Quotes about writing
writing consolation surprising
[N]othing is as surprising as life. Except for writing. Except for writing. Yes, of course, except for writing, the only consolation. Orhan Pamuk
writing years trying
A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.
writing house freedom-of-speech
When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.
writing years fiction
Nothing changed in my life since I work all the time," Pamuk said then. "I've spent 30 years writing fiction. For the first 10 years I worried about money and no one asked me how much money I made. The second decade I spent money and no one was asking me about that. And I've spent the last 10 years with everyone expecting to hear how I spend the money, which I will not do.
writing years mind
A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is: when I speak of writing, what comes first to my mind is not a novel, a poem, or literary tradition, it is a person who shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and alone, turns inward; amid its shadows, he builds a new world with words.
writing beast
Writing is the beast unto itself. Omar Epps
writing miracle roles
I feel it most in my work, because there aren't roles about women who are spiritually evolving. That anyone would even write something like that, something that's worth doing, would be a miracle! Olympia Dukakis
writing tasks wheat
As difficult as it is for a writer to find a publisher-admittedly a daunting task-it is twice as difficult for a publisher to sort through the chaff, select the wheat, and profitably publish a worthy list. Olivia Goldsmith
writing science thinking
Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks? Oliver Wendell Holmes
writing secret ass
The secret to writing a screenplay is keeping your ass in the chair. Oliver Stone
writing ass chairs
writing = ass + chair
writing quality goes-on
I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life. Oliver Sacks
writing men creative
I like men who paint or write or do something creative. Olga Kurylenko
writing ideas down-and
I don't actually sit down and write, but I just have a lot of different ideas about films and making movies. Obie Trice
writing beats studios
I get the music, I get the beats. And I go to the studios and write the lyrics.
writing giving secret
I'll give you the whole secret to short story writing. Here it is. Rule 1: Write stories that please yourself. There is no Rule 2. O. Henry
writing stories forget
If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
writing giving secret
I'll give you the sole secret of short-story writing, and here it is: Rule 1. Write stories that please yourself. There is no rule 2. The technical points you can get from Bliss Perry. If you can't write a story that pleases yourself, you will never please the public. But in writing the story forget the public.
writing
Write what you like; there is no other rule.
writing fiction natural
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest. Octavia Butler
writing novel wanted
Well, writing was what I wanted to do, it was always what I wanted to do. I had novels to write so I wrote them.
writing trying fancy
I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.
writing character people
The only black people you found were occasional characters or characters who were so feeble-witted that they couldn't manage anything, anyway. I wrote myself in, since I'm me and I'm here and I'm writing.
writing worry people
Most of us don't have to worry about being shot of we poke our noses outside. So we are comfortable, but the people I'm writing about are definitely not comfortable, and being shot while they're still inside is a good possibility.
writing stories i-can
...I can write my own stories and I can write myself in.
writing rejection painful
Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.
writing thinking eight
It's interesting how many science fiction writers get going when they are very young. I was on a program with Greg Bear and he mentioned that he had gotten started writing when he was eight. And I began writing when I was 10. I think we're influenced by the stuff, we find it and we love it and we're influenced by it....I know I collected my first rejection slip when I was 13, and I went on collecting them for a long time after that.
writing long comeback
No... a novel is a long business. I'm a slow writer, even when I'm doing very well I write slowly.
writing alive theory
I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.
writing firsts fantasy
Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about.
writing persistence stories
If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write, you can tell any story you want to tell.
writing toilets littles
And I have this little litany of things they can do. And the first one, of course, is to write - every day, no excuses. It's so easy to make excuses. Even professional writers have days when they'd rather clean the toilet than do the writing.
writing frustration profession
Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.