Quotes about writing
writing thinking tone
I think striking the right tone for your story is, if you like, the alchemical work of writing. Julia Leigh
writing space roles
The point is the 'me' that you see before you is not the 'me' in my private little space, shape-shifting into the writing role, nor is it the 'me' that works with the actors. Here, at the end of the film doing interviews, I feel like I'm in disguise.
writing heart dukes
To this day, The Duke and I remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward. Julia Quinn
writing happy-endings knows
Happy endings are all I can do. I wouldn't know how to write anything else.
writing careers expectations
The biggest challenge of my career, which is something that authors of genre fiction face all the time, is writing something fresh and new and at the same time meeting reader expectations.
writing world ink
To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world.
writing suffering
Because to write, one must truly suffer. Juan Rulfo
writing long answers
Some of my affectionate envious friends say, "You write too much." Maybe, I answer. But as long as the best of your little is worse than the worst of my much, I will keep on doing so. Juan Ramon Jimenez
writing guitar use
Always when I write my music, I take my guitar, and I improvise always with a melody, you know, lyrics in Spanish. But sometimes I use some words in English. I don't know why. Maybe because I listen to a lot of music in English. Juanes
writing glasses fine-words
Words, like glasses, obscure everything they do not make clear. Before using a fine word, make a place for it. Joseph Joubert
writing fine-words fine
Before using a fine word, make a place for it.
writing air voice
The voice is a human sound which nothing inanimate can perfectly imitate. It has an authority and an insinuating property which writing lacks. It is not merely so much air, but air modulated and impregnated with life.
writing publish repeats
Write. Publish. Repeat. Kristine Kathryn Rusch
writing unique years
Rod Clark has one of the most unique voices I have ever encountered. I still quote some of his political insights years later. To have him write political science fiction is both appropriate and intriguing.
writing unique thinking
As one of my creative writing professors once said, there are only seven plots. What makes those plots different is how you handle them, your voice, your style, and your way of thinking. That’s all. People can mimic your style, but they can never achieve your unique point of view.
writing littles ocd
I can be a little OCD when it comes to my writing. Kristin Hannah
writing thinking play
Honestly, when you start talking about genres, you're talking as much about the business side of writing as anything else. Certainly there are elements of reader expectation that play into various genres, and those are important, but it also becomes about packaging, placement, audience....In the end, I'm not a fan of labels. I think the best fiction blurs the boundaries between genres, stretches and breaks them.
writing authenticity knows
I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from. K'naan
writing pissed-off sometimes
Sometimes I'll listen to a lyric and I'll be so pissed off that I didn't write it. King Krule
writing pleasure
I actually find a lot of pleasure in writing lyrics.
writing humanity historical
To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk
writing thinking brain
But what I realized when I was looking back at them was that no matter how different they are, they're still coming from me, and they're still coming from my brain and my set of obsessions. I think that no matter how different I tried to make them, there were just these certain questions that I just kept circling back to as I was writing. I think they were the ones I was really swept up in in that decade. Molly Antopol
writing thinking holocaust
It really made me nervous to write about it [Holocaust] and to approach it, because I was nervous about how to do it respectfully, and I was also thinking about how I could add something new to something that had already been so explored.
writing empathy style
Stuart Rojstaczer writes with enormous wit, style and empathy, and The Mathematician's Shiva is a big-hearted, rollickingly funny novel that's impossible to put down. A tremendous debut.
writing poetry criticism
One can be well-bred and write bad poetry Moliere
writing fine
That must be fine, for I don't understand a word.
writing men honorable-man
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
writing might chance
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody.
writing silence needs
I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words. Mohsin Hamid
writing novelists researchers
I am not much of a researcher as a novelist; I write mainly from experience.
writing novel invitations
For me, writing a novel is like solving a puzzle. But I don't intend my novels as puzzles. I intend them as invitations to dance.
writing
Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.
writing novel solitary
Novel writing is solitary work.