Quotes about writing
writing stories short-story
I write short stories. I write every day. Isaiah Mustafa
writing winter long
I had three choices: to conform to my own beliefs, which meant death; complete silence, which meant another kind of death; to pay a tribute, a bribe. I chose the third solution by writing The Long Winter.
writing lines directors
I still write. I'd love to write more trashy chick-lit. At the moment, I just re-write my own lines, which probably annoys most directors - though, thankfully not Adam Brooks! Isla Fisher
writing sorrow telling-stories
All sorrows can be borne if you can put them into a story. Isak Dinesen
writing despair littles
Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.
writing white long
I'm not against White writers writing about Blacks as long as they are as objective as say James McPherson writing about an Irish American janitor in his brilliant short story "Gold Coast." Ishmael Reed
writing mirrors hypocrisy
My work holds up the mirror to hypocrisy, which puts me in a tradition of American writing that reaches back to Nathaniel Hawthorne.
writing men fleeting
Writing has made me a better man. It has put me in contact with those fleeting moments which prove the existence.
writing justice definitions
Multicultural is not a description of a category of American writing-it is a definition of all American writing.
writing thinking long
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab, as long as my literary legs hold up.
writing world engaged
I have T.V. on all the time when I'm writing. I have music on. I'm engaged with the world.
writing imagination poetry
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
writing dwelling people
Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing. Iris Dement
writing i-can
I can recite poetry, but I cannot write it. Irrfan Khan
writing too-much good-business
If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers. Irvin S. Cobb
writing culture should
Writing is about culture and should be about everything. That's what makes it what it is. Irvine Welsh
writing people trying
The establishment, the newspapers, they try to create something called Scottish literature, but when people are actually going to write, they are not going to necessarily prescribe to that, they'll write what they feel.
writing ideas perfect
When people start writing there is this idea that you have to get everything right first time, every sentence has to be perfect, every paragraph has to be perfect, every chapter has to be perfect, but what youre doing is not any kind of public show, until youre ready for it.
writing kind mysticism
There is a kind of mysticism to writing.
writing fiction-and-nonfiction nonfiction
I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.
writing letters
The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future. Iris Murdoch
writing character fighting
It's exciting to get to write characters that love each other and fight for each other. Ilana Glazer
writing vivaldi
Vivaldi didn't write 400 concertos; he wrote one concerto 400 times. Igor Stravinsky
writing murder commit
Those who commit the murders write the reports. Ida B. Wells
writing long house
It's weird because my parents don't really understand my business. I get fan mail all day long, but if a piece happens to get to their house, they're like, 'Oh, my God, you've got a fan! You have to write them back. You have to do it! Idris Elba
writing pages weakness
Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page. Hyman Rickover
writing gears stuff
I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion. Hunter Hayes
writing people keith
There's a lot of people I'd like to write with, like Keith Urban or even as far out as Stevie Wonder.
writing needs records
I write for myself. I don't write because I have a record coming out. I write because I want to. I need to.
writing clue truth-is
Why do I write? The truth, the unvarnished truth, is that I haven't a clue. Gloria Naylor
writing creative able
One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.
writing artist america
There is a problem in America. An Irish or Polish American can write a story and it's an American story. When a Black American writes a story, it's called a Black story. I take exception to that. Every artist has articulated to his own experience. The problem is that some people do not see Blacks as Americans.
writing thinking age
I don't think age has anything to do with what you write about. Gloria Vanderbilt