Quotes about writ
writing survival survivor
Every woman who writes is a survivor. Tillie Olsen
writing kind audience
Not to have an audience is a kind of death.
writing guy doe
I'm really glad that I'm not Anna because I don't want to be there again. I've been there. But when something does happen to me, whether it's that movie or whether it's actually happened to me, I feel that it's my duty to actually share that with all of you guys. I want to immediately go to my desk and start writing about it. Stevie Nicks
writing trying down-and
I don't go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it's contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me. Steven Wright
writing people skins
We all have a lot of people inside us, yet we get to live only one life. Fiction lets us slip into someone else’s skin, so to speak. That’s why we read novels, and also why we write them–to experience more life. Steven Saylor
writing effort promise
Writing a first novel takes so much effort, with such little promise of result or reward, that it must necessarily be a labor of love bordering on madness.
writing self doe
All writing is an act of self-exploration. Even a grocery list says something about you; how much more does a novel say?
writing years two
I'm not in a race with anybody to make the biggest hit movie anymore. I am just trying to tell stories that I can stay interested in for the two years it takes me to supervise the writing and to direct them. Steven Spielberg
writing my-own
I write about my life and my own experience, but I also write about things that I have no knowledge of whatsoever. Reeve Carney
writing want follow-your-passion
A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write. Regina Brett
writing order phones
If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It's scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.
writing two firsts
In writing if it takes over 30 minutes to write the first two paragraphs select another subject. Raymond Aron
writing purpose literature
Literature in the written sense represents the triumph of language over writing: the subversion of writing for purposes that have little or nothing to do with social and economic control. Robert Bringhurst
writing technology style
Typographic style is founded not on any one technology of typesetting or printing, but on the primitive yet subtle craft of writing.
writing thinking civilization
If language is lost, humanity is lost. If writing is lost, certain kinds of civilization and society are lost, but many other kinds remain - and there is no reason to think that those alternatives are inferior.
writing thinking people
When you think intensely and beautifully, something happens. That something is called poetry. If you think that way and speak at the same time, poetry gets in your mouth. If people hear you, it gets in their ears. If you think that way and write at the same time, then poetry gets written. But poetry exists in any case. The question is only: are you going to take part, and if so, how?
writing sound cinematography
Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds. Robert Bresson
writing shining ordinary
The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.
writing cowboy land
Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other lands, I can describe people and places from actual experience. And for someone with an imagination like me, I could see dinosaurs and lost civilizations in the jungle of Vietnam. Tom Johnson
writing order purple
Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to the early mass market magazine writers earning a half cent a word for their fiction. They had to use every adjective, verb and adverb in the English language to add word count to stories in order to feed and support families.
writing weekend might
I've given up email. Well, almost. At the weekend I set up one of those auto-reply messages, informing my correspondents that I would no longer be checking my emails, and that instead they might like to call or write, as we used to in the olden days. Tom Hodgkinson
writing garden things-in-life
If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated. That's because we lost contact with the important things in life like work that you enjoy, or the garden, nature, your family and friends.
writing interesting creative
What's interesting about writing is the invention, the creative thing. Writing about myself is a yawn. Toni Morrison
writing white able
When I write, I don't translate for white readers.... Dostoevski wrote for a Russian audience, but we're able to read him. If I'm specific, and I don't overexplain, then anyone can overhear me.
writing black-and-white men
...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male and female. It's not so much that women write differently from men, but that black women write differently from white women. Black men don't write very differently from white men.
writing scared knows
Write about something you don't know. And don't be scared, ever.
writing thinking discovery
If writing is thinking and discovery and selection and order and meaning, it is also awe and reverence and mystery and magic.
writing light order
I don't wait to be struck by lightning and I don't need certain slants of light in order to be able to write.
writing self civilization
There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.
writing done world
Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it.
writing house type
I type in one place, but I write all over the house.
writing thinking vision
I think some aspects of writing can be taught. Obviously, you can't teach vision or talent. But you can help with comfort.
writing waiting trying
Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.