Quotes about writ
writing gps surfing
Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump. Etgar Keret
writing stories language
When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.
writing emotion reason
The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.
writing israel roles
In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
writing thinking stories
I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
writing army training
I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.
writing mean different
Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it just means that you're hungry for life. There are so many things you want to do.
writing speech littles
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.
writing stories may
I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough.
writing broken legs
My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write. Ernst Mach
writing society common
anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently. Ernst Mayr
writing thinking documentaries
I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I had trouble finishing things. Errol Morris
writing envy different
I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.
writing objectivity i-can
I write with as much objectivity as I can. Ernest Gaines
writing trying pages
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
writing wife neglect
I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.
writing thinking would-be
I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do. Christina Romer
writing stranger dear
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought. Gertrude Stein
writing thinking
Thinking visually is my starting point, and then the writing happens. Gerard Way
writing civilization progress
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization. Gerald Durrell
writing hands use
About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other. Harper Lee
writing should-have done
The day it comes out, there's already things that you start to go, 'Oh, I should have done that a little differently.' You start to make a list in your head. I actually write things down -- what I'm going to do next time. Howie Day
writing thinking different
When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do. Howard Nemerov
writing paper firsts
Writing is like the relationship with your bowels. First you can, then you can't. Finally, you must. Only then should you reach for the paper.
writing icy said
I have begun writing what I have said I'd never write, a memoir ("I am not my own subject," I used to say with icy superiority). Gore Vidal
writing thinking mind
I don't write with any audience in mind. I just write. I take a chance on the audience. That's what I did originally, and I think it's worked--in the sense that I find there is an audience. Harold Pinter
writing names challenges
When a director writes, there's a compulsory arbitration. You have a right to challenge any of the arbitrators, but they pick three of four arbitrators who read all the drafts with no names attached and then allocate credit. Harold Ramis
writing stories next
There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
writing color people
I'm a storyteller, I'm not a literary writer, and I don't want to be a literary writer. People say to me, "Oh, when are you going to write something different?" What? I don't want to write anything different. I'm writing relationships between people, all different colors, all different sizes, all different sexual orientations, and that's what I want to do. Jackie Collins
writing way stranger
I am writing for myself and strangers. This is the only way that I can do it.
writing mind kind
And the writers are good in that it's easy to memorize, and good writing has an innate rhythm to it. And I've always felt that it's easier to get in your head than writing that has very kind of mind busting moments. Glenn Close
writing piano hymns
It's part of what I do at my piano - the hymns. And then I write. Jessi Colter
writing half crafts
Half the rhymes you write, you're saying that you're better than the other MC. That's how we keep the craft sharp. Ice T