Quotes about writ
writing thinking waiting
I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again. John Updike
writing eggs chickens
Writing doesn't require drive. It's like saying a chicken has to have drive to lay an egg.
writing should-have voice
Prose should have a flow, the forward momentum of a certain energized weight; it should feel like a voice tumbling in your ear.
writing something-new
There's always something new by looking at the same thing over and over.
writing sea sailing
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
writing merit artistic
The measure of artistic merit is the length to which a writer is willing to go in following his own compulsions.
writing trying busy
Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.
writing constant rewriting
Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
writing people personality
Seemed to me important in writing about people to be able to describe the sexual transactions between them. It's - for many people it's the height of, what they see, of ecstasy and poetry is in their sexual encounters. And furthermore, personality - human personality does not end in the bedroom, but persists.
writing humanity may
The - writing is a kind of act of aggression, and a person who is not aggressive in his normal, may I say, intercourse with humanity might well be an aggressive writer.
writing men doctors
A doctor is a man who writes prescriptions, till the patient either dies or is cured by nature. John Taylor
writing way scripts
You either learn your way towards writing your own script in life, or you unwittingly become an actor in someone else's script. John Taylor Gatto
writing sunday opportunity
What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.' John Sentamu
writing men speak
Few men make themselves masters of the things they write or speak. John Selden
writing audience
You've got to write for your audience. John Ratzenberger
writing decision trying
I don't know when I made that active decision to be a writer or to try to write, but I know I always liked storytelling. John Ridley
writing ink use
He that uses many words for explaining any subject, doth, like the cuttlefish, hide himself for the most part in his own ink. John Ray
writing essence becoming
Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer. John O'Hara
writing rejection one-day
You do it a day at a time. You just put your rejection slips in a shoebox and tell yourself one day you're going to autograph them and sell them at auction. James Lee Burke
writing two choices
You have two choices in life. You either die or do something with your time. You're going to be doing something - why not write?
writing worry silence
If you don't compromise your gift, if you write each day as well as you can, and then submit your work and not worry about it and go on to the next piece, you suddenly find oddly enough that you're no more interested in the applause than the silence. You don't hear either one of them. You can never listen to the naysayers. If you do you won't survive.
writing stuff scripts
I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right. Martin McDonagh
writing humor hard
It's very hard to write humor. Mark Strand
writing numbers people
The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.
writing giving energy
Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about. Marilyn Hacker
writing long letters
Letter writing is an excellent way of slowing down this lunatic helterskelter universe long enough to gather one’s thoughts Nick Bantock
writing stories
Don't ever let anyone else write your story for you. Nick Carter
writing america treatment
Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America. Penelope Spheeris
writing different culture
For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages. Paulo Coelho
writing years enlightenment-and-love
I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
writing intelligent soul
I only write to understand myself better... I don't try to show how intelligent or how cultivated I am, I just try to share my soul. Sharing is part of life.
writing ideas havens
I haven't always been a writer and I suppose I tiptoed around the idea of writing full time, because it's so isolating. Marisha Pessl
writing forever band
Occasionally when I'm procrastinating writing, I'll while away the hours on iTunes. You can just keep going forever and find these bands you'd never normally hear of.