Quotes about writing
writing gossip columnists
It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business. Louis Kronenberger
writing water flow
You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow. Louis L'Amour
writing dancer
The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.
writing
I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.
writing ideas water
If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.
writing skills stories
Somethings get easier. You get more confident in your abilities and you learn what kind of stories sell and what don't. But your standards kept going up with your skills, the business aspect of writing grows more complicated, and it becomes really hard to maintain any semblance of a balanced life the longer you're at this. No matter what level you're at, writing is always difficult. Lori Wilde
writing age balls
Ball points belong to their age. They make everyone write alike. Lorraine Hansberry
writing people mind
I do have people in mind when I write. I don't know precisely who they are, however, or how many of them there are. Lorrie Moore
writing
Most things good for writing are bad for life.
writing thinking identity
Better to think of writing, of what one does, as an activity, rather than an identity to keep the calling a verb rather than a noun.
writing limits wonder
Begin to wonder what you do write about. Or if you have anything to say. Or even if there is such a thing as a thing to say. Limit these thoughts to no more than ten minutes a day; like sit-ups, they can make you thin
writing sometimes novel
Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.
writing causes sometimes
What do I do when writing isn't going well? Well, I don't write - which is symptom, cure, and cause. And then sometimes I just tell myself, as I'm writing, "I'll fix it later." And sometimes it's true, I do.
writing night able
To write a short story, you have to be able to stay up all night.
writing gossip people
People love gossip because it's slightly removed from actuality. It's a very literary thing... You can hear a great story, and it turns out that it's largely not true. Fiction writing is like gossip. It's not malicious gossip, but it's gossip.
writing thinking feet
There was the usual dreaminess, I suppose. Also a shyness that caused me-and others-to notice that I could express myself better by writing than by speaking. This is typical of many writers, I think. What is a drawback in childhood is an asset to a literary life. Not being fluent on one's feet sends one to the page and a habit is born.
writing eye air
If I had a staff of even one person, or could tolerate a small amphetamine habit, or entertain the possibility of weekly blood transfusions, or had been married to Vera Nabokov, or had a housespouse of even minimal abilities, a literary life would be easier to bring about. (In my mind I see all your male readers rolling their eyes. But your female ones - what is that? Are they nodding in agreement? Are their fists in the air?)
writing years creating
I don’t go back and look at my early work, because the last time I did, many years ago, it left me cringing. If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.
writing creating records
If one publishes, then one is creating a public record of Learning to Write.
writing stories film
A short story is a love affair, a novel is a marriage. A short story is a photograph; a novel is a film.
writing way
Every writer has to find their own way into writing. Margaret Mahy
writing thinking tabloids
They hunt you. It's terrible... They never think about how the person feels about what they write. Michael Jackson
writing giving world
I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses.
writing names apples
I'll never forget that little apple box I stood on because I couldn't reach the microphone. My name was written on it and it's sitting at Diana Ross's house now. She has all my little doodling papers I would draw and write.
writing people negative
People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.
writing people world
I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully - I love that.
writing dancing performing
I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create.
writing keys knees
The key to being a wonderful writer is not to write. You just get out of the way. Leave room for God to walk in the room. And when I write something that I know is right, I get on my knees and say 'thank you.'
writing space guy
Ron Moore. He was the guy that on our show and Deep Space Nine wrote the best Klingon episodes. He wrote great episodes in general but he wrote the best Klingon episodes. I always could tell when he was going to write a Klingon episode because he was able to grow a beard really quick and I'd see him with the beard, like a Worf beard, and I go "Ah, Klingon episode coming up!" and he goes "Oh yeah." Michael Dorn
writing optimistic thinking
I think writing is, by definition, an optimistic act. Michael Cunningham
writing should feels
A writer should always feel like he's in over his head
writing machines use
When I sit down in front of a Windows machine, I can't write; when I sit down in front of my Mac, I can write. So I only use Macs. Michael Crichton
writing past thinking
We think we know what we are doing. We have always thought so. We never seem to acknowledge that we have been wrong in the past, and so might be wrong in the future. Instead, each generation writes off earlier errors as the result of bad thinking by less able minds - and then confidently embarks on fresh errors of its own.