Quotes about writing
writing doors water
So okay - there you are in your room with the shade down and the door shut and the plug pulled out of the base of the telephone. You've blown up your TV and committed yourself to a thousand words a day, come hell or high water. Now comes the big question: What are you going to write about? And the equally big answer: Anything you damn well want. Stephen King
writing trying salami
I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami.
writing space stories
Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story.
writing character voice
It's dialogue that gives your cast their voices, and is crucial in defining their characters.
writing important stories
The important question has nothing to do with whether the talk in your story is sacred or profane; the only question is how it rings on the page and in your ear. If you expect it to ring true, then you must talk yourself. Even more important, you must shut up and listen to others talk.
writing way lifeless
Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.
writing mood
I started writing seriously when I was about 12.I am always in the mood.
writing garden self
The idea that the creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. ... Substance abusing writers are just substance abusers — common garden variety drunks and druggies, in other words. Any claims that the drugs and alcohol are necessary to dull a finer sensibility are just the usual self-serving bullshit. I've heard alcoholic snowplow drivers make the same claim, that they drink to still the demons.
writing snakes scare
I write about things that scare me. I've never written a snake story in my life. I myself have never written a story about snakes because they don't scare me. I write about rats because they scare the hell out of me.
writing thinking
I write to find out what I think.
writing order looks
By writing a horror novel where this inexplicable disorder takes over in our ordered lives, you make order look better by comparison. But below that, there's a part of us that responds to the Who bashing their instruments to pieces on the stage. There's a very primitive part that says, "Do it some more."
writing player rocks
When it comes to rock music, I'm not much of a player, but I do have entry-level chops. I'm more knowledgeable as a listener, and Revival gave me a way to write about rock and roll without being preachy or boring.
writing remember divine
All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.
writing thinking phobia
I think we tend to write out our phobias.
writing language enough
I'd like to learn French well enough to write in that language.
writing advice use
There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.
writing thought-provoking thesaurus
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
writing creating house
I have never felt like I was creating anything. For me, writing is like walking through a desert and all at once, poking up through the hardpan, I see the top of a chimney. I know there's a house under there, and I'm pretty sure that I can dig it up if I want. That's how I feel. It's like the stories are already there. What they pay me for is the leap of faith that says: 'If I sit down and do this, everything will come out okay.'
writing maps pages
I don't really map anything out. I just let it happen [while writing]. But once it happens, it's always there. If it's laid, it's played. If I get to page 300 and it's not working, I junk it.
writing character
I identify with the characters very closely. At the same time that I`m outside, writing, I`m also inside, experiencing, and it can be very unsettling.
writing divine humans
To write is human, to edit is divine.
writing wish fiction
Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.
writing pages blank-pages
you must not come lightly to the blank page.
writing dark kissing
A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.
writing two way
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.
writing should-have voice
No, it's not a very good story - its author was too busy listening to other voices to listen as closely as he should have to the one coming from inside.
writing school home
I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
writing caring tools
If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
writing answers one-word
When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'
writing school people
I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writing. But to this day I distrust anybody who thought school was a good time. Anybody.
writing formulas
Rewrite formula: 2nd Draft = 1st Draft - 10%.
writing sisterhood skulls
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
writing thinking might
It was always a pleasure to write. I can never think of a time when I just hacked something out to fulfil a contract or meet a deadline. I might have hacked things out, but it was always stuff I loved.