Quotes about writing
writing discipline paper
Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that. Pearl Cleage
writing defeat fear-not
But it is the fear, not the writing that defeats me. Everything is not a masterpiece.
writing mind conscious
I am partly not conscious of structure with my movies, but this is when I am writing. I leave my mind very free, and then I correct it after. Pedro Almodovar
writing reality secret
When I start writing, the first line might come from reality, but the second and the third one, I have to write it. So this is the genesis of my creation. If I want to know what happens, if I want to find out the secret, I have to write it.
writing eight years
Keep writing, because not only does practice improve skill, it gives you more chances to score on the market. I did that for eight years before making my first sale. Piers Anthony
writing would-be firsts
I did not know at first that it would be a series; I discovered after the first novel that I had more to say about it, so I did another. And another, and then the readers demanded yet more.
writing would-be fiction
It would be easier to write a novel without reader input, but I feel the fiction is richer for it.
writing views different
I never do a full outline, and if I did, I would not feel bound to it, because the view from inside a scene can be different from the view outside it. But neither do I just start writing and see what happens; I am far more disciplined than that.
writing years wife
Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to support us.
writing cutting rocks
Here's a secret: fictive text doesn't necessarily flow easily. Most of the time it's more like cutting a highway through a mountain. You just have to keep working with your pick, chipping away at the rock, making slow progress.
writing clothes needs
To write the true natural history of the world, we should need to be able to follow it from within. It would thus appear no longer as an interlocking succession of structural types replacing one another, but as an ascension of inner sap spreading out in a forest of consolidated instincts. Right at its base, the living world is constituted by conscious clothes in flesh and bone. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
writing giving poet
Poets, when they write of love, give themselves and everyone else away! Phyllis Bottome
writing thinking next-day
If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway. If you can think of lots more when you've finished the three pages, don't write it; it'll be that much easier to get going next day. Philip Pullman
writing messages stories
I am a story teller. If I wanted to send a message I would have written a sermon.
writing butterfly bees
Read like a butterfly, write like a bee.
writing flames fire
If you want to write anything that works, you have to go with the grain of your talent, not against it. If your talent is inert and sullen in the face of business or politics...but takes fire at the thought of ghosts and vampires and witches and demons then feed the flames, feed the flames.
writing should-have truth-is
There is time, and there is beyond time. History belongs to time, but truth belongs to what is beyond time. In writing of things as they should have been, you are letting truth into history. You are the word of God.
writing training form
What I do say is that I can write verse, and that the writing of verse in strict form is the best possible training for writing good prose
writing stories way
One of the ways in which writers most show their inventiveness is in the things they tell us about how they write. Generally speaking, I don't like to make a plan before I've written a story. I find it kills the story - deadens it, makes it uninteresting. Unless I'm surprised by something in a story, the reader's not going to be surprised either.
writing inspired wells
A professional writer is someone who writes just as well when they're not inspired as when they are.
writing long people
Long before writing, people were telling each other stories and the audiobook goes all the way back to that tradition.
writing ideas going-away
I don't know where my ideas come from, but I know where they come to. They come to my desk, and if I'm not there, they go away again.
writing thinking luck
If you can't think of what to write, tough luck; write anyway.
writing romance love-to-read
I write romance because I love to read romance. Rachel Gibson
writing ambition creative
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless. Rachel Cusk
writing criticism honest
Honest criticism, I suppose, has its place. But honest writing is infinitely more valuable.
writing contemporary-fiction needs
The writing you allude to is a form of dissent, but it's also expressive of the need to evolve beyond what is turgid and stale in contemporary fiction.
writing average skins
As writers go, I have a skin of average thickness. I am pleased by a good review, disappointed by a bad. None of it penetrates far enough to influence the thing I write next.
writing signatures hours
I have finally perfected my signature. It took hours of practicing I decided early on just to write Pippa, not Middleton. Pippa Middleton
writing sitcom
The strangest thing about writing a sitcom, is never knowing if it will become anything but words on a page.
writing names profound
I have a theory that you can make any sentence seem profound by writing the name of a dead philosopher at the end of it. Plato
writing people missing
Irony ... may be defined as what people miss. Julian Barnes
writing thinking ideas
I'm one of those writers who started off writing novels and came to writing short stories later, partly because I didn't have the right ideas, partly because I think that short stories are more difficult. I think learning to write short stories also made me attracted toward a paring down of the novel form.