Quotes about writ
writing doe warfare
Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story is what one does without question. But beyond that, any writer worth his/her hire knows that all writing, one way or another, is subversive. It is guerrilla warfare against the status quo. Harlan Ellison
writing holy millionaire
You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.
writing audience knows
I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.
writing becoming tricks
The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
writing intelligent praise
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.
writing reality glasses
There is no nobler chore in the craft of writing than holding up the mirror of reality and turning it slightly, so we have a new and different perception of the commonplace, the everyday, the 'normal,' the obvious. People are reflected in the glass. The fantasy situation into which you thrust them is the mirror itself. And what we are shown should illuminate and alter our perception of the world around us. Failing that, you have failed totally.
writing absolutes kate
Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes. Harlan Coben
writing house fax
My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.
writing bores-you fire
I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
writing littles busy
Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
writing would-be boring
I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
writing care annoying
The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it. A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
writing voice should
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.
writing trying mountain
Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer.
writing thinking
The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time.
writing symphony way
If I weren't the way I am, I shouldn't write my symphonies. Gustav Mahler
writing thinking boring
If you think you're boring your audience, go slower not faster.
writing symphony world
To write a symphony is, for me, to construct a world.
writing men order
A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man. Gustave Flaubert
writing thinking
There comes a point at which you stop writing and think all the more
writing thinking make-you-think
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women
writing calm restraint
Come, let’s be calm: no one incapable of restraint was ever a writer.
writing one-day shells
One day, I shall explode like an artillery shell and all my bits will be found on the writing table.
writing sea wade
The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.
writing hair shining
Prose is like hair; it shines with combing.
writing long talent
Talent is long patience.
writing giving wish
Whatever the thing you wish to say, there is but one word to express it, but one verb to give it movement, but one adjective to qualify it; you must seek until you find this noun, this verb, this adjective.
writing paris giving
Stationery is addictive. I get mine made in Paris at Benetton, and writing on it gives me a strange thrill. Graydon Carter
writing years two
I've been with Life now for seventeen years and I have written several articles for them and will be doing more writing and do at least two assignments a year besides my writing. Gordon Parks
writing two interesting
It was very interesting time to be in England. Even at that point [John] Lennon and [Paul] McCartney influenced my writing. I thought, "maybe there is a huck or two in here I haven't thought of". Gordon Lightfoot
writing denver sitting
I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.
writing thinking years
I love jazz. I still do. Dave Brubeck and Stan Getz are so good. I took a notification course in Jazz Orchestration. It wasn't a grandiose as you'd think but I did have to to go to Los Angeles to do it and get an understanding of the keyboard because the keyboard became my tool and I used it a lot in transposing and composing. All the flats and time values. I spent a year doing that because in those days you had to be able to write your own music and read sheets.
writing people want
I won't let people write anything they want to about me. Gordon Ramsay