Quotes about writ
writing too-much good-business
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. Irvin S. Cobb
writing culture should
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is. Irvine Welsh
writing kind mysticism
There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
writing fiction-and-nonfiction nonfiction
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
writing letters
The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future. Iris Murdoch
writing character fighting
It's exciting to get to write characters that love each other and fight for each other. Ilana Glazer
writing murder commit
Those who commit the murders write the reports. Ida B. Wells
writing long house
It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it! Idris Elba
writing pages weakness
Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page. Hyman Rickover
writing people keith
There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder. Hunter Hayes
writing artist america
There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a Black American writes a story, it's called a Black story. I take exception to that. Every artist has articulated to his own experience. The problem is that some people do not see Blacks as Americans. Gloria Naylor
writing thinking age
I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about. Gloria Vanderbilt
writing people negative
I don't want to walk in the middle. I want people to read what I write and feel strongly about it. If, at some point, whatever I am doing is failing to elicit a response, whether it's very positive or very negative, then I am going to stop doing it. James Frey
writing style pieces
When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.
writing thinking important
There's something, I think, that gets lost when we write something - something gets lost in the translation. So I speak everything out, and it's more important how it sounds. And applying that to more formal aspects of writing.
writing interest autobiography
Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.
writing instinct feels
I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.
writing mean dark
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor by means of botany and soil-science; but it grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mold of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps. No doubt there is much personal selection, as with a gardener: what one throws on one's personal compost-heap; and my mold is evidently made largely of linguistic matter. J. R. R. Tolkien
writing dark long-ago
grows like a seed in the dark out of the leaf-mould of the mind: out of all that has been seen or thought or read, that has long ago been forgotten, descending into the deeps.
writing names giving
It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.
writing hands deception
Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when he came to compare them with their originals, he was surprised to find that they were nothing for his purpose! the originals conveyed a quite contrary sense to that of the pretended quoters, who often, from innocent blundering, and sometimes from purposed deception, had falsified their quotations. This is an useful story for second-hand authorities! Isaac Disraeli
writing trying too-much
When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins. Isaac Bashevis Singer
writing perspective outsiders
I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider. Isaac Marion
writing cutting lessons
We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth-if such a thing can even be said to exist. Isaac Asimov
writing mind study
It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
writing plot stories
I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first. Grace Paley
writing dont-lie ifs
Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.
writing lays written
Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before. Georg C. Lichtenberg
writing equipment our-thoughts
Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts. Friedrich Nietzsche
writing two knowing
Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.
writing political choices
My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible. Jessica Valenti
writing relax certain
There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself. Jessica Simpson
writing emotional details
I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later. Jenni Rivera