Quotes about writing
writing people stories
The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC. Kurt Vonnegut
writing people thank-god
Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten.
writing fans machines
As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometimes I wrote well about collisions, which meant I was a writing machine in good repair. Sometimes I wrote badly, which meant I was a writing machine in bad repair. I no more harbored sacredness than did a Pontiac, a mousetrap, or a South Bend Lathe.
writing thinking fool
She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].
writing people decline
You can't teach people to write well. Writing well is something God lets you do or declines to let you do.
writing brain way
The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.
writing wonder wells
I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand.
writing thinking mountain
[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.
writing railroads steel
If Ayn Rand were an up-and-coming author today, she wouldn't write about steel or railroads, it would be Net Neutrality. Mark Cuban
writing media issues
You need a place where you can explain yourself. You can write as much or as little as you would like, but the words will be all yours. You can create the context. You can make sure that all issues are addressed. You can take issue with individuals or the media as a whole. Your words, your message.
writing bills firsts
Go out there and get rich. Get so obnoxiously rich that when that tax bill comes, your first thought will be to choke on how big a check you have to write.
writing world language
We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it. P. D. James
writing matter ink
Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter. William Shakespeare
writing hands fortune
Will Fortune never come with both hands full, But write her fair words still in foulest terms?
writing people fiction
The marvellous thing about writing, whether it be fiction or journalism, is that it is simultaneously the most intimate and the most anonymous of meetings between people. It is profoundly intimate in reaching into the psyche of another, at the same time as being devoid of social characteristics, cultural characteristics, economic characteristics. Will Self
writing divine-guidance goal
Set goals that are well balanced-not too many nor too few, and not too high nor too low. Write down your attainable goals and work on them according to their importance. Pray for divine guidance in your goal setting. M. Russell Ballard
writing night brain
I'm a fairly ascetic person. And I do most of my writing at night. You don't get distracted, your brain goes into what you are writing about, into the world you're writing about, rather than into the world you're in. Caleb Carr
writing the-end-of-the-day quitting
At the end of the day, we have to write music that makes us happy and the day that we stop loving what we do…we’ll quit. Caleb Followill
writing want ends
In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper. Caitlin Moran
writing should-have dull
Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
writing research
I do like the research part of writing, I must admit. C. J. Box
writing silence eating
The more I write, the more the silence seems to be eating away at me. C. K. Williams
writing waiting different
Poems have a different music from ordinary language, and every poem has a different kind of music of necessity, and that's, in a way, the hardest thing about writing poetry is waiting for that music, and sometimes you never know if it's going to come.
writing thinking editors
I formed a resolution to never write a word I did not want to write; to think only of my own tastes and ideals, without a thought of those of editors or publishers. C. S. Forester
writing home wrecks
Novel writing wrecks homes.
writing way ends
There is no other way of writing a novel than to begin at the beginning at to continue to the end.
writing novel knows
Novel writing is far and away the most exhausting work I know.
writing men doe
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
writing night months
Writing day and night for months ... that's hard. C. J. Cherryh
writing long garbage
It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.
writing fiction world
I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible things that happen every day in the world. Which I have no interest in doing. Bryan Fuller
writing made feels
I feel that if you made your writing too contrived to meet the market, it wouldn't be any good. Cathy Marie Buchanan
writing power men
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I am, I write on the susceptible skins of living beings. Catherine the Great