Quotes about writ
writing important fiction
Fiction is very important to me. It's what I do, it's what I do with my life. Theodore Sturgeon
writing ideas people
Basically, fiction is people. You can't write fiction about ideas.
writing fiction-stories problem
A science fiction story is a story with a human problem, and a human solution, that would not have happened at all without its scientific content.
writing people expertise
You must write to the people's expertise.
writing dollars stories
The first writing I did was short short stories for a newspaper syndicate for which I was paid five dollars a piece on publication.
writing firsts students
I teach writing courses and first of all, I teach my students what prosody is.
writing stories done
There is no way of writing stories that I haven't done.
writing people
There are a lot of people who write very intensely about things they do not and cannot do.
writing letters stories
I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
writing men thinking
Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck rake, speedily becomes, not a help but one of the most potent forces for evil ... Theodore Roosevelt
writing men doe
The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done.
writing people half
A theme that appears repeatedly in the writings of the social critics of the second half of the 20th century is the sense of purposelessness that afflicts many people in modern society. Theodore Kaczynski
writing should theodore
Theodore Dreiser Should ought to write nicer. Theodore Dreiser
writing next pits
Dreiser wanted to write the next great American novel, and his desperation pervades [ Sister Carrie ] like an unsavory pit stain.
writing unconquerable urges
If you have that unconquerable urge to write, nothing will stop you from writing.
writing self long
Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after the holocaust is barbaric. And this corrodes even the knowledge of why it has become impossible to write poetry today. Absolute reification, which presupposed intellectual progress as one of its elements, is now preparing to absorb the mind entirely. Critical intelligence cannot be equal to this challenge as long as it confines itself to self-satisfied contemplation. Theodor Adorno
writing ends
In the end, the writer is not even allowed to live in his writing.
writing men places-to-live
For a man who no longer has a homeland, writing becomes a place to live.
writing poetry auschwitz
Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric.
writing player intuition
The great thing about string quartets is the players are kind of like family. They work really well as a unit, so you can write things that let them use those talents of association and intuition-all the things they’ve developed together as a group. Terry Riley
writing advice doe
Cruising the Internet doesn't count as writing. Neither does answering e-mail. Before you check Twitter & FB and do other similar tasks that get in the way of writing, write first. (I really need to take my own advice here!) Terry McMillan
writing willing
Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.
writing ease
I do not write with ease, nor am I ever pleased with anything I write. And so I rewrite. Margaret Mitchell
writing self loathing
I procrastinate to a point where I'm filled with self-loathing and then I start writing. It's usually a state of self-loathing that gets me going. Michael Lewis
writing different world
I don't assume, because I can write screenplays, that I know how to write a novel. It's a very different world. There's a craft involved in storytelling, and it's a different kind of craft. But yes, someday I will do that. It just might be awhile. Melissa Rosenberg
writing world kind
When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world. Michael Ondaatje
writing artist defining
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness. Max Eastman
writing men wish
I want to find a genie in a bottle that can grant me three wishes. I want to be able to speak, read, write, and understand any language ever written or spoken, just any language throughout the history of man. That would be one of my wishes from the genie, so I would have to put "multilingual" on the resume, should I ever find the genie. Maynard James Keenan
writing lord angelou
I don't know how much longer I'll be around. I'll probably be writing when the Lord says, 'Maya, Maya Angelou, it's time.' Maya Angelou
writing apology thinking
I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people.
writing black-and-white thinking
I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.
writing serious problem
One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a time and saying if it comes, good; if it doesn't come, good, I'll just sit here.
writing ignorance people
If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.