Quotes about writ
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. Etgar Keret
writing too-much good-business
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. Irvin S. Cobb
writing thinking people
The world may be divided into people that read, people that write, people that think, and fox-hunters. William Shenstone
writing years ideas
I became a writer because during several of the most important years of my life, writing seemed to me to be the most unreal, unattractive, and unecessary idea ever imposed upon the human race. William Saroyan
writing mind next
When I start getting close to the end of a novel, something registers in the back of my mind for the next novel, so that I usually don't write, or take notes. And I certainly don't begin. I just allow things to percolate for a while. Richard Russo
writing people want
Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.' Robin Hobb
writing sitting littles
Very little about being a writer is signing an autograph. It's sitting in a room and writing. Getting it out.
writing small-villages letters
It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write.... Walter Benjamin
writing night people
Hemingway is terribly limited. His technique is good for short stories, for people who meet once in a bar very late at night, but do not enter into relations. But not for the novel. W. H. Auden
writing doctors mind
When I suffer in mind, stories are my refuge; I take them like opium; and consider one who writes them as a sort of doctor of the mind. Robert Louis Stevenson
writing thinking design
I have a way of filming things and staging them and designing sets. There were times when I thought I should change my approach, but in fact, this is what I like to do. It's sort of like my handwriting as a movie director. And somewhere along the way, I think I've made the decision: I'm going to write in my own handwriting. Wes Anderson
writing process found
A writer is someone who has found a process that will bring about new things. William Stafford
writing age neurosis
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis. William Styron
writing thinking hands
I try to get a feeling of what's going on in the story before I put it down on paper, but actually most of this breaking-in period is one long, fantastic daydream, in which I think about anything but the work at hand. I can't turn out slews of stuff each day. I wish I could. I seem to have some neurotic need to perfect each paragraph—each sentence, even—as I go along.
writing stuff firsts
Never be satisfied with a first draft. In fact, never be satisfied with your own stuff at all, until you're certain it's as good as your finite powers can enable it to be. Rose Tremain
writing world duty
A writer's duty is to register what it is like for him or her to be in the world. Zadie Smith
writing long effort
What I wanted was to write a memoir that was immersive rather than reflective, to resurrect a long-gone version of my own consciousness. I kept expecting that sooner or later the effort would come to seem like second nature to me, but it never did. Kevin Brockmeier
writing unsaid great-power
The unsaid, for me, exerts great power... Louise Gluck
writing ideas effort
My idea of writing is of unflinching and continual effort, somehow trying to find the right words until you reach a point where you can make no further progress and you either have something or you don’t. James Salter
writing phones information
Since signing with Universal, I have been working closely with Gary Ross, the director, producer and screenwriter. We have spent many hours on the phone, and I've been sending him information and items that have been useful to the writing process. Laura Hillenbrand
writing night awards
I've seen some great write ups and I emailed her the other night because I saw her on an awards show recently. Nia Long
writing order broken
I write about broken people who need other people in order to go on. But those are the only kind of people I know to exist. We are all broken. John Green
writing technique cases
Technique is noticed most markedly in the case of those who have not mastered it. Leon Trotsky
writing careers firsts
The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money. Marcel Achard
writing outsiders
You have to be an outsider to write, Martin Cruz Smith
writing register i-can
I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write, Martin Amis
writing conscious
The less conscious one is of being a writer, the better the writing. Pico Iyer
writing divorce plies
I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes. Teju Cole
writing quality paint
We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses. Ralph Waldo Emerson
writing discovery mind
Ultimately, writing is about trusting your own mind. It is an act of discovery. Natalie Goldberg
writing bothering-you hands
If you feel bored or uncomfortable as you're writing, ask yourself what's bothering you and write about that. Sometimes your creative energy is like water in a kinked hose, and before thoughts can flow on the topic at hand, you have to straighten the hose by attending to whatever is preoccupying you.
writing color people
I deliberately look for colorful people. They're very right for theatre. Theatre has to be theatrical. If you can get color into the accountant, you've got something. Write the whole thing first and then say he's an accountant. That's a very wacky accountant, but so what? Theatricality feeds and challenges the actor, the director, and the designers. Lanford Wilson
writing people guy
You go to movies to see people you love suffer - that's why you go to the movies. You don't go to see a movie about a guy who already knows he has a wonderful life. Joss Whedon