Quotes about writ
writing people use
I know well enough that very few people who are supposedly interested in writing are interested in writing well. They are interested in publishing something, and if possible in making a "killing." They are interested in being a writer not in writing. . . If this is what you are interested in, I am not going to be much use to you. Flannery O'Connor
writing ideas people
It is a good deal easier for most people to state an abstract idea than to describe and thus re-create some object they actually see.
writing mind different
Technique in the minds of many is something rigid, something like a formula that you impose on the material; but in the best stories it is something organic, something that grows out of the material, and this being the case, it is different for every story of any account that has ever been written.
writing attention use
When using dialect, use it lightly. A dialect word here and there is enough. All you want to do is suggest. Never let it call attention to itself.
writing blood working-together
As for the blood and the head business, the blood and the head work together and what is not first in the blood can sometimes reach it by going first through the head and what is wrong in the blood can sometimes be tempered by the head.
writing self blood
The less self-conscious you are about what you are about, the better in a way, that is to say technically. You have to get it in your blood, not in the head.
writing mean people
It is always difficult to get across to people who are not professional writers that a talent to write does not mean a talent to write anything at all.
writing thinking air
I don't think you should write something as long as a novel around anything that is not of the gravest concern to you and everybody else and for me this is always the conflict between an attraction for the Holy and the disbelief in it that we breathe in with the air of the times.
writing half overcoming
I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.
writing attachment fiction
It seems that the fiction writer has a revolting attachment to the poor, for even when he writes about the rich, he is more concerned with what they lack than with what they have.
writing people stories
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.
writing able literature
The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
writing stupidity quality
There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.
writing judging clean
No judge writes on a wholly clean slate. Felix Frankfurter
writing people secret
I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly. Fay Wray
writing trying would-be
Because there's just so much in a day now, I keep writing in much more abstract terms, like I don't try to write about what happened anymore. It would be impossible. Feist
writing skills way
Songwriting is a really fortunate skill to have to frame living and to find new ways to observe things you're going through.
writing thinking film
No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite. Federico Fellini
writing practice peculiar
The peculiar need to write is increased, it seems, rather than allayed with practice. Fay Weldon
writing generosity people
Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.
writing thinking twelve
If things are going well I can easily spend twelve hours a day writing, but not writing writing, just thinking and revising and taking a comma out and putting it back in. Francine Prose
writing successful artist
Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity. George Orwell
writing strange-places people
The Internet is a fantastic, strange place where you can write an open letter and be reasonably assured that people are going to read it. Chris Weitz
writing comedy-writing comedy
Comedy writing is taking the brief thought and going with it. Chris O'Dowd
writing iraq people
I sent American troops to Iraq to make its people free, not to make them American. Iraqis will write their own history and find their own way. George W. Bush
writing data wells
You cannot write well without data. George V. Higgins
writing style
By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it.
writing views giving
From where I sit, battles are hard. I've written my share. Sometimes I employ the private's viewpoint, very up close and personal, dropping the reader right into the middle of the carnage. That's vivid and visceral, but of necessity chaotic, and it is easy to lose all sense of the battle as a whole. Sometimes I go with the general's point of view instead, looking down from on high, seeing lines and flanks and reserves. That gives a great sense of the tactics, of how the battle is won or lost, but can easily slide into abstraction. George R. R. Martin
writing glasses disease
It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass. Gene Tierney
writing hands tasks
I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand. Garth Ennis
writing helping
To read and write will help you understand life. . .to sew and mend will help you survive it. Gail Tsukiyama
writing two people
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of my birth and the date of my death. Between one and another, every day is mine. Fernando Pessoa
writing race sublime
The human race may be compared to a writer. At the outset a writer has often only a vague general notion of the plan of his work, and of the thought he intends to elaborate. As he proceeds, penetrating his material, laboring to express himself fitly, he lays a firmer grasp on his thought; he finds himself. So the human race is writing its story, finding itself, discovering its own underlying purpose, revising, recasting a tale pathetic often, yet none the less sublime. Felix Adler