Quotes about writing
writing keys needs
Find the key emotion; this may be all you need know to find your short story. F. Scott Fitzgerald
writing people flattery
You can stroke people with words.
writing wife paper
Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife. Evelyn Waugh
writing careers healthy
Most writers in the course of their careers become thick-skinned and learn to accept vituperation, which in any other profession would be unimaginably offensive, as a healthy counterpoise to unintelligent praise.
writing curiosity age
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
writing departure metaphor
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
writing dust order
Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.
writing want ifs
It's amazing, if you know what you want to say, how fast it is to write. Evan Davis
writing wish roles
I wish writing was a talent that I had. I've tried. Unfortunately, I'm just not talented in the writing department. But, if I was, I would just write complicated roles for women because there's a lack of them. Eva Mendes
writing ideas want
I was writing short films and I was going through this really, really, really terrible end of a relationship that I didn't want to be going through. It was too much for me to process and all of a sudden I had this idea for my first feature film and I knew right away I had to start writing it. Evan Glodell
writing long mind
I am carrying out my plan, so long formulated, of keeping a journal. What I most keenly wish is not to forget that I am writing for myself alone. Thus I shall always tell the truth, I hope, and thus I shall improve myself. These pages will reproach me for my changes of mind. Eugene Delacroix
writing understood
To be understood a writer has to explain almost everything.
writing theatre hated
I started writing for the theatre because I hated it. Eugene Ionesco
writing thinking play
If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think.
writing mediocrity dangerous
Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
writing people answers
Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.
writing practice people
I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because thats where I practice and write and listen and study. Esperanza Spalding
writing prose-and-poetry needs
We can write the new chapters in a visual language whose prose and poetry will need no translation. Ernst Haas
writing helping born
Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence. Ernest Hemingway
writing doe world
A writer's problem does not change. He himself changes and the world he lives in changes but his problem remains the same. It is always how to write truly and having found what is true, to project it is such a way that it becomes a part of the experience of the person who reads it.
writing way best-way
The best way to become a writer is to go off and write.
writing challenges done
Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done.
writing two long
The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece.
writing years trying
Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour.
writing conversation good-conversation
Good writing is good conversation, only more so.
writing pay typos
Find the best writers, pay them to write, and avoid typos at all costs.
writing trying world
I am trying to make, before I get through, a picture of the whole world--or as much of it as I have seen. Boiling it down always, rather than spreading it out too thin. (On Writing.)
writing want
Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.
writing men done
What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done.
writing perspective giving
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because that gives you perspective
writing past simple
How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him.
writing mean men
To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you.
writing stories
Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can.