Quotes about writ
writing thinking circles
Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions. Mason Cooley
writing play roles
Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.
writing urgent
I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.
writing sorrow unhappiness
Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.
writing temptation aphorism
Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.
writing interesting sublime
The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.
writing solitude reader
A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
writing stories ifs
If they're going to write a story they're going to write the story whether it's true or not Mary-Kate Olsen
writing terrified
Im always terrified when Im writing. Mary Karr
writing divorce faces
Nobody sounds good writing about your divorce, let's face it.
writing prison regimes
I will say that the prison regime is rather a good one for a writer because you have plenty of time to write. Mary Archer
writing play waiting
A painter paints, a musician plays, a writer writes - but a movie actor waits. Mary Astor
writing character thinking
I'm a nudist by trade and hobby. I grew up in LA and I've been fortunate enough to be doing this for a great deal of years; if someone is thinking of me as they're writing something I take it as a huge compliment and hope that it's an interesting character at least. Martin Starr
writing new-orleans way
I've just been writing a column about the way in which Fallujah and New Orleans are looking to be twin towns in effect. They're both been worked over by the Bush Administration. Martin Walker
writing done want
All these things that enter your head are assignments. You write them up and then throw them out there and if someone wants to do it, your assignment is done. Martin Short
writing design magic
I have architects write to me and ask me: How do you - and what do you do to - design the magic thing? I answer that very carefully. It's not necessarily about what you do, but the clients you do it for. You should write to Target, not me. Michael Graves
writing news firsts
Unfortunately, most news writing is the product of a first draft culture. Michael Gartner
writing lines
I learn the lines that JK Rowling or whoever writes them, and say them. Michael Gambon
writing differences making-a-difference
Whatever else I know, I know that if you invest love and care in any individual you can help them to make a difference, to write their own life story. Michael Gove
writing people causes
People going into a business have to have a plan. It's helpful to write it out, even if you're the only one there to see it and execute it. It's your bible. Stick to it, unless things happen in the market that cause you to change your plan. I do that myself. Michael Franzese
writing successful two
You need three things to become a successful novelist: talent, luck and discipline. Discipline is the one element of those three things that you can control, and so that is the one that you have to focus on controlling, and you just have to hope and trust in the other two. Michael Chabon
writing quiet internet
While writing, I'll go anywhere I find that is quiet, has no internet. I have a big internet problem.
writing discovery perfect
I love the internet and it has been incredibly useful and I have made discoveries that have been immeasurably crucial to my work [writing] - things I don't know how I ever would have found out otherwise, that are perfect, just what I need for whatever I'm doing.
writing important three
Jerome Charyn is one of the most important writers in American literature and one of only three now writing whose work makes me truly happy to be a reader.
writing thinking way
I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps. Michael Connelly
writing world way
No Way Back is my kind of novel - a tough, taut thriller - Mofina knows the world he writes about.
writing trying world
I feel I'm functioning at some level as a journalist because even though I write fiction, I'm trying to get the world accurate.
writing thinking world
I think I would spend the first 30 weeks not writing, just clearing my head and seeing parts of the world I haven't seen and going back to places I have seen and love.
writing paragraph ifs
Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.
writing justice police
I went into journalism to learn the craft of writing and to get close to the world I wanted to write about -- police and criminals, the criminal justice system,
writing paris stories
How I work is that I write a story I'd like to read. Then you fly to Paris or Sydney and the interviewers talk about the greater significance of your work.
writing people fiction
Most science fiction seemed to be written for people who already liked science fiction; I wanted to write stories for anyone, anywhere, living at any time in the history of the world.
writing idaho ready
That's the best thing about writing, when you're in that zone, you're porous, ready to absorb the solution.