Quotes about writ
writing thinking facts
I think it was the fact that I liked it so much that made the writing just come out of me automatically. James Herriot
writing views two
Beauty has never been an important topic in the writings of the major psychologists. In fact, for Jung, aesthetics is a weak, early stage of development. He follows the Germanic view that ethics is more important than aesthetics, and he draws a stark contrast between the two. Freud may have written about literature a bit, but an aesthetic sensitivity is not part of his psychology. James Hillman
writing leopards use
Yet technique matters, even so. God uses it, for a buffalo is not a leopard. James Dickey
writing dresses wells
If you write well, you don't have to dress funny.
writing realizing love-poetry
What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe
writing thinking giving
The novel is final form; it's the ultimate individual final form. Television and motion pictures never get there. You'd be fabulous to think that something you write is even going to be filmed. I give it the best shot of which I'm capable. But it's more a payday for me. And if I didn't have alimony and the full-time assistant. James Ellroy
writing air data
I want to have enough data, so I won't write myself into thin air, so that I can extrapolate and give you this secret human infrastructure. The only way I sate my own curiosity is to create this from scratch. There must be commanding love stories. There must be great moral cost.
writing thinking people
[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.
writing thinking novel
I don't think I will write anything that could be even remotely considered a genre novel from this point on. I think I've graduated.
writing careers play
I am a writer. I could not afford to take 15 months off from my writing career to play detective.
writing thinking actors
It's great to write for actors when you know who they are. I think I prefer it. Jason Gann
writing years deadline
I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming. Jason Isbell
writing class interesting
There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life. Jarvis Cocker
writing brain information
If you listen first, and write later, then what you write will have had time to filter through your brain and you'll be in what you say. This is what makes you exist. If you are only a reflector of information, are you really there? Jaron Lanier
writing thinking writing-and-thinking
Writing and thinking is not economically sustainable.
writing plot firsts
When you get ready to write your novel, outline it first. There's nothing worse than getting halfway through and realizing you've painted yourself in a plot corner. Janet Evanovich
writing men ideas
Since I write in first person and have no idea what goes on in men's heads.
writing long progress
How long do we have to deal with conservative failure? How long? Thirty years is not enough? So I would say enough with that, and I would say check out the Center for American Progress, and the writings by Patrick Garofalo, economic guru. That's what I would say. Janeane Garofalo
writing poetry trying
The poets are the standard bearers of language. Their work lives or dies word by word. When I write and can hear a clunky sentence, I try to write up to the poetry that I have recited beforehand. Janet Fitch
writing home exercise
Being in the library is so addictive for me that I really have to exercise self-control so I can get some writing done at home.
writing long done
I decided that if I was never going to sell anything as long as I lived, I might as well do what I want to do 'cause then at least I would've done what I wanted to do in life. What's that worth?
writing numbers people
Most people write the same sentence over and over again. The same number of words-say, 8-10, or 10-12. The same sentence structure. Try to become stretchy-if you generally write 8 words, throw a 20 word sentence in there, and a few three-word shorties. If you're generally a 20 word writer, make sure you throw in some threes, fivers and sevens, just to keep the reader from going crosseyed.
writing house littles
My house is modern, but I like my writing room to be old fashioned. I write on a little wooden secretary desk.
writing light media
Appealing to the five senses is the feature that will always set writing apart from the visual media. A good writer will tell us what the world smells like, what the textures are, what the sounds are, what the light looks like, what the weather is.
writing rabbits accidents
We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits. - Joe Morelli
writing israel roles
In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets. Etgar Keret
writing thinking stories
I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
writing thinking would-be
I think something that forces financial institutions to write down underwater mortgages, I think, would be a sensible thing to do. Christina Romer
writing stranger dear
I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought. Gertrude Stein
writing thinking
Thinking visually is my starting point, and then the writing happens. Gerard Way
writing civilization progress
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization. Gerald Durrell
writing hands use
About your writing with you left hand, are you ambidextrous, Mr. Ewell?" "I most positively am not, I can use one hand good as the other. One hand good as the other. Harper Lee
writing should-have done
The day it comes out, there's already things that you start to go, 'Oh, I should have done that a little differently.' You start to make a list in your head. I actually write things down -- what I'm going to do next time. Howie Day