Quotes about writ
writing ideas phrases
There definitely isn't a structure anymore to how I get ideas. A lot of times I'll just write down a phrase, or I'll have an idea that's attached to just a few chords. Other times, it's work. Ryan Adams
writing pedants faults
To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant. William Hazlitt
writing grows tumors
The thought, when written down, becomes less oppressive, but some thoughts are like a cancerous tumor: you express is, you excise it, and it grows back worse than before. Vladimir Nabokov
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 tears down-and
I find myself often moved to tears by what is being written in front of me. Sometimes, I just sit on the couch and write the words down and cry because the beauty of the thoughts and how exquisitely they are being expressed. Neale Donald Walsch
writing first-time
I knew I didn't want to put anything down in writing about the first time that I had sex. I knew that I didn't want to do that. Mara Wilson
writing men ordinary
Method is not less requisite in ordinary conversation than in writing, provided a man would talk to make himself understood. Joseph Addison
writing thinking issues
The way that I sort of direct the writers is, let's do the best story we can. Let's not worry about production issues. 'How much will that cost? How are we going to shoot that?' Let's not set up those constraints on the writing. I don't think it helps the project to work like that. Jose Padilha
writing painful this-day
To this day writing is the most painful thing to do. Jose Antonio Vargas
writing causality problem
The central problem of novel-writing is causality. Jorge Luis Borges
writing too-much
I'm happy to write 10 times too much music. Jonny Greenwood
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 self editing
The writing itself is no big deal. The editing, and even more than that, the self-doubt, is excruciatingly impossible. Jonathan Safran Foer
writing self two
Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states -- "fear societies" and "free societies," two kinds of consciousness. The consciousness derived of oppression is despairing, fatalistic, and fearful of inquiry. It is mistrustful of the self and forced to trust external authority. It is premised on a dearth of self-respect. It is cramped. In contrast, the consciousness of freedom is one of expansiveness, trust of the self, and hope. It is a consciousness of limitless inquiry. It builds up in a citizen a wealth of self-respect. Naomi Wolf
writing unsaid great-power
The unsaid, for me, exerts great power... Louise Gluck
writing my-time
I spend most of my time writing. Louise Erdrich
writing track laughing
I write funny. If I can make my wife laugh, I know I'm on the right track. But yes, I don't like to get Maudlin. And I have a tendency towards it. Gene Wilder
writing play voice
I play and I've played in heavy bands, but when I write for myself, I don't particularly feel like writing huge rock riffs. It just doesn't work for me and my voice. James Iha
writing novel great-things
I always knew writing a novel was a great thing. James Salter
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.
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 people kind
If you write for the New Yorker, you always get people critiquing your grammar, you can count on it. So, because a lot of New Yorker readers are kind of, you know, amateur grammarians and so you do get a lot of that. Louis Menand
writing battle fiction
Fiction must compete with first-rate reporting. If you cannot write a story that is equal to a factual account of battle in the streets or demonstrations, then you can't write a story. John Cheever
writing water gossip
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge. Napoleon Hill
writing character elude-you
To know what you want to say is not the best condition for writing a novel. Novels go happiest when you discover something you did not know you knew: an insight into one of your opaque characters, a metaphor that startles you... a truth... that used to elude you. Norman Mailer
writing mean thinking
I never think about poetry except when I'm writing it. I mean my poetry. Norman MacCaig
writing house freedom-of-speech
When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free. Orhan Pamuk
writing giving secret
I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public. O. Henry
writing alive theory
I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing. Octavia Butler
writing
I'm me, and I'm here, and I'm writing,
writing proportion fling
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us. Emile M. Cioran
writing painful found
I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write. Ellen Glasgow
writing two done
I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done. Rachel Johnson