Quotes about writing
writing done force
You cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you. Stephen King
writing doors stories
Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Your stuff starts out being just for you, in other words, but then it goes out. Once you know what the story is and get it right — as right as you can, anyway — it belongs to anyone who wants to read it. Or criticize it.
writing two hours
I don't spend the day writing. I'll maybe write fresh copy for two hours, and then I'll go back and revise some of it and print what I like and then turn it off.
writing stories able
I'm afraid of all kinds of things. I'm afraid of failing at whatever story I'm writing - that it won't come up for me, or that I won't be able to finish it.
writing creating world
When you write, you want to get rid of the world, don’t you? Of course you do. When you’re writing, you’re creating your own worlds.
writing stuff ifs
If the stuff you're writing is not for yourself, it won't work.
writing people syntax
Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.
writing men adults
I'm seen as somebody who writes for adults because I'm an older man myself. Some of them find me, and a lot of them don't.
writing trying matter
Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it.
writing police add
Must you write complete sentences each time, every time? Perish the thought. If your work consists only of fragments and floating clauses, the Grammar Police aren't going to come and take you away. Even William Strunk, that Mussolini of rhetoric, recognized the delicious pliability of language. "It is an old observation," he writes, "that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric." Yet he goes on to add this thought, which I urge you to consider: "Unless he is certain of doing well, [the writer] will probably do best to follow the rules."
writing college ideas
I can remember as a college student writing stories and novels, some of which ended up getting published and some that didn't. It was like my head was going to burst - there were so many things I wanted to write all at once. I had so many ideas, jammed up. It was like they just needed permission to come out.
writing past fiction
When it comes to the past, everyone writes fiction.
writing character trying
I try to create sympathy for my characters, then turn the monsters loose.
writing pieces favourite
The essay is one of my favourite forms of writing, and I feel like what's inside is really personal, more so than with shorter pieces. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
writing long way
Writing is not the easiest way to make a living. Your work long hours, usually all by yourself. It is not a way to make money. Stephen Ambrose
writing way reader
There are many rules of good writing, but the best way to find them is to be a good reader.
writing three wake-up
But usually I'll wake up and start writing about nine o'clock. I'll probably write for about three hours, and I'll do that over the next month and a half. Stanley Tucci
writing one-day needs
I will direct one day. I need some more life experience before I feel like I can do something like that comfortably. It'd be a feature, it'd be something maybe that I had in writing as well. Stana Katic
writing love-life character
Just because you have superpowers, that doesn't mean your love life would be perfect. I don't think superpowers automatically means there won't be any personality problems, family problems or even money problems. I just tried to write characters who are human beings who also have superpowers. Stan Lee
writing superhero stories
I have a reputation for doing superheroes, but I like all kinds of writing. In fact, hardly anybody knows this, but I've probably written as many humor stories as superhero stories.
writing ideas doe
I'm lucky. I don't have to produce the whole movie. What I've been doing is just coming up with ideas for movies. I write a concept, a treatment, an outline, and if I sell that to a studio, then someone else does the actual production and I go on to another project, although I keep the title executive producer.
writing waiting guardian
I didn’t write 'Guardians of the Galaxy.' I’m not even sure who they all are. I can’t wait to see the movie.
writing thinking stories
Everybody wants to feel that you're writing to a certain demographic because that's good business, but I've never done that ... I tried to write stories that would interest me. I'd say, what would I like to read?... I don't think you can do your best work if you're writing for somebody else, because you never know what that somebody else really thinks or wants.
writing boys thinking
Jack [Kirby] and Joe [Simon] wrote and drew the stories themselves in the beginning and I was just, like, the office boy. But after a while they had more writing than they could handle and I was the only guy around, so they said, "Hey Stan, you think you can write this?" When you're seventeen years old, what do you know? I said, "Sure, I can do it!" And that was it.
writing alive earth
If Shakespeare and Michelangelo were alive today, and if they decided to collaborate on a comic, Shakespeare would write the script and Michelangelo would draw it. How could anybody say that this wouldn't be as worthwhile an artform as anything on earth?
writing giving advice
The only advice anybody can give is, if you wanna be a writer, keep writing. And read all you can, read everything.
writing thinking mafia
I never write about CIA conspiracies or the FBI or mafia or anything like that because I just dont understand that world. But I think I do understand individual human harmfulness. Sophie Hannah
writing play people
As an actor you get categorized by other people, but it's not like I arrange myself into comedy mode or serious mode. If it's good writing you just have to play it true - if it's funny, it's funny. But obviously you don't want it to be amusing if you're playing Hedda Gabler! Sophie Thompson
writing reality care
To be honest I don't really know because I really didn't care when I was writing about mixing up reality with what was not reality. Sophie Marceau
writing acting three
Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous.
writing numbers stalking-me
Someone had my number and they started text-stalking me. I've never replied to them. It was tempting to write back, but I resisted. Sophie Ellis-Bextor
writing concerts old-fashioned
When I write, I'm sort of old-fashioned in the sense that I like to write something that I feel I could just perform alone, obviously, because I do that a lot in concert. Sondre Lerche
writing focus details
When you're in a place, the details you focus on are different than details you focus on when you're writing about it. Tea Obreht