Quotes about writing
writing garden rose
You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden and finding it still daylight. Virginia Woolf
writing heart flags
to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.
writing lava madness
As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.
writing profound pleasure
writing is the profound pleasure and being read the superficial.
writing thinking names
I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it.
writing attachment play
Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often the attachment is scarcely perceptible; Shakespeare's plays, for instance, seem to hang there complete by themselves. But when the web is pulled askew, hooked up at the edge, torn in the middle, one remembers that these webs are not spun in midair by incorporeal creatures, but are the work of suffering human beings, and are attached to the grossly material things, like health and money and the houses we live in.
writing people ask-me
People ask me why I write. I write to find out what I know.
writing demand may
And when we are writing the life of a woman, we may, it is agreed, waive our demand for action, and substitute love instead. Love, the poet has said, is a woman's whole existence...
writing thinking persons
I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.
writing tired lord
Lord, how tired one gets of one's own writing.
writing knows know-how
To know whom to write for is to know how to write.
writing use littles
A thousand things to be written had I time: had I power. A very little writing uses up my capacity for writing.
writing diaries kind
I got out this diary and read, as one always reads one's own writing; with a kind of guilty intensity.
writing criticism breakfast
O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.
writing sea bottom
One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.
writing soul secret
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
writing voice secret
Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?
writing quality literature
A good essay must have this permanent quality about it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that shuts us in not out.
writing prose-and-poetry poetry-is
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
writing men hygiene
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
writing voice people
What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.
writing doe finals
Madness is terrific I can assure you, and not to be sniffed at; and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about. It shoots out of one everything shaped, final, not in mere driblets, as sanity does.
writing plot rhythm
I am writing to a rhythm and not to a plot.
writing eye practice
The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.
writing darkness existence
When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
writing joy
It's the writing, not the being read, that excites me. Joy is in the doing.
writing way wells
The way to write well is to live intensely.
writing people silence
I want to write a novel about Silence," he said; “the things people don’t say.
writing together crafts
If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.
writing world
All the time she writing the world had continued.
writing skills keys
It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen. William Bernbach
writing play needs
anyone who writes plays is unbelievably persistent, because there isn't a need in the world for plays. Somehow you internally have to feel a need to write a play. Wendy Wasserstein
writing successful intelligent
I thought I would write something that would make some people uncomfortable. . . . What intrigued me, I think, was the idea of women of my own generation who were successful, intelligent, coming to power and suddenly in the public arena. I started to think about what they are allowed and what they are not allowed.