Quotes about writing
writing men
History, writing, infect after a time a man's sense of himself... A. S. Byatt
writing light solitude
What I need to write well is a combination of heat, light and solitude.
writing poison terrible
It's a terrible poison, writing.
writing ease world
The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
writing good-writing
Good writing is always new.
writing want and-love
I do not want to be a relative and passive being, anywhere. I want to live and love and write.
writing ink hops
Only write to me, write to me, I love to see the hop and skip and sudden starts of your ink.
writing school artist
There are many ways of writing badly about painting... There is an 'appreciative' language of threadbare, not inaccurate, but overexposed and irritating words... the language of the schools which 'situates' works and artists in schools and movements... novelists and poets [that] see paintings as allegories of writing...
writing focus acting
I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting. Abby Elliott
writing paper pieces
I'm always writing lyrics. I have so many lyrics on so many stray pieces of paper. Everywhere. Abbie Cornish
writing notes dialogue
I only make notes, I don't write dialogues in full. And the notes are very much based on my knowledge of person. Abbas Kiarostami
writing complicated process
The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning. A. B. Yehoshua
writing printed-word people
Science fiction is a field of writing where, month after month, every printed word implies to hundreds of thousands of people: 'There is change. Look, today's fantastic story is tomorrow's fact. A. E. van Vogt
writing years ideas
It came about as follows: over the years when I was involved in dianetics, I wrote the beginnings of many stories. I would get an idea, and then write the beginning, and then never touch it again.
writing cost pay
I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
writing play history
If the English language had been properly organized ... then there would be a word which meant both 'he' and 'she', and I could write, 'If John or Mary comes heesh will want to play tennis', which would save a lot of trouble. A. A. Milne
writing oxford cambridge
What distinguishes Cambridge from Oxford, broadly speaking, is that nobody who has been to Cambridge feels impelled to write about it.
writing editing long
For I am a bear of very little brain, and long words bother me.
writing way pounds
They wanted to come in after the pounds", explained Pooh, "so I let them. It's the best way to write poetry, letting things come.
writing knowledge long
I long to create something that can't be used to keep us passive: I want to write a script about plumbing, how every pipe is joined to every other. Adrienne Rich
writing white history
We have seen over and over that white male historians in general have tended to dismiss any history they didn't themselves write,on the grounds that it is unserious, unscholarly, a fad, too "political," "merely" oral and thus unreliable.
writing ifs
You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.
writing voice liquid
Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone.
writing people lucky
She was a lucky woman who had established a happy knack of writing what quite a lot of people wanted to read. Agatha Christie
writing typewriters meals
All I needed was a steady table and a typewriter...a marble-topped bedroom washstand table made a good place; the dining-room table between meals was also suitable.
writing people comfort
Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.
writing history generations
The contemporary historian never writes such a true history as the historian of a later generation.
writing autobiography sooner-or-later
The urge to write one's autobiography, so I have been told, overtakes everyone sooner or later.
writing should-have imagine
I can't imagine why everybody is always so keen for authors to talk about writing. I should have thought it was an author's business to write, not talk.
writing soul stories
God bless my soul, woman, the more personal you are the better! This is a story of human beings - not dummies! Be personal - be prejudiced - be catty - be anything you please! Write the thing your own way. We can always prune out the bits that are libellous afterwards!
writing letters originality
I, myself, was always recognized . . . as the “slow one” in the family. It was quite true, and I knew it and accepted it. Writing and spelling were always terribly difficult for me. My letters were without originality. I was . . . an extraordinarily bad speller and have remained so until this day.
writing mind flaws
In old days the public didn't really mind much about accuracy, but nowadays readers take it upon themselves to write to authors on every possible occasion, pointing out flaws.
writing love-is found
I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up. Adriana Trigiani