Quotes about writing
writing ideas instruments
Write as often as possible, not with the idea at once of getting into print, but as if you were learning an instrument. J. B. Priestley
writing white perspective
I'm half-black, half-white, so I basically put it like this: I can fit in anywhere. That's why I write so many stories from so many different perspectives, because I've seen so many. J. Cole
writing heart school
College isn't in everyone's hearts. I am living proof, though, that school doesn't mess up your plans. It gives you more experiences to write about.
writing laughing trying
I never write jokes, I just try to make myself laugh. J. B. Smoove
writing trying may
I write not for your farthing, but to try / How I your farthing writers, may outvie. Isaac Watts
writing beer illustration
As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as uniform a liquor as ye chaos was. If beer be poured into it & ye mixture let stand till it be dry, the surface of ye curdled substance will appear as rugged & mountanous as the Earth in any place. Isaac Newton
writing giving connections
The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing Isabel Allende
writing mystery possibility
I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.
writing air creative
Everyone has a story, the air is full of stories. The creative process is mysterious, I don't know why it is that suddenly a theme will take hold of me and refuse to leave me in peace until I investigate it and write it.
writing ideas stories
Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.
writing world sometimes
What happens in the world affects me. Sometimes, that's part of the writing.
writing stories ends
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.
writing years i-have-learned
I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.
writing choices calling
Writing is a calling, not a choice.
writing exercise mirrors
A memoir forces me to stop and remember carefully. It is an exercise in truth. In a memoir, I look at myself, my life, and the people I love the most in the mirror of the blank screen. In a memoir, feelings are more important than facts, and to write honestly, I have to confront my demons.
writing joy complaining
No complaining about how hard it is to write, we are all so, so lucky to write, to sit down, inside, and write words on paper. There is no greater freedom, no greater good, nothing that brings more joy.
writing silence able
After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.
writing impact stronger
I have more freedom when I write fiction, but my memoirs have had a much stronger impact on my readers. Somehow the 'message,' even if I am not even aware that there is one, is conveyed better in this form.
writing names forgotten
Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.
writing two three
The first two, three, four weeks are wasted. I just show up in front of the computer. Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too. If she doesn't show up invited, eventually she just shows up.
writing dry-up soul
If I didn't write my soul would dry up and die.
writing exercise longing
Writing is a constant exercise in longing.
writing space use
From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.
writing reality confusion
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!
writing men white-man
If you write nonfiction, a historical account of what really happened, first of all, it's always White men who do that and you don't have the voices that are really interesting to me, of the people who are not sheltered by the big umbrella of the establishment.
writing too-much persons
If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving...
writing worry making-love
Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.
writing forgotten should
Write what should not be forgotten.
writing muse shows
Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.
writing unity doe
Could we say that the short short is to other kinds of fiction somewhat as the lyric is to other kinds of poetry? The lyric does not seek meaning through extension, it accepts the enigmas of confinement. It strives for a rapid unity of impression, an experience rendered in its wink of immediacy. And so too with the short short. Irving Howe
writing suggestions anecdotes
Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.
writing wish want
How much there is I want to do! I always feel that I haven't time to accomplish what I wish. I want to read much. I wanted to write a great deal. I want to make money. Irving Fisher
writing one-thing
I am one thing, my writings are another. Friedrich Nietzsche