Writing Quotes
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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.
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I hope you will understand my hesitation in writing to one whom I admire as the greatest representative of a philosophy to which I want to dedicate my whole life.
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Over the years, I have been a house painter, farm worker, paste-up artist, Easter Bunny, pizza delivery person, homeless shelter staff member, and counselor for adults and kids with mental illness - I quit my last real job in 2000 to work on writing full-time.
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What's needed in this case is conscious and serious practice in hearing, and using, and being used by, other people's voices.
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A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals: pathological!
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I've been writing full-time since about 1984 - mostly magazine features and columns.
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Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.
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I tend to write things and review it afterwards and realise what comes out. I very rarely ever write something and have to take it back.
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When I went to college I took a creative writing class and decided in a week to be a writer.
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I was a Social Science major in college, with an emphasis in secondary education. I took as many courses on the American colonial era and westward expansion as I could. This turned out to be wonderful preparation for writing fantasy novels.
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I think that it's worthwhile to explore the ways in which you write the person that's writing your plays as opposed to simply assuming that it's all a natural process and there's no design in it. Because your public persona is designed, to a certain extent, and you can have fun and profit at various times doing that.
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I like writing songs. I like the camarderie of the and. I like touring. I love playing bass. And then there's free beer.
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When I was writing about Gotham in 'Broken City,' I was writing about Chicago. I just substituted the names.
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Be your own teacher. Let life write your textbook.
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Write to me frequently & the longest letters possible; never mind whether you have facts or no to communicate; fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
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The writing process, it's too mysterious to try and describe.
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Whenever I write lyrics, in the back of my mind I always see a guy driving to work, driving to a really bad job, one of those horrible institutions, or one of those low squat buildings in Los Angeles. I write with that person in my mind.
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One of the great pleasures in writing 'The Dream Lover' was learning about some of the real people who populated George Sand's life. What a cast of characters! And what a pleasure to recreate them upon the page!
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Study Chairman Mao's writings, follow his teachings and act according to his instructions.
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I can't recommend technical writing as a day job for fiction writers because it's going to be hard to write all day and then come home and write fiction.
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I used to be something of an obsessive when it came to research. When I first began writing the Thorne novels, I would drive to a set of traffic lights in the early hours of the morning to make sure you could turn left. I thought it was important to get even the most trivial details right.
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Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.
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I would be involved with music whether I had a career or not. I'm always going to be writing songs and recording them.
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It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.
