Quotes about writing
writing years two
You can write a short story in two hours. Two hours a day, you have a novel in a year Ray Bradbury
writing four pages
Write 1000 words a day. That's only about four pages, but force yourself to do it. Put your finger down your throat and throw up. That's what writing's all about.
writing dies
Not to write, for many of us, is to die.
writing passion names
I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing at the novel, I realized that Montag is named after a paper manufacturing company. And Faber, of course, is a maker of pencils! What a sly thing my subconscious was, to name them thus. And not tell me!
writing trying stories
Don’t try to write a novel. Write short stories and then figure out how to connect them.
writing gun knives
Melt all the guns, I thought, break the knives, burn the guillotines-and the malicious will still write letters that kill.
writing littles
A day without writing was a little death.
writing home night
Lone at night, when I was twelve years old, I looked at the planet Mars and I said, 'Take me home!' And the planet Mars took me home, and I never came back. So I've written every day in the last 75 years. I've never stopped writing.
writing thinking looks
If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.
writing skulls way
How to feel your way toward something honest, hidden under the trapdoor on the top of your skull.
writing exercise self
I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing.
writing cutting thinking
When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.
writing
I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.
writing love-is secret-love
Love is easy, and I love writing.
writing writing-every-day
I started writing every day. I never stopped.
writing years long
When I finished [writing it], I was crying. I knew at long last, after ten years of trying, I had written something good.
writing two verbs
Writing can be described in two verbs: Throw up and clean up.
writing thinking relax
Write. Don't think. Relax.
writing typewriters computer
I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer.
writing character fake
Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little character work. It's very dangerous. You'll never learn to write.
writing past reality
Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present. You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them.
writing people intuition
People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way.
writing acceptance rejection
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
writing discovery way
When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What a great thing to learn: Don't listen to anyone else, and always go your own way.
writing breathing stories
Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me; it is my life.
writing waiting way
You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!
writing quality produce
Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.
writing mind stories
You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves.
writing worry people
The trouble with a lot of people who try to write is they intellectualize about it. That comes after. The intellect is given to us by God to test things once they’re done, not to worry about things ahead of time.
writing effort bird
What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping.
writing writers-block writers-block
Just write every day of your life. Read intensely.
writing forever lasts
The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.
writing culture treasure
Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.