesn't. If you're lucky, you become harder to please. That's all right, it's still a pleasure.
writing trying reader
I try to leave out the parts readers skip.
writing bucks posterity
I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.
writing sound
Everyone has his own sound. I'm not going to presume how to tell anybody how to write.
writing narrative jazz
I'm very much aware in the writing of dialogue, or even in the narrative too, of a rhythm. There has to be a rhythm with it … Interviewers have said, you like jazz, don’t you? Because we can hear it in your writing. And I thought that was a compliment.
writing important sound
My most important rule is one that sums up the 10: If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
writing exclamation-points two
Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
writing needs information
All the information you need can be given in dialogue.
writing people trying
Try not to write the parts that people skip.
writing good-day four
I used to be able to write five pages a day, every day, no problem. Now a good day is five or four pages, and that's from 9:30 A.M. until 6 P.M.
writing sin adverbs
Using adverbs is a mortal sin.
writing inspire sound
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
writing want reader
I don't want the reader to be aware of me as the writer.
writing may narrative
If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it. Or, if proper usage gets in the way, it may have to go. I can't allow what we learned in English composition to disrupt the sound and rhythm of the narrative.
writing advice important
My most important piece of advice to all you would-be writers: when you write, try to leave out all the parts readers skip.
writing people different
I had to introduce a lot of people into my writing environment which I thought at first I would find really difficult, but I actually found that I loved it. It meant that I was meeting different people; it meant that I was expressing myself in different ways. Ella Henderson
writing emotion certain
Words are impotent to describe certain emotions. Ella Maillart
writing able
I've never been able to write for stand-up. Elayne Boosler
writing attractive-things difficult
Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write. Edward St Aubyn
writing want favour
I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the author would just feed on the reviews - so I'm in favour of starving him.
writing men wife
If you are a married man resident in Cuba, you cannot get a passport to go to the next town without your wife's permission in writing. Edward Burnett Tylor
writing humiliation
To write is a humiliation. Edward Dahlberg
writing evil sin
We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
writing men luck
What has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when he makes a good phrase or says something truthful.