Quotes about writ
writing tvs
I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about. Truman Capote
writing discovery self
There is really no practical help that one can offer; it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own convictions, or working with one's own work; your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.
writing typing
That isn't writing at all, it's typing.
writing keys ive-learned
And that's what I've learned too: writing is key. Trish Stratus
writing wife helping
My family is involved and my wife Brenda is a great, great writer. She helps me with the writing of everything and also sings with me. I owe a lot to Brenda. Rick Derringer
writing phones editors
I have dictated stories from an airport after writing the story out in longhand on the plane that I got from phone interviews and then was applauded by editors for 'working magic. Rick Bragg
writing numbers feelings
There's the underlying feeling that writing must be easy, because it's all about putting letters together. That's only true in the same way that programming is all about putting numbers together. Rhianna Pratchett
writing talking desire
I can pretty much spend an entire week talking about how the writing process works, to be honest! It can really vary from project to project and is often dependent on when you're brought on board, the genre, the platform and the narrative desires of the project.
writing people matter
The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take very seriously. Reza Aslan
writing mind shadow
Measure your minds height by the shadow it casts. Rex Stout
writing simple two
Two very simple rules: A. You don't have to write. B. You can't do anything else The rest comes of itself. Raymond Chandler
writing long forever
The agent never receipts his bill, puts his hat on and bows himself out. He stays around forever, not only for as long as you can write anything that anyone will buy, but as long as anyone will buy any portion of any right to anything that you ever did write. He just takes ten per cent of your life.
writing advice like-yourself
Don't ever write anything you don't like yourself and if you do like it, don't take anyone's advice about changing it. They just don't know.
writing personality perception
The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.
writing order
The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.
writing perception criticism
Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic.
writing silence mind
[As a screenwriter] I have a sense of exile from thought, a nostalgia of the quiet room and balanced mind. I am a writer, and there comes a time when that which I write has to belong to me, has to be written alone and in silence, with no one looking over my shoulder, no one telling me a better way to write it. It doesn't have to be great writing, it doesn't even have to be terribly good. It just has to be mine.
writing people style
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.
writing advice progress
I have made three rules of writing for myself that are absolutes: Never take advice. Never show or discuss work in progress. Never answer a critic.
writing eye loss
Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are no longer alone, they have an investment in critical praise, and they think they must protect it. This leads to a diffusion of effort. The writer watches himself as he works. He grows more subtle and he pays for it by loss of organic dash.
writing cutting thinking
Most critical writing is drivel and half of it is dishonest. It is a short cut to oblivion, anyway. Thinking in terms of ideas destroys the power to think in terms of emotions and sensations.
writing gun men
When in doubt, have a man come through the door with a gun in his hand.
writing style investment
The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the single most valuable investment a writer can make with his time.
writing passion technique
Technique alone is never enough. You have to have passion. Technique alone is just an embroidered potholder.
writing years want
The test of a writer is whether you want to read him again years after he should by the rules be dated.
writing men paper
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
writing stories storytelling
A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled.
writing mind tools
I just like being all over the place and writing whatever comes to mind. Having the tools? It's such a gift. Regina Spektor
writing interesting stories
Even if you're an observer of a story that you yourself made up, you're still very much connected to it. You love it and feel it, no less than somebody's who's writing from their direct 'I' or 'me.' I'm just so much more interesting in stories than confessions.
writing trying lasts
When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.
writing thinking modern
I can think of no one more qualified to write about the modern South than Curtis Wilkie Willie Morris
writing firsts journalism
Journalism is writing that first appears in any periodic journal. William Zinsser
writing thinking doe
Writing is linear and sequential; Sentence B must follow Sentence A, and Sentence C must follow Sentence B, and eventually you get to Sentence Z. The hard part of writing isn't the writing; it's the thinking. You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: What does the reader need to know next?