Quotes about writ
writing trying way
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it. Ernest Hemingway
writing thinking dollars
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don’t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use.
writing night nails
Work every day. No matter what has happened the day or night before, get up and bite on the nail.
writing epic guy
Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones.
writing rocks literature
There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges.
writing typewriters hands
I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works.
writing successful use
To be successful in writing, use short sentences.
writing great-writing
There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!
writing action emotion
Find what gave you emotion; what the action was that gave you excitement. Then write it down making it clear so that the reader can see it too. Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
writing good-and-bad left
There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.
writing mean people
To help people in the third world get educated and learn how to read and write is so important. I mean it is such an important human right. Eva Green
writing reservations made
Whenever I write for hotel reservations, I always enclose a set of rules I have made for the hotels. Ethel Waters
writing islands black
Here, beside this great black surface that is my desk, I feel as though I am on a desert island. Etty Hillesum
writing born
Every word born of an inner necessity - writing must never be anything else.
writing heart loss
Most people write off their longing for friends and family as so many losses in their lives, when they should count the fact that their heart is able to long so hard and to love so much as among their greatest blessings.
writing pleasure my-friends
At the time of writing, I don't write for my friends or myself either; I write for it, for the pleasure of it. Eudora Welty
writing thinking direct
I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.
writing way stories
Daydreaming had started me on the way; but story writing once I was truly in its grip, took me and shook me awake.
writing looks fiction
Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists.
writing novel knows
What we know about writing the novel is the novel.
writing stories next
Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story.
writing stories next
Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.
writing experience stories
Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.
writing clouds vagueness
No blur of inexactness, no cloud of vagueness, is allowable in good writing; from the first seeing to the last putting down, there must be steady lucidity and uncompromise of purpose.
writing stories
Each story tells me how to write it, but not the one afterwards.
writing knows
Write about what you don't know about what you know.
writing doe stories
To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.
writing essence raw-materials
The writing of a novel is taking life as it already exists, not to report it but to make an object, toward the end that the finished work might contain this life inside it and offer it to the reader. The essence will not be, of course, the same thing as the raw material; it is not even of the same family of things. The novel is something that never was before and will not be again.
writing thinking challenges
The challenge to writers today, I think, is not to disown any part of our heritage. Whatever our theme in writing, it is old and tried. Whatever our place, it has been visited by the stranger, it will never be new again. It is only the vision that can be new; but that is enough.
writing honestly can-do
To write honestly and with all our powers is the least we can do, and the most.
writing men literary-genre
A scientific autobiography belongs to a most awkward literary genre. If the difficulties facing a man trying to record his life are great - and few have overcome them successfully - they are compounded in the case of scientists, of whom many lead monotonous and uneventful lives and who, besides, often do not know how to write . . . Erwin Chargaff
writing years two
Sometimes you spend nine months, 10 months, a year writing a piece that you will hear two years later or something like that, and you never see anybody. It's a very different sort of metabolic. Esa-Pekka Salonen
writing elements patterns
I don't sing melodically. Rhyme pattern is how I sing. I also write like a lyricist or an MC because that's what I was before I was a singer. I just took those elements and put them into music. Erykah Badu