Quotes about writ
writing thinking old-lady
...I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again. Flannery O'Connor
writing character people
I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one. Then they find themselves writing a sketch with an essay woven through it, or an essay with a sketch woven through it, or an editorial with a character in it, or a case history with a moral, or some other mongrel thing.
writing southern quality
When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that is generally described, in a pejorative sense, as grotesque. Of course, I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.... Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
writing done sides
Writing is something Ive always done on the side. I thought that no one would be interested, so I kept it to myself. Finn Wittrock
writing opposites people
The writing is therapeutic for me, it's an introverted process, I'm really inside my head. It's a really obsessive process. The live show, though, is the opposite. It's an extroverted process. It pushes me to connect with people, and so it pulls me out of my head and just pulls me out of myself. Fernando Torres
writing adventure discovery
Writing, like life itself, is a voyage of discovery. The adventure is a metaphysical one: it is a way of approaching life indirectly, of acquiring a total rather than a partial view of the universe. The writer lives between the upper and lower worlds: he takes the path in order eventually to become the path himself. Henry Miller
writing artist america
America is no place for an artist: to be an artist is to be a moral leper, an economic misfit, a social liability. A corn-fed hog enjoys a better life than a creative writer, painter or musician. To be a rabbit is better still.
writing trying viruses
He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment.
writing agony knows
One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing. Henning Mankell
writing worry long
I don't have to worry about writing jokes. I just tell stories about things that have happened to me. As long as I'm alive and I'm living and I'm experiencing different things every day, the show will always change. Gabriel Iglesias
writing thinking stories
I used to think, 'How can I write my life story? I'm still living it. Frank Serpico
writing play age
Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve. George Jean Nathan
writing way feels
One of the ways in which I feel close to God is writing poetry. Christian Wiman
writing names forgotten
Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten. Isabel Allende
writing one-thing
I am one thing, my writings are another. Friedrich Nietzsche
writing discipline creative
Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom. Jeanette Winterson
writing fiction stories
Part fact part fiction is what life is. And it is always a cover story. I wrote my way out.
writing fans bigs
I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again. Jeannette Walls
writing thinking people
One of the many lessons I hope I've learned is how much I underestimated people, their open-mindedness and their willingness to understand. I think, moreover, I underestimated the degree to which everyone has a story. So my advice, for whatever it's worth, is to trust readers, trust the truth and trust the power of storytelling.
writing past men
Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change. Jean-Paul Sartre
writing doe looks
That's what a story must feel like to me. It's not, "I want to write about a gravedigger." But you're walking along and - boop! shovel. "Ok, what does one do with a shovel? Digs a hole. Why? I don't know yet. Dig the hole! Oh, look a body." George Saunders
writing needs produce
When I write I know that I'm going to have to produce 40 percent more than I need.
writing thinking temptation
hen, there's such a temptation to just constantly write things that are going to make the fans happy. Sometimes it takes a little bit of unhappiness to make those happy pay-offs work better. That's something that is fascinating to us and I think has really changed the way that stories are told. Jeff Pinkner
writing doe tables
The table I write on I say exists ... meaning thereby that if I was in my study I might perceive it, or that some other spirit actually does perceive it. George Berkeley
writing men history
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. George Bernard Shaw
writing patient operations
Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.
writing lawyer persons
A lawyer is a person who writes a 10,000-word document and calls it a "brief." Franz Kafka
writing thinking parting
It is for this, partly, that I write. How can I know what I think unless I see what I write. Erica Jong
writing past thinking
As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.
writing diaries boring
I've kept journals at many times in my life starting from when I was about 13 or 14. But it's boring and contrived to keep a journal every day. Better to write as the mood strikes.
writing voice giving
You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.
writing thinking who-i-am
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
writing class feelings
There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom is not as important as what goes on in the battlefield, that what women know about is a less category of knowledge.