Quotes about writ
writing joy rewards
There's a joy in writing short stories, a wonderful sense of reward when you pull certain things off. Tobias Wolff
writing information teach
You don't teach information in a writing workshop.
writing cost mythology
Writers cannot let themselves be servants of the official mythology. They have to, whatever the cost, say what truth they have to say.
writing doe littles
But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to live with, but it's a goad and does keep you alert and restless.
writing self years
In writing you work toward a result you won't see for years, and can't be sure you'll ever see. It takes stamina and self-mastery and faith. It demands those things of you, then gives them back with a little extra, a surprise to keep you coming. It toughens you and clears your head. I could feel it happening. I was saving my life with every word I wrote, and I knew it.
writing thinking people
There are very few professions in which people just sit down and think hard for five or six hours a day all by themselves. Of course it's why you want to become a writer — because you have the liberty to do that, but once you have the liberty you also have the obligation to do it.
writing enemy life-is
Time, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing.
writing thinking moments
I think for a young journalist, it's better to write for the Web at the moment than it is for print Tina Brown
writing thinking people
Nothing is better for a young journalist than to go and write about something that other people don't know about. If you can afford to send yourself to some foreign part, I still think that's by far the best way to break in
writing romance historical
My final historical romance came out December 2005. While I enjoyed writing medieval romances, I was also dying to write something with more edge. Tina St. John
writing stuff snl
You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone. Tina Fey
writing long television
[Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot it; it's on TV.
writing night preparation
Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before.
writing opportunity thinking
I definitely think of myself still as a writer first, and feel like - with the lucky exception of this - any acting opportunity I've gotten is usually because I was writing on it. This is like a wonderful vacation. If you've ever sat in a writers' room it's the most disgusting, tortuous place, so it's a treat to be treated like a movie actor.
writing men way
I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.
writing
Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable.
writing rocks trying
"30 Rock" is over, so I definitely aspire to write another movie again; eventually, will try to pitch something for television again.
writing two together
I do my best writing between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m.. Almost every friend I have who is a consistently productive writer, does their best writing between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. My quota is two crappy pages per day. I keep it really low so I'm not so intimidated that I never get started. I will do the gathering of interviews and research throughout the day. I'll get all my notes and materials together and then I'll do the synthesis between 10 p.m. to bed, which is usually 4 or 5 a.m. Tim Ferriss
writing paper pieces
Writing is thought crystalized on a piece of paper, which can then be reviewed.
writing editing
Caesar is not above the grammarians. Tiberius
writing expression interesting
Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words Thurston Moore
writing style quality
Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing. Tibor Fischer
writing thinking states
Learning to write is learning to think. You don't know anything clearly unless you can state it in writing. S. I. Hayakawa
writing hands believer
I loathe writing. On the other hand I'm a great believer in money. S. J. Perelman
writing nineteen kind
There are nineteen words in Yiddish that convey gradations of disparagement, from a mild, fluttery helplessness to a state of downright, irreconcilable brutishness. All of them can be usefully employed to pinpoint the kind of individuals I write about.
writing trying elements
I'm trying to put more elements of the essay into my writing. Ryszard Kapuscinski
writing two my-boyfriend
My boyfriend suggested I write two pages a day. He wouldn't take me out if I hadn't done my two pages. That's how I wrote my second novel. S. E. Hinton
writing years people
All of a sudden it felt like people were peering over my shoulder, wondering what I would write next. I was blocked for four years.
writing thinking outsiders
I think that The Outsiders was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.
writing thinking two
If you want to be a writer, I have two pieces of advice. One is to be a reader. I think that's one of the most important parts of learning to write. The other piece of advice is 'Just do it!' Don't think about it, don't agonize, sit down and write.
writing thinking narrators
I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
writing want advise
I advise writing to oneself. If you don't want to read it, nobody else is going to read it.
writing arrogant alive
I've always thought it was arrogant to write about yourself, particularly when you're still alive. Russell Means