Quotes about writing
writing judging fit
Never judge your own writing. You're not fit to do so. Isaac Asimov
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.
writing long-ago mind
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing — to be clear.
writing firsts steps
The first step in making rabbit stew is catching the rabbit.
writing science love-is
Thinking is the activity I love best, and writing to me is simply thinking through my fingers. I can write up to 18 hours a day. Typing 90 words a minute, I've done better than 50 pages a day. Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up-well, maybe once.
writing sleep typewriters
Whenever I have endured or accomplished some difficult task -- such as watching television, going out socially or sleeping -- I always look forward to rewarding myself with the small pleasure of getting back to my typewriter and writing something.
writing science fiction
Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.
writing long-ago mind
I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics-Well, they can do whatever they wish.
writing interest interruptions
Writing is my only interest. Even speaking is an interruption.
writing thinking fingers
Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
writing creative world
No one suggests that writing about science will turn the entire world into a model of judgment and creative thought. It will be enough if they spread the knowledge as widely as possible.
writing teach
It's the writing that teaches you.
writing firsts duty
Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else. Iris Chang
writing thinking may
I may attempt a novel. I think that no matter what you write, it requires being honest with oneself, and you have to pull yourself out of the whirlwind of daily life.
writing people liberty
For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction.
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 relax certain
There are certain things that make me relax, like writing my journal. That's the only time that I'm relaxing. It's the only time I really get to examine myself. Jessica Simpson
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 fighting men
All men have talents. Some build, some paint, some write, some fight. For me it is different. David Gemmell
writing europe stuff
In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff. David Bowie
writing stories process
When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me. David E. Kelley
writing way feels
The way I personally work is I like to write what I know, what I feel, and also where I am.
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 vivid-imagination world
I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus. David Baldacci
writing expectations able
But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.
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