Quotes about writing
writing long afternoon
I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to. Robert Caro
writing bed wells
If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled.
writing tired trying
I write from seven to about noon. I used to try to write longer, but I read and I found that I was always getting myself tired by working in the afternoon and then I was just throwing out what I wrote in the afternoon, so writing then was counterproductive.
writing rewriting good-writing
Good writing is essentially rewriting. Roald Dahl
writing stories fifty
By the time I am nearing the end of a story, the first part will have been reread and altered and corrected at least one hundred and fifty times. I am suspicious of both facility and speed. Good writing is essentially rewriting. I am positive of this.
writing important modesty
When writing about oneself, one must strive to be truthful. Truth is more important than modesty.
writing two people
Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
writing cities police
I don't write police stories, per se, but I usually write about areas that are very panoramic, like Harlem, or the Lower East Side, or a small urban city like Jersey City. Richard Price
writing stories ends
If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing.
writing office finished
I have offices all over the place and I avoid work everywhere. I don't like to write - I like to be finished.
writing rapper support
Support me... If you don't understand me don't write about me Tupac Shakur
writing mind blind
Before I write I let my mind go blind and let the lord do his thing.
writing guitar piano
Anyone who writes knows that ultimately the majority of your time is spent alone in a room with a piano or a guitar, no matter what the project is. Trey Anastasio
writing eye space
Once I started writing all the time and interacting with poets, I made a conscious decision to identify myself as a poet. It's funny how much a single word can provide focus and direction. As soon as I claimed that identity, I started clearing more and more space for poetry in my life and applying poetic tools to other areas of my life. The world became a different place, and I witnessed it through different kinds of eyes. Tracy K. Smith
writing august should-have
After the success of 'August,' there were people saying I should change my life. And maybe I should have bought a yacht and traveled the world instead of returning to Steppenwolf to act in and write plays. But I'm from the Midwest, and that's what we do: We go back to work. Tracy Letts
writing next hell
I never know what the hell I'm writing about, I never know what the next thing I'm writing about is, I never have a plan.
writing adjectives care
Younger women tend to be busier, wearing more layers and more make-up. I don't know if it's because older women are more confident, or just that we don't care any more. But that pared-down approach is the same with the sentences I write; I take out adjectives and adverbs and keep the description to a minimum. Tracy Chevalier
writing thinking interesting
Don't write about what you know - write about what you're interested in. Don't write about yourself - you aren't as interesting as you think.
writing done copying
The hardest thing was learning to write. I was 13, and the only writing I had done was for Social Studies. It consisted of copying passages right out of the encyclopedia Tracy Kidder
writing thinking people
People say you cant teach writing, but I think thats nonsense.
writing thinking shows
I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.
writing revision prose
Writing is revision. All prose responds to work.
writing important territory
The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes. Van Wyck Brooks
writing weight way
I have obsessed about my weight in some sort of way all my life. I used to write in my journal what I weighed every day. Valerie Bertinelli
writing airports paper
So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport. Upamanyu Chatterjee
writing fake conspiracy
Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I'm involved, in all of my writings, the theoretical ones as well as the novels, with the production of fakes. Umberto Eco
writing poet elizabethan
Once you reach your fifties, you have to stop being interested in the present and write only on Elizabethan poets.
writing names ideas
I started to write [ The Name of the Rose ] in March of 1978, moved by a seminal idea. I wanted to poison a monk.
writing littles too-much
Twenty to one offend more in writing too much than too little. Roger Ascham
writing listening say-anything
They [candidates] say, "I don't want to say anything controversial." And so nobody covers them. Then they blame the journalists, saying "Why don't they write down what I said?" In congressional races, 90 percent of the time the answer is, "Because you are boring and you don't have anything that makes me interested in listening to you. Why the heck should somebody write it down? There's nothing here worth hearing." Roger Ailes
writing waiting permission
Start writing sooner. Don't wait for permission. Don't hesitate. Robin Hobb
writing people want
Some people say 'I want to be a writer,' and some people say, 'I want to write.'
writing unique ideas
Don't listen to people who tell you that very few people get published and you won't be one of them. Don't listen to your friend who says you are better that Tolkien and don't have to try any more. Keep writing, keep faith in the idea that you have unique stories to tell, and tell them.