Quotes about writing
writing long survival
Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity. Haruki Murakami
writing swans ugly-duckling
I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind of an ugly duckling. Always the duckling, never the swan.
writing stories serious
I write weird stories. I don't know why I like weirdness so much ... But when I write, I write weird. That's very strange. When I'm getting more and more serious, I'm getting more and more weird.
writing trying stories
In my younger days, I was trying to write sophisticated prose and fantastic stories.
writing style enjoy
I'm not a fast reader. I like to linger over each sentence, enjoying the style. If I don't enjoy the writing, I stop.
writing gun stories
According to Chekhov," Tamaru said, rising from his chair, "once a gun appears in a story, it has to be fired." "Meaning what?" "Meaning, don't bring unnecessary props into a story. If a pistol appears, it has to be fired at some point. Chekhov liked to write stories that did away with all useless ornamentation.
writing together crumbling
It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.
writing men bars
I closed my own jazz bar so I could be a man who can write novels as I like. I was pleased about that. This pleasure was connected to the pleasure of writing.
writing want mature
Writers have to keep on writing if they want to mature, like caterpillars endlessly chewing on leaves.
writing originality said
The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
writing past history
Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past.
writing busy idleness
Writing is busy idleness.
writing profound perfect
The style of writing required in the great world is distinguished by a free and daring grace, a careless security, a fine and sharp polish, a delicate and perfect taste; while that fitted for the people is characterized by a vigorous natural fulness, a profound depth of feeling, and an engaging naivete.
writing mind obscurity
He who would reproach an author for obscurity should look into his own mind to see whether it is quite clear there. In the dusk the plainest writing is illegible.
writing history sin
Sin writes histories, goodness is silent.
writing long-ago people
People no longer write letters. Lacking the leisure, and, for the most part, the ability, they dictate dispatches, and scribble messages. When you are in the humor, you should take a peep at some of the letters written by people who lived long ago. Joel Chandler Harris
writing self paper
Write about what you know and care deeply about. When one puts one's self on paper - that is what is called good writing.
writing waiting records
I'm making records, my fans they can't wait. They write me letters, tell me I'm great. Joe Walsh
writing thinking cinema
I think my dyslexia was a vital part of my development because my inability to read and write meant that I had to find knowledge elsewhere so I looked to the cinema. Joe Wright
writing way orderly
I'm actually rather orderly, although the way that I write is not. Joanna Trollope
writing bad-things knows
I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar. Joaquin Andujar
writing sky awful
I saw the lightnings gleaming rod. Reach forth and write upon the sky The awful autograph of God. Joaquin Miller
writing listening sitting
I enjoy writing rhymes and sitting alone in a room listening to beats. It's pretty amazing. Joaquin Phoenix
writing littles madness
The process of writing is a little like madness, a kind of possession not altogether benign. Joanne Harris
writing editing relax
I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.
writing laptops needs
I can write absolutely anywhere. All I need is a laptop.
writing broken-inside needs
You don't write because someone sets assignments! You write because you need to write, or because you hope someone will listen or because writing will mend something broken inside you or bring something back to life.
writing care want
If you can still write in spite of the fact that you're not getting paid, that nobody cares about what you're writing, that nobody wants to publish it, that everybody is telling you to do something else, and you still want to and you still enjoy it and you can't stop doing it...then you're a writer.
writing influence crime
My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with. Jo Nesbo
writing teens novel
Ever since I was in my teens I had plans at one point in my life to write a novel.
writing evil ambitious
I tell myself I write because I want to say something true and original about the nature of evil. That is very ambitious - to say something about the human condition that hasn't been written before. Probably I will never succeed but that is what I strive to do.
writing ideas plot
Normally I start with a plot, and write a synopsis, and the ideas come from the construction.
writing trying stories
All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led.