Quotes about writ
writing ifs
If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words. Sherwood Anderson
writing technology different
Technology has helped me with the writing and recording processes, and it's a great way to reach out to fans of my music, ... Dell's combining all these different technologies and making it really easy to enjoy them. Sheryl Crow
writing firsts stories
The first draft is just you telling yourself the story. Terry Pratchett
writing may close-friends
A writer's work may be a coded autobiography, but only a very close friend could decipher it. Nina Bawden
writing age life-is
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.
writing thieves tools
All writers are thieves; theft is a necessary tool of the trade.
writing way different
The thing I liked about writing about food when I started it was that I felt I was writing about food in a different way. Not like a food writer. Nigella Lawson
writing limits able
No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
writing editing four
Of every four words I write, I strike out three.
writing expression obscure
Spero Speroni explains admirably how an author who writes very clearly for himself is often obscure to his readers. "It is," he says, "because the author proceeds from the thought to the expression, and the reader from the expression to the thought. Nicolas Chamfort
writing years ideas
I always write and create. I'm never not creating. I'm always creating a show, every year, whether it gets picked up or not. I always sell a pilot or an idea. I like to be in control. Nick Swardson
writing stories rewards
The writing can be its own reward, as you discover more things that you can do. It counts a lot, though, when a story connects with a reader and they take the time to tell me about it. Nick Earls
writing anxiety needs
Don't be too concerned about the wingnut ears. Anxiety produces the wrong pheromones. Roll with the punches. Make time for life around your deep abiding need to write. Say Yes more, but not always. Say No enough that you have a life.
writing people stories
I'm a plotter. A thinker, a note-maker, a mapper and a flow-charter. I'm up for using any device that will teach me more about the people I'm writing about and their story.
writing honor-and-respect use
If you're going to write about someone's life, you don't just use them for wallpaper. You have to honor and respect that life. Nick Flynn
writing needs print
Read as much as you can. Write only when you feel the inner need to do so. And don’t ever rush into print.
writing good-day
On a good day I write, all day.
writing creative hot
Even though I didn't write 'Shaun Of The Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz,' I never felt left out of the creative process. Nick Frost
writing poet essays
Many good poets are really essayists who write very short essays. Nicholson Baker
writing pseudonyms would-be
While I was writing I assumed it would be published under a pseudonym, and that liberated me: what I wrote was exactly what I wanted to read.
writing chance moments
If you write every day, you're going to write a lot of things that aren't terribly good, but you're going to have given things a chance to have their moments of sprouting.
writing people trying
Writing has to do with truth-telling. When you're writing, let's say, an essay for a magazine, you try to tell the truth at every moment. You do your best to quote people accurately and get everything right. Writing a novel is a break from that: freedom. When you're writing a novel, you are in charge; you can beef things up.
writing thinking three
Sometimes I'll spend an hour writing a tiny email. I work on it until I've created the illusion that I've dashed it off in three minutes. If I make a typo, I let it stand. Sometimes in fact I correct the typo without thinking, and then I back up and retype the typo so that it'll look more casual. I don't know why.
writing piano guitar
I actually write more on guitar than I do on piano, Norah Jones
writing thinking paper
I think you often have that sense when you write--that if you can spot something in yourself and set it down on paper, you're free of it. And you're not, of course; you've just managed to set it down on paper, that's all. Nora Ephron
writing confusion directing-movies
One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.
writing pages blank-pages
You can fix anything but a blank page. Nora Roberts
writing mystery havens
All those who actually live the mysteries of life haven't the time to write, and all those who have the time don't live them! D'you see? Nikos Kazantzakis
writing thinking musical
I do realize that the reader needs some form of resolution. Sometimes I think of it almost like writing a musical score where things have to harmonize and certain lines have to come to a close. Nicole Krauss
writing thinking race
I personally have a great deal of respect for readers. I have a great deal of respect for the human race. I think most people can tell the difference between fiction and fact. I think that the action of writing about something does not condone it. The best thing I can ever hope to do is provide good questions, and I think I do that. I hope I do. Neil Gaiman
writing may novelists
If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist.
writing scripts diagrams
I enjoy writing scripts. I can find out what happens. With an outline, I feel like I'm doing an architectural diagram of something.
writing dykes stuff
And the stuff that I write, is even tougher than dykes Nas