Quotes about writing
writing ideas reform
Somewhere I put it this way: first drafts are for learning what one’s fiction wants him to say. Revision works with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to reform it. Revision is one of the exquisite pleasures of writing. Bernard Malamud
writing who-you-are
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are.
writing mirrors looks
I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you. Bill Withers
writing reflection way
I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me. Bill Watterson
writing two balance
Each kind of story has its own problems in writing, but my main concern really is to keep the reader on his toes, or to keep the strip unpredictable. I try to achieve some sort of balance between the two that keeps the reader wondering what's going to happen next and be surprised.
writing thinking ideas
I enjoy the drawing more than the writing, so I try to think of ideas that will allow me to develop the visual side of the strip as fully as possible.
writing light mind
Thought the mind can justify itself faster than the speed of light, it can be stopped through the act of writing. Byron Katie
writing judging four
Judge your neighbor, write it down. Ask four questions, turn it around.
writing done orchestra
I've done shows with orchestras, and I like writing with orchestras. Bryan Ferry
writing stories may
It's been a privilege to write for you and to have you accept me as a storyteller in your lives, Now, as my story draws to an end, may I say only, `Thank you. You have been simply wonderful'. Bryce Courtenay
writing trying appeals
I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else. Bryan Adams
writing thinking different
Sometimes with certain writing, you feel like you've got to be literal, hit it hard on the nose, just to get the point across. Good writing is more subversive I think - or good scenes. They are about one thing on the page but you can make it about something completely different. Chace Crawford
writing two three
For me, the process always has to be pretty intense. I could never write just two or three days a week. It had to be every day. Chad Harbach
writing poetry making-love
Remember, writing poetry is like making love: one will never know whether one's own pleasure is shared. Cesare Pavese
writing talking two
Writing is a fine thing, because it combines the two pleasures of talking to yourself and talking to a crowd.
writing kind
Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. Catherine Drinker Bowen
writing stories rejected
I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker. Caroline B. Cooney
writing voice incense
...you meditate and you got the candles, you got the incense and you've been chanting, and all of a sudden you hear this voice: 'Write this down' Carlos Santana
writing the-end-of-the-day quitting
At the end of the day, we have to write music that makes us happy and the day that we stop loving what we do…we’ll quit. Caleb Followill
writing research
I do like the research part of writing, I must admit. C. J. Box
writing men doe
A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted. C. S. Forester
writing long garbage
It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly. C. J. Cherryh
writing fiction world
I, as the writer, can be very clear that I am writing a work of heightened fiction, as opposed to documenting horrible things that happen every day in the world. Which I have no interest in doing. Bryan Fuller
writing want position
In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read. Catherine the Great
writing fire long
I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the old world looked at a woman alone and immortal and said: she must long to die, I have tried to say: look at her live! Catherynne M. Valente
writing novel ought
Someone ought to write a novel about me,
writing prejudice language
Every language reflects the prejudices of the society in which it evolved. Casey Miller
writing evil people
The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories. Carl Jung
writing fate men
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their humanity and yokes everything to the service of the work, even at the cost of health and ordinary human happiness. The unborn work in the psyche of the artist is a force of nature that achieves its end either with tyrannical might or with the subtle cunning of nature herself, quite regardless of the personal fate of the man who is its vehicle.
writing self-confidence thinking
I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot. Calvin Trillin
writing effort letters
A Train was born without any effort - if was like writing a letter to a friend. Billy Strayhorn
writing feels
I write about the things I feel strongly about. Dido Armstrong
writing dark two
I found that I could write two kinds of short stories: I could write very absurd, kind of surrealistic, funny stories; or I could write very dark, realistic - hyper-realistic - stories. I was never happy with that, because I couldn't meld the two. Dennis Lehane