Quotes about writing
writing fighting worry
I continued for too long to do things that I already knew how to do, or to write stories that I was assigned instead of fighting for stories that I couldn't get, or doing ones that I thought were important on my own. The wasting of time is the thing I worry about the most. Because time is all there is. Gloria Steinem
writing talking harder
Writing is always harder than talking.
writing written
I don't like writing. I like having written.
writing needs terrible
I began to understand with a terrible sureness that we teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.
writing people forever
Most writers write to say something about other people - and it doesn't last. Good writers write to find out about themselves - and it lasts forever.
writing creative-writing written
I do not like to write - I like to have written.
writing issues people
I would write about issues and people I met along the way, but not about the process and the life of being on the road.
writing pride accomplishment
For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (1) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead: (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, nce in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.
writing should feels
Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.
writing poetry literature
I do not write for the public. You are my public and I hope to convert you. Gerard Manley Hopkins
writing desire way
Write about the things that attract you. Choose your subjects the way you used to choose your toys: out of desire. Harry Mathews
writing anxiety way
What I said about John was that he liberated me from my anxieties about writing in a correct, acceptable way.
writing speech transformation
Translation is the paradigm, the exemplar of all writing.... It is translation that demonstrates most vividly the yearning for transformation that underlies every act involving speech, that supremely human gift.
writing years two-year-olds
I write like a two-year-old and I can't spell Harry Redknapp
writing needs tvs
I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it. J. Michael Straczynski
writing reflection space
When you're writing a story in bits and pieces, month in and month out, there really isn't time or space for reflection, no room to learn what those scripts had to teach you.
writing want contrast
There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.
writing asking next
Writing is the process of asking the next logical question.
writing white matter
I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
writing people stories
Budget grows out of the story. If you're writing a story with people caught in an elevator for most of the film, you're pretty sure it won't be a $200 million movie.
writing levels sometimes
Whenever you write for someone else, you're always aware - sometimes overtly, other times at an almost cellular, subliminal level - of the rules about what you can and can't do.
writing long immortality
Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered.
writing blow doubt
When in doubt, blow something up.
writing thinking style
I see no marks of Wordsworths style of writing or style of thinking in my own work, yet Wordsworth is a constant presence when I write about human beings and their relations to the natural world. J. M. Coetzee
writing heart animal
If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
writing publish
I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. But at times I have told myself that I don't necessarily have to publish anything else. J. K. Rowling
writing thinking littles
I think that emotionally, I've probably felt a little bit more balanced when I started writing again.
writing ideas might
I write nearly every day. Some days I write for ten or eleven hours. Other days I might only write for three hours. It really depends on how fast the ideas are coming.
writing airplane character
I can write anywhere. I made up the names of the characters on a sick bag while I was on an airplane. I told this to a group of kids and a boy said, "Ah, no, that's disgusting." And I said, "Well, I hadn't used the sick bag."
writing voice realizing
It's just hard," Harry said finally, in a low voice, "to realize he won't write me again
writing tree
You have to kill a lot of trees before you write anything good.
writing compulsion i-can
I'll be writing until I can't write anymore. It's a compulsion with me. I love writing.
writing eagles burning
Harry moved the tip of his eagle-feather quill down the page, frowning as he looked for something that would help him write his essay, “Witch Burning in the Fourteenth Century Was Completely Pointless — discuss.