Quotes about writing
writing novel wanted
I was convinced that the only thing I wanted to do ever - was write novels. J. K. Rowling
writing potters want
I will carry on writing, to be sure. But I don't know if I would want to publish again after Harry Potter. J. K. Rowling
writing goodness epitome
I loved writing Dumbledore and he is the epitome of goodness. J. K. Rowling
writing boys ideas
I had the idea of a boy who was a wizard and didn't yet know what he was. I never sat down and wondered, "What shall I write about next?". It just came, fully formed. J. K. Rowling
writing years focus
I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in mind. I have to continue telling the story the way I want to tell it. J. K. Rowling
writing thinking imagination
I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing about the occult." My wizarding world is a world of imagination. I think it is a moral world. J. K. Rowling
writing who-you-are
What you write becomes who you are… So make sure you love what you write! J. K. Rowling
writing mushrooms ruthless
Be ruthless about protecting writing days. J. K. Rowling
writing thinking kind
Writing for me is a kind of compulsion, so I don't think anyone could have made me do it, or prevented me from doing it. J. K. Rowling
writing brain cafes
Writing and cafes are strongly linked in my brain. J. K. Rowling
writing movement vehicle
There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing. J. K. Rowling
writing
I've been writing my entire life, and I'll always write. J. K. Rowling
writing plot outlining
I always have a basic plot outline, but I like to leave some things to be decided while I write. J. K. Rowling
writing want babysitter
I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write. J. K. Rowling
writing vocabulary giving
The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary. J. K. Rowling
writing want audience
In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write. J. K. Rowling
writing thinking ideas
I think that perhaps if I had had to slow down the ideas so that I could capture them on paper I might have stifled some of them. J. K. Rowling
writing thinking average
The great body of physical science, a great deal of the essential fact of financial science, and endless social and political problems are only accessible and only thinkable to those who have had a sound training in mathematical analysis, and the time may not be very remote when it will be understood that for complete initiation as an efficient citizen of one of the new great complex worldwide States that are now developing, it is as necessary to be able to compute, to think in averages and maxima and minima, as it is now to be able to read and write. H. G. Wells
writing stronger world
No compulsion in the world is stronger than the urge to edit someone else's document. H. G. Wells
writing passion editing
No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft. H. G. Wells
writing littles life-is
Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another. H. G. Wells
writing way walks
I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there. H. G. Wells
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. Grace Paley
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. Friedrich Nietzsche
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