Quotes about writ
writing simple thinking
My working habits are simple: long periods of thinking, short periods of writing. Ernest Hemingway
writing thinking fool
The fools think I am writing algebra but what I am really writing is geometry.
writing people
You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.
writing talking cracks
Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing.
writing next-day trying
You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again.
writing ill-health worry
Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves.
writing
The further you go in writing the more alone you are.
writing trying wonderful
Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.
writing boxing
My writing is nothing, my boxing is everything.
writing important fiction
You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.
writing knowing trying
I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced...
writing water feelings
If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing.
writing
There is no rule on how to write.
writing good-luck long
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
writing sad-and-happy stories
After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.
writing people enough
You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love.
writing our-words afternoon
All our words from loose using have lost their edge.
writing stuff throwing
You know you’re writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.
writing thinking paris
I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, "Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.
writing letters way
Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
writing want
Anyone who says he wants to be a writer and isn't writing, doesn't.
writing vices pleasure
Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.
writing
The best writing is certainly when you are in love
writing epic
All bad writers are in love with the epic.
writing events assuming
There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.
writing worry ability
Worry destroys the ability to write.
writing political luck
All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens.
writing water movement
If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
writing ifs
If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.
writing details stories
Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.
writing bad-ass typewriters
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
writing small-details finished
If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.
writing shining hammers
In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused.