Quotes about writ
writing years novelists
I was writing from the time I was 12 years old, but I originally wanted to be a novelist. Christopher McQuarrie
writing diaries knows
Never write up your diary on the day itself, for it takes longer than that to know what happened. Christopher Morley
writing circles two
Words, words, words, a million million words circle in my head like hawks, waiting to dive onto the page to rend and tear the only two words I want to write. Why me? Christopher Moore
writing world sometimes
I write music because I love it. Sometimes more than anything in the world. Ansel Elgort
writing brain let-it-go
But the only rhyme he could summon for 'out' was 'sauerkraut,' which lacked poetic glory. He let it go. The right line would come in time. That was the thing about poetry. It crept up through the draws and coulees of the brain. Annie Proulx
writing thinking space
I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.
writing quality etc
All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, “here it is. Ansel Adams
writing practice groups
You know, I always say musicians, they can do it on their own. They can practice their violin on their own. A painter can paint by himself. A writer can write by himself. But an actor needs a group, and the hardest thing about expanding your ability and your craft is to have a group to do it with that is of a caliber where you can grow even more. Anne Archer
writing criticism shells
If you want to write for T.V. and movies, you will be subjected to kind and unkind criticism. You had better get used to it and develop a shell. Anne Beatts
writing gun what-if
I'm into lately being a little less precious about writing and being like, "Okay, what if I just locked myself in my room, pretend that there's someone outside with a gun that's saying, 'Don't come out until you write something.'" Andrew Bird
writing hopeful motivated
I write a lot more when I'm happy, because you're hopeful, you're motivated.
writing fit chords
I don't write poetry and then strum some chords and then fit the words on top of the chords.
writing sometimes enjoy
I am, in some sense, a writer. Even though I kinda downplay the word thing, I do enjoy writing sometimes.
writing advice
That's my gutsy advice to any young writer: write only about what you know well. Amos Oz
writing
Don't write about that which you don't know.
writing sacrifice night
Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.
writing process avoiding
My writing process, such as it is, consists of a lot of noodling, procrastinating, dawdling, and avoiding. Amy Bloom
writing practice differences
Learning to listen, letting people finish their sentences, and most of all, the habit of noticing the difference between what people say and how they say it. {on the habits of psychoanalytic training and practice applied to fiction writing} The gap between what people tell you and what's really going on is what interests me.
writing novel
I don't write novels about expeditions to the planet Mars because I haven't been there and I don't know anything about it.
writing miracle mutual
I write about reconciliation, but not as a miracle, as a slow, gradual process of mutual discovery - discovering one another.
writing people enemy
I often write about reconciling. Reconciling, or maybe half-reconciling between antagonists, between people who are deadly enemies.
writing novel listen-to-me
When I need to take a side, I write a newspaper article and I tell my government, "You should not do that, you should do this." They don't listen to me, but I've been doing this for sixty years now. But, when I write a novel, I am not in that business.
writing giving perspective
In writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives and give each of them very a convincing voice. It's like playing tennis with yourself and you have to be on both sides of the yard. You have to be on both sides, or all sides if there are more than two sides.
writing appearance novel
Each time I have the urge in me to make a statement or send a message or to issue a manifesto, I don't bother to write a novel. I write an article and publish it in a popular newspaper, or I make a television appearance.
writing
I write in words. I don write in sounds or in shapes or in flavors.
writing hebrew
I write in words. And my words are Hebrew words.
writing musical important
My musical instrument is Hebrew and, to me, this is the most important fact about my writing.
writing lasts doe
Nothing is worth doing at all, nothing is worth writing, which does not do something which will last. Amy Carmichael
writing knowing interesting
It's not knowing how to write that makes you interesting, it's what you write. Ally Condie
writing easier
Why are some things easier to write than say?
writing people trying
I was always enjoying the moment. Acting, writing, looking for roles and getting involved with people and trying to create something that would be entertaining to people. With 'E.R.,' we were all very lucky to get this combination of people together in the right story in the right way to take it to the level it has reached. Anthony Edwards
writing joy challenges
Short stories are wonderful and extremely challenging, and the joy of them, because it only takes me three or four months to write, I can take more risks with them. It's just less of your life invested. Anthony Doerr
writing
I guess you could say I've been writing all my life.