Quotes about writing
writing darling
In writing, you must kill all your darlings. William Faulkner
writing dostoyevsky written
If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoyevsky, all of us.
writing fiction telling-the-truth
A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.
writing men thinking
At one time I thought the most important thing was talent. I think now that the young man must possess or teach himself, training himself, in infinite patience, which is to try and to try until it comes right. He must train himself in ruthless intolerance-that is to throw away anything that is false no matter how much he might love that page or that paragraph. The most important thing is insight, that is to be-curiosity-to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does, and if you have that, then I don't think the talent makes much difference, whether you've got it or not.
writing artist editors
The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.
writing ideas simplicity
When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't.
writing thinking written
I never know what I think about something until I read what I've written on it.
writing heart agony
the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat
writing men firsts
No man can write who is not first a humanitarian
writing trying doe
I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't and then tries the short story which is the most demanding form after poetry. And failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.
writing two imagination
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of the others.
writing artist solitude
The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.
writing
Don't be 'a writer'. Be writing.
writing epic study
Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
writing doubt owing
The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings. Willard Van Orman Quine
writing computer surprise
This will surprise some of your readers, but my primary interest is not with computer security. I am primarily interested in writing software that works as intended. Wietse Venema
writing interesting challenges
Writing software that's safe even in the presence of bugs makes the challenge even more interesting.
writing safe difficult
However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.
writing giving godlike
What I like about writing is the sense of godlike power it gives you. Wilbur Smith
writing color play
[On writing to Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple:] I told her I would play a Venetian blind, dirt on the floor, anything. Whoopi Goldberg
writing keys lines
I sometimes have to write for a while before I figure it out, pretend that I know what I'm doing, sort of like ad-libbing on stage until you remember your line - you hope you sound convincing to the audience. The key is to have enough material, enough threads, so that there's something that can be satisfyingly drawn to a conclusion. Said Sayrafiezadeh
writing editing simplicity
There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity. Saint Francis de Sales
writing giving zenith
For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next. Saint Augustine
writing numbers
I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write.
writing voice use
While most of the music I write is instrumental, I love to use the human voice as another instrument. Yanni
writing speech able
Not being able to read and write music is not the same as being illiterate in speech and writing.
writing frustration waiting
I tend to avoid writing music about initial reactions to situations, like frustration or anger. I’d rather wait till I go through the problem, and write about the learning that took place.
writing looks emotion
When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out. Yael Naim
writing special doe
There is not a special imposition on writers to be activists. All that does is encourage writers to write propaganda. Wole Soyinka
writing thinking play
Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for.
writing important gestation
I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper.
writing down-and lessons
But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.
writing able sometimes
Sometimes I write quickly, sometimes I spend several weeks on a single poem. I would really love for readers not to be able to guess which of the poems took so much work! Wislawa Szymborska