Quotes about writing
writing rabbits accidents
We don't usually write up accidents involving rabbits. - Joe Morelli Janet Evanovich
writing listening cabins
When I'm playing with circular saws, I'm offline (though often listening to podcasts) and when I sit in the cabin to read or write, it's wonderful to be offline for a few hours at a time. Ethan Zuckerman
writing passion america
In America, where writers are preoccupied with the craft of writing, I always try to introduce this concept of the badly written good story. Turning the hierarchy around and putting passion on top and not craft, because when you just focus on craft, you can write something that is very sterile. Etgar Keret
writing important clarity
Often in writing programs, articulation and clarity are more important than what you actually say.
writing law space
Nobody else in the world would look at writing as craftsmanship - it's totally this Protestant hardworking ethic. You go into this kind of infinite space of imagination and you fence yourself in with all kinds of laws.
writing evil people
I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place where we can try to be human.
writing incentives seeing
I never know the endings when I write. It's a turnoff when you know the ending. You lose much of your incentive to write when you already know. It's like seeing a movie a second time.
writing people feelings
All my writing-life people kept telling me that I should stop writing short stories and start writing novels: my agent, my Israeli publisher, my foreign ones, my bank manager - they all felt and keep feeling that I'm doing something wrong here.
writing wife stories
I remember a point in [writing] the story where I said, "This isn't working, I should go and buy something at the supermarket or my wife will kill me." Then I said, "No, I'll go on."
writing people stories
I usually start writing stories from tone and not from content - kind of like people who create music and invent the lyrics later on.
writing fiction moments
Writing is very castrating in the moment. Fiction in general, it has no function, nobody asks for it.
writing thinking should
I think when you write, you should call it a "writing spree." I don't write every day, and I don't write regularly.
writing gps surfing
Writing a story is kind of like surfing, as opposed to the novel, where you use a GPS to get somewhere. With surfing, you kind of jump.
writing stories language
When I started writing my stories, I thought that not only nobody outside my language, but nobody outside my neighbourhood would get them.
writing emotion reason
The reason I write is that I'm not in dialogue with my emotions; writing puts me in touch with myself.
writing army space
In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.
writing israel roles
In Israel, the role of the writer is dictated by the language in which you write. Writers see themselves as cultural prophets.
writing thinking stories
I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.
writing army training
I was first introduced to Kafka's writing during my compulsory army-service basic training. During that period, Kafka's fiction felt hyperrealistic.
writing mean different
Writing is a way of living other lives. It is a way of expanding your life. It's not actually living a different life, it just means that you're hungry for life. There are so many things you want to do.
writing speech littles
I write in a slangy colloquial speech that has not been common in the Israeli tradition of writing, and that is one of the things that gets lost a little in translation.
writing stories may
I used to feel that if I say something's wrong, I have to say how it could be made right. But what I learned from Kurt Vonnegut was that I could write stories that say I may not have a solution, but this is wrong - that's good enough.
writing band moments
The writing process was some of the most exciting and rewarding moments of my life. It felt a lot like being in a band. Ethan Hawke
writing broken legs
My table is now brightly, now dimly lighted. Its temperature varies. It may receive an ink stain. One of its legs may be broken. It may be repaired, polished, and replaced part by part. But, for me, it remains the table at which I daily write. Ernst Mach
writing society common
anyone who writes about "Darwin's theory of evolutionin the singular, without segregating the theories of gradual evolution, common descent, speciation, and the mechanism of natural selection, will be quite unable to discuss the subject competently. Ernst Mayr
writing thinking documentaries
I never intended to be a documentary filmmaker. I think I became a documentary filmmaker because I had trouble writing, and I had trouble finishing things. Errol Morris
writing talking people
Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.
writing envy different
I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.
writing past trying
All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened. Ernest Gaines
writing wanted feels
I had to see and feel and be with the thing that I wanted to write about.
writing objectivity i-can
I write with as much objectivity as I can.
writing trying pages
I try to write something that would interest anybody and keep them turning the page. You must have a plot and good storyline.
writing wife neglect
I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I was afraid it wouldn't be the writing.