Quotes about writ
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. Etgar Keret
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 army space
In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.
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 band moments
The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band. Ethan Hawke
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 talking people
Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.
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 past trying
All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened. Ernest Gaines
writing wanted feels
I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.
writing objectivity i-can
I write with as much objectivity as I can.
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 yesterday pages
Today I must write a paragraph or a page better than I did yesterday.
writing missing singing
What I miss today more than anything else - I don't go to church as much anymore - but that old-time religion, that old singing, that old praying which I love so much. That is the great strength of my being, of my writing.
writing thinking who-i-am
I write to try to find out who I am. One of my main themes is manliness. I think I'm trying to figure out what manliness really is.
writing golden six
The Six Golden Rules of Writing: Read, read, read, and write, write, write.
writing talking voice
I wanted to be able to write in the voice that I talk to my friends and assume that everybody would know what I was talking about. Ernest Cline
writing empathy way
Writing really evokes empathy in a way very few things can do. Erin Gruwell
writing thinking challenges
I binge write. I think it's because I started seriously writing by participating in National Novel Writing Month, an online-based challenge to write 50,000 words in 30 days. Erin Morgenstern
writing evil people
People are naive about such things, and they would rather write them off as evil than attempt to understand them. An unfortunate truth, but a truth nonetheless.
writing paint found
I paint very messy. I throw paint around. So when I let myself do the same sort of thing with my writing, and I would just write and write and write and revise, that's when I found my rhythm in writing.
writing brain different
Sometimes I write what I can't paint, and I paint what I can't write. I use a different part of the brain.
writing emotional vivid-imagination
I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.
writing scared
Write what you’re scared about. Jason Katims
writing serious feels
And write what you love - dont feel pressured to write serious prose if what you like is to be funny. Cassandra Clare