Quotes about writing
writing too-much good-business
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. Irvin S. Cobb
writing kind mysticism
There is a kind of mysticism to writing. Irvine Welsh
writing hands deception
Bayle, when writing on "Comets," discovered this; for having collected many things applicable to his work, as they stood quoted in some modern writers, when he came to compare them with their originals, he was surprised to find that they were nothing for his purpose! the originals conveyed a quite contrary sense to that of the pretended quoters, who often, from innocent blundering, and sometimes from purposed deception, had falsified their quotations. This is an useful story for second-hand authorities! Isaac Disraeli
writing trying too-much
When a writer tries to explain too much, he's out of time before he begins. Isaac Bashevis Singer
writing perspective outsiders
I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider. Isaac Marion
writing cutting lessons
We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth-if such a thing can even be said to exist. Isaac Asimov
writing mind study
It often happens that things come into the mind in a more finished form than could have been achieved after much study. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
writing plot stories
I begin by writing paragraphs that don’t have an immediate relation to a plot. The sound of the story comes first. Grace Paley
writing dont-lie ifs
Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.
writing lays written
Everyone who has ever written will have discovered that writing always awakens something which, though it lay within us, we failed clearly to recognize before. Georg C. Lichtenberg
writing equipment our-thoughts
Our writing equipment takes part in forming our thoughts. Friedrich Nietzsche
writing two knowing
Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute readers.
writing political choices
My informal writing style is a political choice, because I want feminism to be more accessible. Jessica Valenti
writing emotional details
I realized going back and writing and explaining in details the difficulties I had lived actually became emotional again. It's like therapy but sometimes therapy can be painful. But it's part of life and part of the autobiography so I'll have to finish it sooner or later. Jenni Rivera
writing silence sound
I am in total silence when I write - I don't even like the sound of the dryer going - I like the quiet. Adriana Trigiani
writing way feels
The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am. David E. Kelley
writing long junk
Don’t be afraid to discard work you know isn’t up to standard. Don’t save junk, just because it took you a long time to write it. David Eddings
writing expectations able
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything. David Baldacci
writing thinking singing
I think actually singing the words is more therapeutic than just sitting down to write them, because then you are letting it out, and it's coming from your gut. Dave Grohl
writing thinking people
People who think well, write well David Ogilvy
writing acceptable
The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true. David Mamet
writing play long
A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.
writing opposites practice
I do keep a tiny little journal in which I write passages that I read and want to hold on to. This practice is sort of the opposite of Twitter. Dani Shapiro
writing garbage-cans house
My journals were a clearing house - a garbage can. Once I was writing seriously, I understood that this was the stuff that didn't belong in my work.
writing inspired terrified
No one inspired me to write, but writer Harlan Ellison terrified me into getting published. Dan Simmons
writing rocks built
Writing is the rock on which everything is built. Dan Rather
writing enough young
I can't seem to write young enough anymore. Cynthia Weil
writing play lunch
If you let anything infringe on your writing time, it will. And you won't get the writing done. Taking one day off can cost me five days of getting back in the mood. Going out to lunch can cost me anywhere from five hours to three days. And for me it's not worth it. For my own sense of well-being I have to finish my work before I can play. Danielle Steel
writing cake literature
A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
writing bored doe
I don't know why I started writing. I don't know why anybody does it. Maybe they're bored, or failures at something else. Cormac McCarthy
writing thinking people
Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that the only reason they find writing hard: they don't know or care about anything? Kurt Vonnegut
writing stories radio
Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.
writing stories sitting
I always write a story in one sitting. Katherine Anne Porter