Quotes about writing
writing thinking ifs
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself Guillermo Cabrera Infante
writing catholic bedtime
I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.
writing play serious
Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.
writing thinking cities
I think that I've tried many times to get Cuba in my writings, especially Havana, which was once a great and fascinating city.
writing mean pages
When I write, the first blank page, or any blank page, means nothing to me. What means something is a page that has been filled with words.
writing needs form
Screenplay is the toughest form of writing for me, because you need to be in present tense. You need to be describing things as they occur. Guillermo del Toro
writing perfect function
I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function. Greg Iles
writing discipline want
I continue to write. It's just one of those things that I do. I'll have periods when I write and periods when I don't. But you don't want it to become a discipline really. If it becomes a discipline, it becomes a chore and that's no good. Greg Lake
writing numbers omission
I did write a number of reports on my political experiences, but there were many omissions, and I feel bad about that because it was work that was interesting and had I written more about it, it could have been useful. Grace Paley
writing crafts knows
Write from what you know into what you don't know.
writing movement knows
The women's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write.
writing add four
I might write four lines or I might write twenty. I subtract and I add until I really hit something I want to do. You don't always whittle down, sometimes you whittle up.
writing should-have done
I know I've done good work. I've been very serious about my writing, and I've done the best that I could. But I don't feel that I've done more than I should have. In fact, I've done less than I should have.
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.
writing needs
You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.
writing knows
We write about what we don't know about what we know....
writing past fiction
I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.
writing vocabulary useless
My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.
writing justice possibility
I write for the still, small possibility of justice.
writing people trying
I am very interested in people trying to write because I don't have a big academic background at all.
writing people sometimes
People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics.
writing dont-lie ifs
Write what will stop your breath if you don’t write.
writing rejection wells
Your success as a writer will probably not depend on how well you write so much as in how you handle rejections. Gilbert Morris
writing sweat dozen
Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen. Jack London
writing information way
The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person. J. Robert Oppenheimer
writing important actors
You really have to get out of an actor's head to write because actors only care about their part and it revolves around their part so "This is the important part because this is the part where..." . Grant Heslov
writing thinking stories
Writing a screenplay is like writing a big puzzle, and so the hardest part, I think, is getting the story.
writing dark horror-stories
I thought I could capture the stories of the city on paper. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city. Horror stories you see. I tell you I didn't have to look far for material. Everywhere I looked, there were stories hidden there in the dark corners. . . . I wrote and still there were more. . . . No one would publish them. 'Too horrible,' they said. 'Sick mind,' they said. I thought I could write about the horrors of the city but the horror is too big and it goes on forever. Grant Morrison
writing men trying
A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly. Georg C. Lichtenberg
writing men worry
The writer who cannot sometimes throw away a thought about which another man would have written dissertations, without worry whether or not the reader will find it, will never become a great writer.
writing intelligent people
Many intelligent people, when about to write . . . , force on their minds a certain notion about style, just as they screw up their faces when they sit for their portraits.
writing thinking world
What concerns me alone I only think, what concerns my friends I tell them, what can be of interest to only a limited public I write, and what the world ought to know is printed...
writing knows
To write brashly about some things, it is almost necessary not to know much about them.