Quotes about writing
writing littles might
I wouldn't write anything autobiographical. If you've lived a life like Laurence of Arabia, it might be a consideration, but otherwise it's a little bit vain, it seems to me. James Lee Burke
writing home mail
You do it a day at a time. You write as well as you can, you put it in the mail, you leave it under submission, you never leave it at home.
writing crafts masters
Writing really is a difficult craft and there are many parts to master. James Johnson
writing men self
The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street. James Jones
writing rewards glory
Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard. James J. Corbett
writing imagination people
Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations. John Sandford
writing
My writing is sort of Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler. John Searles
writing
We've already established whoever is writing us is an asshole. John Scalzi
writing people boredom
As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with my writing. If I get bored writing something, I pity the people who will then try to read it.
writing brain different
Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.
writing pigs guy
But compared to writing a novel, where you can be God, I did the Bay of Pigs invasion in six pages once, and there were 50,000 guys with boots that I didn't have to pay, and all those extras; we didn't have to pay them. John Sayles
writing people littles
As a screenwriter I'm often writing in genres where there have been thousands of movies; whereas when I direct movies they tend to be in between genres. They tend to have a little bit of a genre to them, but they're really about the people, and they're people we haven't met before.
writing average two
For me the writing, when I'm going to direct it myself, is really just the first draft, and I don't change it very much; I only change it on average about two lines per movie.
writing next-day roger
If you write a movie for Roger Corman, it's going to get made. You saw it almost the next day.
writing thinking stories
I think I got spoiled and that writing a short story and getting it published, or writing a novel and getting it published, you pretty much get to do the first, second and third draft yourself without a whole lot of interference.
writing paper four
I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes. John Philip Sousa
writing character past
When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant. John Phillips
writing mirrors self
Since September 11, the Mirror has reached back to its roots, and decided, it seems, to be something of its old self again. I received a call asking if I would write for it again, which I've done. It's a pleasure to be able to do that. It's become an important antidote to a media that is, most of it, supportive of the establishment, some of it quite rabidly rightwing. The Mirror is breaking ranks, and that's good news. John Pilger
writing preacher knows
I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both. John Piper
writing stuff scripts
I won't work on anyone's else's script. I won't write for anyone else. I write my own stuff and make that when the time is right. Martin McDonagh
writing thinking games
I think if you're writing a play, it should be its own end game; you'll never get to do a good one unless you know it's not a blueprint for a film; you're not going to get the action right and the story right.
writing beer loss
In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything. Martin Luther
writing appearance good-work
Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith.... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness.
writing creative program
Poetry is something that happens in universities, in creative writing programs or in English departments. Mark Strand
writing want stuff
There's a certain point, when you're writing autobiographical stuff, where you don't want to misrepresent yourself. It would be dishonest.
writing thinking people
A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.
writing humor hard
It's very hard to write humor.
writing attention prove
Life makes writing poetry necessary to prove I really was paying attention.
writing numbers people
The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.
writing character people
When they do bring on new people, it's good for the show. It's like getting a new toy. The writers enjoy it because it's a whole new character that they can write for, one that they aren't used to writing for. They can try different things. Mark-Paul Gosselaar
writing thinking interesting
The pleasure that I take in writing gets me interested in writing a poem. It's not a statement about what I think anybody else should be doing. For me, it's an interesting tension between interior and exterior. Marilyn Hacker
writing creative literature
Given the devaluation of literature and of the study of foreign languages per se in the United States, as well as the preponderance of theory over text in graduate literature studies, creative writing programs keep literature courses populated.
writing giving energy
Good writing gives energy, whatever it is about.