Quotes about writing
writing stuff desperate
We're not on a desperate mission to write chart compatible stuff. Stephen Malkmus
writing firsts wells
To write well it is first necessary to have something to say. Stephen Leacock
writing paper down-and
Writing is not hard. Just get paper and pencil, sit down, and write as it occurs to you. The writing is easy-it's the occurring that's hard.
writing ideas simplicity
Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult.
writing bathroom ifs
When you sit down to write, write. Don't do anything else except go to the bathroom, and only do that if it absolutely cannot be put off. Stephen King
writing telepathy
What is writing? Writing is telepathy.
writing stories
When you write you tell yourself a story. When you rewrite you take out everything that is NOT the story.
writing details description
For me, good description usually consists of a few well-chosen details that will stand for everything else.
writing character thinking
I would say plotting is the most difficult thing for me. Characterization is only hard because sometimes I feel I get so interested in it that I want to talk too much about the characters and that slows the story down. So I say, "Hey, people want to find out what's going to happen next, they don't want to listen to you spout off about this or that person." But I think even the bad guy deserves to tell his side of the story.
writing light paper
If I can get it down on paper without puking all over the word processor, then as far as I'm concerned, it's fit to see the light of day.
writing thinking bullshit
I am, when you stop to think of it, a member of a fairly select group: the final handful of American novelists who learned to read and write before they learned to eat a daily helping of video bullshit.
writing get-better
The only wat to get better at writing is to write. And read.
writing men order
A friend came to visit James Joyce one day and found the great man sprawled across his writing desk in a posture of utter despair. James, what’s wrong?' the friend asked. 'Is it the work?' Joyce indicated assent without even raising his head to look at his friend. Of course it was the work; isn’t it always? How many words did you get today?' the friend pursued. Joyce (still in despair, still sprawled facedown on his desk): 'Seven.' Seven? But James… that’s good, at least for you.' Yes,' Joyce said, finally looking up. 'I suppose it is… but I don’t know what order they go in!
writing succeed rudeness
If you expect to succeed as a writer, rudeness should be the second-to-least of your concerns. The least of all should be polite society and what it expects. If you intend to write as truthfully as you can, your days as a member of polite society are numbered, anyway.
writing careers littles
That's something that is almost accidental at the beginning of a career, but the more you write, the more trained you are to recognize the little signals.
writing imagination world
Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.
writing thinking stuff
Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.
writing thinking fans
I'm not a big fan of psychoanalysis: I think if you have mental problems what you need are good pills. But I do think that if you have thinks that bother you, things that are unresolved, the more that you talk about them, write about them, the less serious they become.
writing simple more-time
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
writing thinking people
People seem to think there's a magic formula to writing, i just write 1 word at a time.
writing long answers
Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Anything at all .... as long as you tell the truth.
writing fiction paragraph
The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.
writing simple complexes
Writers write. That's all it is. It is as simple, and as complex, as that.
writing secret done
The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.
writing trying paint
If you write (or paint or dance or sculpt or sing, I suppose), someone will try to make you feel lousy about it, that's all.
writing remember novel
There's one novel, Cujo, that I barely remember writing at all.
writing trying caviar
I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar.
writing reality littles
Writing is like a little hole in reality that you can go through and you can get out and you can be someplace else for a while.
writing fiction stories
The object of fiction isn't grammatical correctness but to make the reader welcome and then tell a story.... Writing is seduction. Good talk is part of seduction.
writing roots airborne
I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing
writing roots magic
I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him.
writing very-good
Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.
writing hard-work dedication
The first is that good writing consists of mastering the fundamentals (vocabulary, grammar, the elements of style) and then filling the third level of your toolbox with the right instruments. The second is that while it is impossible to make a competent writer out of a bad writer, and while is equally impossible to make a great writer out of a good one, it is possible, with lots of hard work, dedication, and timely help, to make a good writer out of a merely competent one