Quotes about writing
writing law addresses
It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics. Ernest Hemingway
writing thinking complicated
it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply.
writing thinking should
I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you
writing training dinner
My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.
writing trying underwater
I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.
writing sorrow progress
There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won’t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make.
writing thinking blue
But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
writing each-day comfort
Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all.
writing live-it-up
Live it up so you can write it down.
writing thinking modesty
I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.
writing fate care
All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is.
writing simple thinking
You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.
writing symbols clumsy
Writing is the clumsy attempt to find symbols for wordlessness.
writing stories decided
I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about.
writing cities paris
To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you.
writing goes-on moveable-feast
I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there.
writing people abuse
It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them.
writing doe mystery
There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
writing practice giving
Never write about a place until you're away from it, because it gives you perspective. Immediately after you've seen something you can give a photographic description of it and make it accurate. That's good practice, but it isn't creative writing.
writing feel-better feels
Writing is a hard business...but nothing makes you feel better.
writing rewriting kind
The only kind of writing is rewriting.
writing lines stories
Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
writing hard-times time-keeping
The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it.
writing wish done
I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't.
writing worry moveable-feast
Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now.
writing men wonder
I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?
writing speak should
A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.
writing water waiting
A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill.
writing night knowing
At night, never go to bed without knowing what you'll write tomorrow.
writing wells
Write as well as you can and finish what you start.
writing men degrees
Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten.
writing preparation training
Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.
writing owl may
A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl.