Quotes about writ
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
writing insane lines
Anyone who goes into writing has to find out somewhere along the line, he's either naive or insane. Leon Uris
writing i-can ifs
If you can write it, I can be it. Karen Black
writing memoir
You write fiction, you're writing memoir, and when you're writing memoir, you're writing fiction. Elizabeth Gilbert
writing journalism selling
Writers are always selling somebody out. Joan Didion
writing gun stories
According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning what?" "Meaning, don't bring unnecessary props into a story. If a pistol appears, it has to be fired at some point. Chekhov liked to write stories that did away with all useless ornamentation. Haruki Murakami
writing thinking cinema
I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema. Joe Wright
writing ideas plot
Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction. Jo Nesbo
writing butterfly blood
... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes of the organisation register themselves thereon. Moreover, the same colour-patterns of the wings generally show, with great regularity, the degrees of blood-relationship of the species. As the laws of nature must be the same for all beings, the conclusions furnished by this group of insects must be applicable to the whole world. Henry Walter Bates
writing men names
I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the only instance I have ever known of a man signing his name and forgetting to write the letter. Henry Ward Beecher
writing thinking practice
There are some who write, talk, and think, so much about vice and virtue, that they have no time to practice either the one or the other. Charles Caleb Colton
writing first-love should-have
Little Red Riding Hood was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding Hood, I should have known perfect bliss. Charles Dickens
writing trying unendurable
On the one occasion where I did try writing a screenplay, I found the rewriting just unendurable. Alan Moore
writing cake literature
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it. Danielle Steel