Quotes about writing
writing long persons
I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes. Joyce Maynard
writing people ugly
It troubles me that people speak about writing for money as ugly and distasteful.
writing thinking helping
You write to help yourself think better, then think to help yourself write better. Joseph Williams
writing men air-power
Good God! This man should be writing dime novels. Josephus Daniels
writing pages type
I write longhand and I type and I rewrite on the typed pages. Joseph Heller
writing would-be sacred
I could not write about a subject sacred to me because I would be too flippant. Fortunately, there are no subjects sacred to me.
writing media people
The smartest people in Washington are the political reporters. They write about their inferiors.
writing done tempted
When I read something saying I've not done anything as good as 'Catch-22' I'm tempted to reply, 'Who has?'
writing young-writers trouble
Every writer I know has trouble writing.
writing purpose divinity
Life is writing. The sole purpose of mankind is to engrave the thoughts of divinity onto the tablets of nature. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
writing names boredom
German writings attain popularity through a great name, or through personalities, or through good connections, or through effort,or through moderate immorality, or through accomplished incomprehensibility, or through harmonious platitude, or through versatile boredom, or through constant striving after the absolute.
writing past order
In order to be able to write well upon a subject, one must have ceased to be interested in it; the thought which is to be soberlyexpressed must already be entirely past and no longer be one's actual concern.
writing men together
Is it not superfluous to write more than one novel if the writer has not become, say, a new man? Obviously, all the novels of an author not infrequently belong together and are to a certain degree only one novel.
writing people determined
It is not possible to write clearly enough to avoid being misrepresented by people who are sufficiently determined to do so. Karl Popper
writing i-can ifs
If you can write it, I can be it. Karen Black
writing loss perfection
The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes. Julio Cortazar
writing want ifs
When one wants to write, one writes. If one is condemned to write, one writes.
writing one-day together
I have stories that I'd like to maybe one day consider directing, but you need a lot of time to write and put it together. Juliette Binoche
writing
I like writing about friends. Julie Garwood
writing faces comfort
Good writing never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face. Joy Williams
writing wings reader
The writer doesn’t write for the reader. He doesn’t write for himself, either. He writes to serve…something. Somethingness. The somethingness that is sheltered by the wings of nothingness — those exquisite, enveloping, protecting wings.
writing
One writes to find words' meanings.
writing process writing-process
There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.
writing grace doe
Why does the writer write? The writer writes to serve--hopeless ly he writes in the hope that he might serve--not himself and not others, but that great cold elemental grace that knows us.
writing care these-days
It's become fashionable these days to say that the writer writes because he is not whole, he has a wound, he writes to heal it, but who cares if the writer is not whole; of course the writer is not whole, or even particularly well.
writing dark light
A writer loves the dark, loves it, but is always fumbling around in the light.
writing play want
It seemed like the right time. You reach a point when you say to yourself, ‘Do I want to keep doing this?’ There are other things on my plate I want to do — I’ve been writing a play, I’ve been neglecting my standup. Joy Behar
writing men cricket
I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man. Joseph O'Neill
writing want madness
If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.
writing parasites critics
The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write. Joseph Priestley
writing self imagination
For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or will or purpose of the imagination is incomprehensible, unpredictable. Joyce Carol Oates
writing light people
When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation. Justin Cronin
writing iowa fiction
I'm an ecumenical reader, grew up with all sorts of fiction, teach writing, went to the Iowa Writers' Workshop, so my tastes and interests are broad.