Ernest Gaines Quotes

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.

Ernest Gaines

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• Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Nothing

• I love writing songs.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Writing
  • Love
  • Songs

• Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Life
  • Writing
  • Yourself

• I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.

  

  J. A. Jance
  • Time
  • Long
  • Writing

• I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that doesn't have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular, although many men are born upright.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Writing
  • Man

• There's a rule of writing: if everything is funny, nothing is funny; if everything is sad, nothing is sad. You want that contrast.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Writing
  • Funny
  • Sad

• You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Writing
  • Feeling
  • Singing

• Book sales and teens reading is always a fantastic thing, but we should also be celebrating and consuming the huge wealth of U.K. and U.K.-based writing and illustrating talent. Authors such as Charlie Higson, Darren Shan, Holly Smale, Tanya Byrne, Catherine Johnson, Sophie Mckenzie, to name but a few.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Reading

• There aren't a lot of 'Aha!' moments in writing.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Writing
  • Moments
  • Lot

• I would wake up really early and go into the hotel bathroom, put a towel over the toilet, and put my laptop there. I'd put my headphones on and just write. And so now when I do writing sessions, and I am stuck on a part, or I can't figure out a chorus, I'm just like, 'Give me a second,' and I'll go to that bathroom.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Writing
  • Part
  • Hotel

• Yoga helps me with a composed and serene state of mind, which is good for writing.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Mind

• I'm still very much a believer in the spontaneity of certain kinds of writing. But then you have to eventually, when you're writing a long play, make adjustments along the way - all kinds of adjustments.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Play

• The novel is a seduction; a reader has to be seduced.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Novel
  • Seduction
  • Seduced

• You know, sometimes I get moments of inspiration when I'm writing something and then the task seems so daunting that it just kind of scares me away.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Writing
  • Inspiration
  • Task

• I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Unhappy

• I don't necessarily set out to teach or say anything in particular in my writing. Morals and themes come out as I'm telling the tale.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Writing
  • Teach
  • Morals

• When I'm writing a book, sentence by sentence, I'm not thinking theoretically. I'm just trying to work out the story from inside the characters I've got.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• Research to me is as important, or more important, than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.

  

  Leon Uris
  • Important
  • Writing
  • Book

• Stop thinking about writing as art. Think of it as work. If you’re an artist, whatever you do is going to be art. If you’re not an artist, at least you can do a good day’s work.

  

  Paddy Chayefsky
  • Good
  • Work
  • Thinking

• My father did shape me. He didn't drive because he had one leg, and for years I never drove. I had no mobility.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • Father

• A profession that we are a nation "under God" is identical, for establishment clause purposes, to a profession that we are a nation "under Jesus," a nation "under Vishnu," a nation "under Zeus," or a nation "under no god," because none of these professions can be neutral with respect to religion.

  

  Alfred Goodwin
  • Religion
  • Profession

• I hate violence, yes I do. It's kind of a dilemma, huh?.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Hate
  • Kind
  • Violence

• It was quite natural - the first day I got to the set I was really nervous, but I loved the whole experience.

  

  Charlotte Church
  • Experience

• I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.

  

  Ernest Gaines
  • Writing
  • Novel