Quotes about writ
writing simple offering
The basic rule [of writing] given us was simple and heartbreaking. A story to be effective had to convey something from the writer to the reader, and the power of its offering was the measure of its excellence. Outside of that, there were no rules. John Steinbeck
writing wish certain
I wish to God I knew as much about writing as I did when I was 19. I was absolutely certain about most things then. Also, I suspect, more accurate.
writing poetry mathematics
Poetry is the mathematics of writing and closely kin to music.
writing want way
I do want to make it very convincing. And the best way to do that is to put most of it in dialogue.
writing character past
A creative person has to be alive. He can't borrow from things he's done in the past. He can't let his method choose his subjects or his characters. They can't be warped to fit his style.
writing ideas track
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page a day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
writing sight mind
A good writer always works at the impossible.There is another kind who pulls in his horizons, drops his mind as one lowers rifle sights.
writing ideas abandon
Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish.
writing paper whole
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper.
writing telling-the-truth hardest
Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.
writing paper excuse
Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on.
writing thinking goes-on
If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it-bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole you can come back to it and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn't belong there.
writing stories crafts
I have written a great many stories and I still don't know how to go about it except to write it and take my chances.
writing bird actors
Critics should be to actors what ornithologists are to birds: they can write all they want, but it shouldn't affect them. John Simm
writing thinking social
I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic. John Shirley
writing drunk drug
I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.
writing heart simple
I attribute my good fortune to the simple fact that I have always tried to write straight from my own heart to the hearts of others. Marie Corelli
writing sacrifice littles
I wasn't afraid of being poor; I rather took it for granted. I was good at getting by with very little. I couldn't imagine sacrificing my writing to anything else. Marge Piercy
writing self guilty
I am a driven writer. I feel guilty if I don't write, not self-indulgent if I do.
writing moments disappear
Writing is a futile attempt to preserve what disappears moment by moment.
writing men interesting
Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.
writing silence risk
Suppose that a person writes what she must. That is only the first step of becoming a writer. The work must survive the moment of creation. It must get out to an audience. She or he must dare to show the work. She must risk ridicule, misunderstanding, scandal, condemnation, & what's often worse, none of the above: silence. No attention at all.
writing firsts levels
I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system. Mark Zuckerberg
writing complaining
That's typically what writers do; we just sit around complaining most of the time. And the better things are going, the more they complain. Markus Zusak
writing interest
I have no interest in writing, directing or producing. Ted Shackelford
writing skills long
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel. Ted Rall
writing use ruins
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
writing cutting frustrated
So, I was always frustrated having to write and having to cut things. Why should you have to cut anything? Ted Nelson
writing design program
Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry
writing names long
It was okay for people to write negative things about me just as long as they spelled my name right. Ted Turner
writing ideas sober
I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life. Ted Nugent
writing house literature
Literature has nothing to do with usefulness; the most useful place in any house is the toilet. Theophile Gautier
writing fire caves
You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out. Theodore Sturgeon