Quotes about writing
writing people accountability
People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture. Salman Khurshid
writing doubt lions
I dedicate this novel to Gala, who was constantly by my side while I was writing it, who was the good fairy of my equilibrium, who banished the salamanders of my doubts and strengthened the lions of certainties... Salvador Dali
writing heaven acting
Producing is hell, writing is frustrating, acting is really satisfying, directing is heaven. Salma Hayek
writing people forgiving
Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive. Salman Rushdie
writing horizon
My horizon's have shrunk and I have only endings to write.
writing islam satanic
When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
writing stuff way
When you start writing about the stuff that is the central experience of your own life, you can talk about whatever you want, in whatever way you want.
writing thinking typewriters
In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
writing fighting trying
Writers and politicians are natural rivals. Both groups try to make the world in their own images; they fight for the same territory.
writing thinking historical
The field of the novel is very rich. If you're a composer, you're well aware of the history of composition, and you are trying to make your music part of that history. You're not ahistorical. In the same way, I think, if you write now, you are writing in the historical context of what the novel has been and what possibilities it has revealed.
writing together different
The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.
writing boys cities
I'm a big-city boy. What I like is big cities. It's not just what I like. It's what I write about.
writing thinking exception
In general, writers shouldn't be killed for what they write, though I can think of exceptions.
writing voice people
Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
writing drawing people
Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'
writing islam fiction
If I had simply wanted to trade on an insult to Islam, I could have done it in a sentence rather than writing a 250,000-word novel, a work of fiction.
writing character thinking
I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they live in, to the story you have to tell, but just a kind of deep attention and out of that if you pay attention properly the story will tell you what it needs.
writing thinking vanity
When you write you in a way write out of what you think of as your best self, the part of you that is lacking in foibles and weaknesses and egotism and vanities and so on. You're just trying to really say something as truthful as you can out of the best that you have in you.
writing essence obvious-things
What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything down and find the kind of essence, the skeleton if you like, which can then be fleshed out by performance and cinematography.
writing people kind
As a writer, one of the things we all learned from the movies was a kind of compression that didn't exist before people were used to watching films. For instance, if you wanted to write a flashback in a novel, you once had to really contextualize it a lot, to set it up. Now, readers know exactly what you're doing. Close-ups, too.
writing self best-self
When you write, you write out of your best self. Everything else drops away.
writing
I didn't become a writer to write about me.
writing knows who-you-are
Until you know who you are you can’t write.
writing forever cool-things
The cool thing about writing music, writing anything, is that once you publish it, it's there forever. Ryan Tedder
writing advice done
Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile. Rudy Rucker
writing soul way
I ask you to write this deeply into your souls . . . the materialistic culture . . . is now on the way to its close. Rudolf Steiner
writing comedy checks
In addition to comedy, I'm a writer. I write checks. They're not very good. Wendy Liebman
writing home phones
As a performer, you can't just sit around waiting for the phone to ring. You have to write and develop projects for yourself, because casting people aren't always going to see you the way you want to be seen. Write a one-person show, shoot a short film, do plays, whatever - activity breeds activity. No one's interested in a stay-at-home actress. Wendi McLendon-Covey
writing two upset
I always tell students that writing a poem and publishing it are two quite separate things, and you should write what you have to write, and if you're afraid it's going to upset someone, don't publish it. Wendy Cope
writing people suggestions
Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.
writing mind easy
If something pops in my mind and it's easy, I write it. Wanda Jackson
writing thinking phones
I'm always thinking of stuff; I just don't sit down and write it. I come up with material more as I go along; if something funny happens, I'll make a note of it on my phone. Wanda Sykes
writing watches fiction
I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column. W. P. Kinsella