Quotes about writing
writing reality america
You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent. Philip Roth
writing sisterhood skulls
The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.
writing heart mind
Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can. Philip James Bailey
writing thinking lazy
I think e-mail is kind of a cheap way to communicate. It's a lazy way of writing a letter, you know. Peyton Manning
writing should-have beginning-middle-and-end
Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Peter De Vries
writing lasts discouraged
I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.
writing drunk discipline
Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.
writing important happens
Every time you do something that is important, write down what you expect will happen. Peter Drucker
writing cutting thinking
Every first-rate editor I have ever heard of reads, edits and rewrites every word that goes into his publication.... Good editors are not 'permissive'; they do not let their colleagues do 'their thing'; they make sure that everybody does the 'paper's thing.' A good, let alone a great editor is an obsessive autocrat with a whim of iron, who rewrites and rewrites, cuts and slashes, until every piece is exactly the way he thinks it should have been done.
writing years four
For the first four years, no new enterprise produces profits. Even Mozart didn't start writing music until he was four.
writing want firsts
First and foremost, I just want to write comedy. Peter Baynham
writing who-we-are about-family
I write about families. That is who we are. Per Petterson
writing feet way
I rely heavily on rhythm when I write. You should tap your foot when you read it, all the way through.
writing america treatment
Before you approach a production entity or even a potential producer, you should write up a treatment and register your show with the Writers Guild of America. Penelope Spheeris
writing fiction writing-fiction
You learn a lot, writing fiction. Penelope Lively
writing wells
I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.
writing social century
I'm not an historian and I'm not wanting to write about how I perceive the social change over the century as a historian, but as somebody who's walked through it and whose life has been dictated by it too, as all our lives are.
writing fiction mixtures
I'm writing another novel and I know what I'm going to do after, which may be something more like this again, maybe some strange mixture of fiction and non-fiction.
writing character alternatives
The pleasure of writing fiction is that you are always spotting some new approach, an alternative way of telling a story and manipulating characters; the novel is such a wonderfully flexible form.
writing simple people
The secret truth of 'Celebrity Apprentice' is that it isn't very hard... 'Celebrity Apprentice' is easy like junior high is easy. All the arithmetic, the creative writing and the history are super simple, but like junior high, you do that easy work surrounded by people who are full-tilt, hormone-raging bug nutty. Penn Jillette
writing thinking expression
I am very present in my work and my work is somehow an expression of my soul, but at the same time I think that a writer cannot write out of nothing. Paulo Coelho
writing needs share
I write because I need to share my thoughts with the audience.
writing different culture
For a writer you have to be interested in different cultures, different backgrounds. You are not there to write only about your village. You're there to show a bit of your village, but also to understand other villages.
writing use internet
As a writer I have to find platforms that can use this writing process. The internet is one of them.
writing intelligent frustrated
When you write an article about anything, trolls use the comments to attack. They feel frustrated - but haters are losers. It's not good to feed this aspect. It's more intelligent to be constructive.
writing world solitary
Writing is one of the most solitary activities in the world.
writing years enlightenment-and-love
I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.
writing intelligent soul
I only write to understand myself better... I don't try to show how intelligent or how cultivated I am, I just try to share my soul. Sharing is part of life.
writing feelings forget
Instead of noting down things I’m unlikely to forget, I will write a poem. Even if I have never written one before and even if I never do so again, I will at least know that I once had the courage to put my feelings into words.
writing heart advice
I write to empty my mind and to fill my heart.
writing fighting actors
Most writers write haphazardly. The actor is fighting unjustified words all the time. Marlon Brando
writing agony eight
Writing is agony for me. I work at it eight hours every day, hoping to get six pages, but I am satisfied with three. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
writing simple ideas
Hemingway, damn his soul, makes everything he writes terrifically exciting (and incidentally makes all us second-raters seem positively adolescent) by the seemingly simple expedient of the iceberg principle - three-fourths of the substance under the surface. He comes closer that way to retaining the magic of the original, unexpressed idea or emotion, which is always more stirring than any words. But just try and do it!