Quotes about writing
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. Harlan Ellison
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 doe warfare
Entertain, yes. That goes without saying. But a good writer does that automatically, it's built into the machine. Telling a thumpingly good, mesmerizing story is what one does without question. But beyond that, any writer worth his/her hire knows that all writing, one way or another, is subversive. It is guerrilla warfare against the status quo.
writing holy millionaire
You're a writer. And that's something better than being a millionaire. Because it's something holy.
writing audience knows
I usually say I write for the smartest, cleverest, wittiest audience I know, and that's me.
writing becoming tricks
The trick is not becoming a writer. The trick is staying a writer.
writing intelligent praise
Thank your readers and the critics who praise you, and then ignore them. Write for the most intelligent, wittiest, wisest audience in the universe: Write to please yourself.
writing reality glasses
There is no nobler chore in the craft of writing than holding up the mirror of reality and turning it slightly, so we have a new and different perception of the commonplace, the everyday, the 'normal,' the obvious. People are reflected in the glass. The fantasy situation into which you thrust them is the mirror itself. And what we are shown should illuminate and alter our perception of the world around us. Failing that, you have failed totally.
writing absolutes kate
Kate Atkinson is an absolute must-read. I love everything she writes. Harlan Coben
writing house fax
My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.
writing bores-you fire
I love stories. When I'm writing, what I pretend subconsciously is that we're cavemen, we're sitting around the fire, and I'm telling you stories. If I bore you, you're probably going to pick up a big club and hit me over the head.
writing littles busy
Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
writing would-be boring
I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.
writing care annoying
The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it. A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
writing voice should
I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.
writing trying mountain
Writing a novel in general is like trying to reach a mountain top you'll never quite reach - so you try again and maybe get a little closer.
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
writing simple more-time
If you don't have time to read, then you have more time to write. Simple as that. Stephen King
writing thinking political
I don't like political poetry, and I don't write it. If this question was pointing towards that, I think it is missing the point of the American tradition, which is always apolitical, even when the poetry comes out of politically active writers. Diane Wakoski
writing down-and pages
The best tip for writing is just to write; to sit down and write, to begin doing it and not to be scared by the blank page. David Almond
writing simple psychics
'I need milk' and 'I need to decide whether to buy this company' both tie up space in psychic RAM. The solution is simple. Write it down. Look at it. Do it or say to yourself 'not now'. David Allen
writing trying together
With these Funny or Die videos, I do everything for them. I write them, act in them, and co-direct them with my buddy Brian McGinn, who I grew up with. We also edit them together. We're working on a small scale of Internet videos, but we're slowly trying to make them become a bigger thing. Dave Franco
writing love-is lawyer
I love being a lawyer more than I like writing. David Shapiro
writing editors editing
I tend to write things seven times before I show them to my editor. I write them seven times, then I take them on tour, read them like a dozen times on tour, then go back to the room and rewrite, read and rewrite... I would never show him a first draft, because then he's really going to be sick of it by the twelfth draft. David Sedaris
writing watches glee
I cry all the time when I watch 'Glee' because I don't know if it's satire or melodrama and that makes me feel like the writing is aware of itself, and that makes it OK to cry.
writing thinking people
When I look at a lot of older stuff that I've written, I think one sign of amateur humor writing is when you see people trying too hard.
writing giving people
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
writing thinking wells
To write is to think, and to write well is to think well, David McCullough
writing thinking suffering
The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think....Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.
writing love-is thinking
I can fairly be called an amateur because I do what I do, in the original sense of the word - for love, because I love it. On the other hand, I think that those of us who make our living writing history can also be called true professionals.
writing thinking play
You can't learn to play the piano without playing the piano, you can't learn to write without writing, and, in many ways, you can't learn to think without thinking. Writing is thinking. To write well is to think clearly. That's why it's so hard.
writing editing self
Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again. David Mitchell
writing emotional thinking
In terms of writing, I think something happens to you, and you think, "Oh I'm going to write about that. That's an emotional event." But obviously, if you keep going, and it's something you do with regularity, you've got to find other ways to write. David Gray