Quotes about writ
writing character two
I'll write maybe one long paragraph describing the events, then a page or two breaking the events into chapters, and then reams of pages delving into my characters. After that, I'm ready to begin Anne Tyler
writing shy appearance
I'm too shy for personal appearances, and I've found out that anytime I talk about my writing, I can't do any writing for many weeks afterward.
writing looks lasts
I would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them - without a thought about publication - and only in the last draft to consider how the work will look from the outside.
writing mind mechanic
Once your mind is caught on the right snag, there's nothing so hard about the mechanics of writing.
writing numbers pages
My writing day has grown shorter as I've aged, although it seems to produce the same number of pages.
writing want
I write because I want to have more than one life.
writing doors two
I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.
writing dinner homesick
The hardest novel to write was Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant.
writing
I didn't really choose to write; I more or less fell into it.
writing hands feelings
I don't type [when I write] because . . . I often have the feeling that everything flows directly from my right hand.
writing literature felt
If I waited till I felt like writing, I'd never write at all.
writing literature meals
My family can always tell when I'm well into a novel because the meals get very crummy.
writing trying next
It's a lot easier to act when the writing is good. Nothing is more frustrating than trying to figure out 'Well, why did I say this next?' Anna Kendrick
writing thinking people
There are many people who say, I write for myself. I think that if you write and publish, then you write for your readers, not just for yourself. Many writers say that they write to be loved. I place myself among those writers. Angeles Mastretta
writing rooms pieces
I began to write short pieces when I was living in a room too small to write a novel in. Angela Cartwright
writing long guy
Im looking for a guy who makes you want to dance and write poetry all day long. Angela Sarafyan
writing ideas news-stories
I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily. Amy Hempel
writing interesting want
Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.
writing stories ends
I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.
writing thinking stories
I know when a story is finished when there is not a single thing more I can think to do to it. And since I know at the start what the last line will be, I know when I've reached that point as logically as I can that it's finished. As for the rewriting-it's not foolproof, of course, but if you're honest about having thought of every possibility and you still come back to what you have, what more can you do?
writing doors sometimes
Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.
writing color people
I write about everything, but I just - how faith filters through all that and colors your opinion of other people and life and all that. Amy Grant
writing
I do not write, I build. Alvar Aalto
writing lucky enough
I am lucky enough to have Aaron Sorkin write what I have to say. Allison Janney
writing trying care
I'm an efficient, good, professional reporter. But I also write. And so what I try to do is write about places that I know that I care about intensely and write about them in a way that conveys the fact that I care. Alma Guillermoprieto
writing littles unimaginable
It's unimaginable to me that I wouldn't write, but it's very imaginable that I won't write for a little while. Anne Rivers Siddons
writing people doe
You start at the end, and then go back and write and go that way. Not everyone does, but I do. Some people just sit down at the page and start off. I start from what happened, including the why. Anne Perry
writing thinking people
I think it's a terrible thing to write and not enjoy it. It's a sad thing. But of course a lot of people do work because they need to eat. And we all need to eat, but that's not the only reason to work. You couldn't have paid me not to write.
writing thinking mad
I don't really think it comes as a shock to every writer if somebody in their family is mad at them. Yes, it's very upsetting. But it's inherent in the process of trying to make sense of one's life, which is what I think is perhaps at the bottom of writing at all. Anne Roiphe
writing thinking people
What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.
writing crafts tricks
Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem. Anne Sexton
writing thinking perfect
I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.
writing thinking white
I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!