Quotes about writing
writing reason wanted
That's the reason I left the networks. I wanted to write and report and coanchor. Bill Kurtis
writing long-ago editors
I started to write a new editor not too long ago and had it about half done after two days. Bill Joy
writing editors satisfaction
Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love. Bill Keller
writing who-i-am wind
I gasp, because Isn't that just exactly what I've been doing too: writing poems and scattering them to the winds with the same hope as Gram that someone, someday, somewhere might understand who I am, who my sister was, and what happened to us. Jandy Nelson
writing people mouths
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. Jane Austen
writing
I am not at all in a humor for writing; I must write on till I am.
writing practice style
It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal.
writing laughing people
I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, & if it were indispensable for me to keep it up & never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style & go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other.
writing aunt letters
And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected.
writing
How can you contrive to write so even?
writing effort style
I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing.
writing style
My style of writing is very diffrent from yours.
writing suspense ends
Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself.
writing worry stories
Writing a story is like going down a path in the woods. You follow the path. You don't worry about getting lost. You just go. Jan Brett
writing home choices
Whenever I started writing music, it just naturally led itself there. As I started to tell my story, it's where my home was. It's just a very natural choice. Jamie Lynn Spears
writing people faults
I write because it makes God happy that I write. I sing because it makes God happy that I sing. And if it makes God's people happy, then all the better. But if it fails to do so, it's probably my fault. Jamey Johnson
writing sitting-still wish
I wish I could write while I'm on the road but it never works for me. I need to be sitting still. Jami Attenberg
writing emotional historical-novels
I've been told by people who write historical novels that you just sort of write the emotional truth first, the story at the core, and then you go back and research it at the end.
writing thinking contemporary-fiction
Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There's much to be said. We're on it, chief.
writing romance great-american
Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead. Jasmine Cresswell
writing play two
I occasionally play works by contemporary composers and for two reasons. First to discourage the composer from writing any more and secondly to remind myself how much I appreciate Beethoven. Jascha Heifetz
writing work-out messages
And I've always loved commercials. I like working out how to organically weave a brand's message into the writing process. It's like an improv show, where comics ask the audience to throw out a word and a skit is built around it. Jason Bateman
writing people peers
It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers. Janis Ian
writing burning gaps
There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die. Janette Turner Hospital
writing dark light
I've found you can go on writing in the dark, and that the act of writing itself, that mysterious, dangerous, intoxicating, absorbing, nourishing magician's trick, that act of creation is its own light.
writing issues goes-on
It often seems to me that the biggest single issue for a writer is how to stay buoyant enough to go on writing. How not to drown.
writing impact discipline
For businesses, biomimicry is about bringing a new discipline - biology - to the design table. It's not to write an environmental impact statement, as most biologists in business do right now. Janine Benyus
writing done states
Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness, Janet Malcolm
writing haunting
I am not really a writer. I am just someone who is haunted, and I will write the hauntings down. Janet Frame
writing journey land
All writers--all beings--are exiles as a matter of course. The certainty about living is that it is a succession of expulsions of whatever carries the life force...All writers are exiles wherever they live and their work is a lifelong journey towards the lost land..
writing years land
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
writing thinking superstitions
I never think about the actual process of writing. I suppose I have a superstition about examining it too closely. Anne Tyler
writing wife window
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window. Burton Rascoe