Quotes about writing
writing long-walks pieces
A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk. Helen Dunmore
writing white numbers
It's amazing how much time and money can be saved in the world of dating by close attention to detail. A white sock here, a pair of red braces there, a gray slip-on shoe, a swastika, are as often as not all one needs to tell you there's no point in writing down phone numbers and forking out for expensive lunches because it's never going to be a runner. Helen Fielding
writing thinking confusion
I think that when you're writing fiction what you're doing is reflecting life as you see it, and putting down how you think and how other people think, and the sort of confusions that you don't normally like to admit to.
writing finance bridget-jones
I was writing an earnest novel about cruises in the Caribbean and I just started writing 'Bridget Jones' to get some money, to finance this earnest work, and then I chucked it out.
writing people diaries
The whole point of diaries is that other people find them and read what you've put. I did once take to writing my inner thoughts on the computer at the end of other things I was writing and ended up faxing four pages of hideous stuff to my accountant so I don't do that now.
writing people hurtful
For me, anything I do is totally up for conversation and it's not my right to be able to stop a person from writing whatever they want. What's harmful and hurtful is when people speculate. John Krasinski
writing reflection self
Ceaseless work, analysis, reflection, writing much, endless self-correction, that is my secret. Johann Sebastian Bach
writing men creating
How lucky is the man who, like Mozart and others, goes to the tavern of an evening and writes some fresh music. For he lives while he is creating. Johannes Brahms
writing trying purity
If we cannot write with the beauty of Mozart, let us at least try to write with his purity.
writing age occupation
Writing was my first occupation, begun at age 23. Johanna Lindsey
writing doe lines
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
writing men light
Someday someone will write a pathology of experimental physics and bring to light all those swindles which subvert our reason, beguile our judgement and, what is worse, stand in the way of any practical progress. The phenomena must be freed once and for all from their grim torture chamber of empiricism, mechanism, and dogmatism; they must be brought before the jury of man's common sense.
writing history sin
Sin writes histories, goodness is silent. [Ger., Das Uebel macht eine Geschichte und das Gute keine.]
writing perfect insightful
There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair. Haruki Murakami
writing waiting stories
When I start to write, I don't have any plan at all. I just wait for the story to come.
writing thinking artist
I don't think of myself as an artist. I'm just a guy who can write.
writing letters able
How wonderful it is to be able to write someone a letter! To feel like conveying your thoughts to a person, to sit at your desk and pick up a pen, to put your thoughts into words like this is truly marvelous.
writing quality important
You like to write. It's the single most important quality for someone who wants to be a writer. But not in itself enough.
writing people needs
Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.
writing long letters
I'll write to you. A super-long letter, like in an old-fashioned novel
writing garden forests
If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.
writing heart shadow
My short stories are like soft shadows I have set out in the world, faint footprints I have left. I remember exactly where I set down each and every one of them, and how I felt when I did. Short stories are like guideposts to my heart...
writing people floating
Information is floating around really fast. I write something, or a piece of my music comes out and I see people writing about it on the Internet as if I'm having a conversation with them. We've never met, but somehow, my music is communicating something to them. Very often, it really makes them feel something. Hans Zimmer
writing ideas long
The writing gets done away from the keyboard and away from the studio in my head, in solitude. And then I come in and hopefully have something, then I wrestle with sounds and picture all day long. But the ideas usually come from a more obscure place, like a conversation with a director, a still somebody shows you, or whatever.
writing feelings want
I want to go and write music that announces to you that you can feel something. I don’t want to tell you what to feel, but I just want you to have the possibility of feeling something.
writing doctors flying
Everybody has a talent, whether it's scrapbooking, or kite-flying, or brain surgery, or writing, everybody has a talent. And if they discover it, and they turn it to their purposes and make a living out of it, then they become not "that person," but they become "that writer" or "that doctor" or "that supervisor." Harlan Ellison
writing editors editing
Anyone who can not write should.
writing holy chores
Writing is a holy chore.
writing mean discovery
It is not merely enough to love literature if one wishes to spend one's life as a writer. It is a dangerous undertaking on the most primitive level. For, it seems to me, the act of writing with serious intent involves enormous personal risk. It entails the ongoing courage for self-discovery. It means one will walk forever on the tightrope, with each new step presenting the possiblity of learning a truth about oneself that is too terrible to bear.
writing coward commodity
Because the chief commodity a writer has to sell is his courage. And if he has none, he is more than a coward. He is a sellout and a fink and a heretic, because writing is a holy chore.
writing past rhythm
I'm nothing. Nothing at all without writing. Without truth, my truth, the only truth I know, it's all a gambol in the pasture without rhythm or sense.
writing soul trying
What I try to write about are the darkest things in the soul, the mortal dreads... The closer I get to the burning core of my being, the things which are most painful to me, the better is my work.
writing light manhattan
I live in Dublin, God knows why. There are greatly more congenial places I could have settled in - Italy, France, Manhattan - but I like the climate here, and Irish light seems to be essential for me and for my writing. John Banville