Quotes about writing
writing path trouble
The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text. Umberto Eco
writing poet publish
All poets write bad poetry. Bad poets publish them, good poets burn them.
writing hands left-hand
I feel that I am a scholar who only with the left hand writes novels.
writing thinking weekend
I think of myself as a serious professor who, during the weekend, writes novels.
writing past trying
It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
writing sunday professors
I am a professor who writes novels on Sundays
writing
I write what I write.
writing thinking portraits
[In my writing] I know that I have made a caricature out of [others' academic] theories [but] I think that caricatures are frequently good portraits.
writing obvious publish
Socrates ... did not write. It seems academically obvious that he perished because he did not publish!
writing shopping lists
There is only one thing that you write for yourself, and that is a shopping list.
writing ideas creating
An idea you have might not be original. But by creating a novel out of that idea you can make it original.
writing world fiction
I love the secrecy of writing fiction. When I write a novel, I don't tell anybody what I'm doing. I'm living in my private world. And it's a great sensation.
writing role-models roles
I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it).
writing mean artist
When the writer (or the artist in general) says he has worked without giving any thought to the rules of the process, he simply means he was working without realizing he knew the rules.
writing remember poet
When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.
writing glasses two
Given that there are seven billion people living on this earth, there is a consistent quantity of imbecile or idiot, okay. Previously, these people could express themselves only with their friends or at the bar after two or three glasses of something, and they said every silliness, and people laughed. Now they have the possibility to show up on the internet. And so, on the internet, along with the messages of a lot of interesting and important people - even the Pope is writing on Twitter - we have a great quantity of idiots.
writing media careers
A lot of people can figure out the social media aspect of it, or the merchandising aspect, or whatever and get enough momentum to start a career. To sustain it, you have to keep writing and you have to keep creating. Tyler Hilton
writing trying weight
I try not to take on the weight or the burden of it. Once it's on the paper, I try to leave it, because I want to surrender to what I'm supposed to write about. Tyler Perry
writing paragraph
I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards. Truman Capote
writing obscure
Never be so brief as to become obscure. Tryon Edwards
writing paper understand-me
I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.
writing thinking weight
I think of myself as a stylist, and stylists can become notoriously obsessed with the placing of a comma, the weight of a semicolon.
writing thinking miserable
I think the only person a writer has an obligation to is himself. If what I write doesn't fulfill something in me, if I don't honestly feel it's the best I can do, then I'm miserable.
writing editors talking
Never demean yourself by talking back to a critic, never. Write those letters to the editor in your head, but don't put them on paper.
writing dark self
One day, I started writing, not knowing that I had chained myself for life to a noble but merciless master. When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended solely for self-flagellation... I'm here alone in my dark madness, all by myself with my deck of cards - and, of course, the whip God gave me.
writing clouds pieces
It's a very excruciating life facing that blank piece of paper every day and having to reach up somewhere into the clouds and bring something down out of them.
writing littles bad-writing
It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.
writing rewriting good-writing
Good writing is rewriting.
writing creative mind
Talent, and genius as well, is like a grain of pearl sand shifting about in the creative mind. A valued tormentor.
writing insightful training
When seriously explored, the short story seems to me the most difficult and disciplining form of prose writing extant. Whatever control and technique I may have I owe entirely to my training in this medium.
writing comeback typing
That's not writing, that's typing
writing tvs
I like to talk on TV about those things that aren't worth writing about.
writing discovery self
There is really no practical help that one can offer; it is a matter of self-discovery, of one's own convictions, or working with one's own work; your style is what seems natural to you. It is a long process of discovery, one that never ends. I am working at it, and will be as long as I live.