Writing Quotes

• Seem to be telling this, but really telling that. Three-dimensional writing, like three-dimensional chess. Nabokov was the other master of that. You could learn something from Nabokov on every page he ever wrote.

  

  Donald E. Westlake
  • Writing
  • Chess

• It didn't occur to me that my books would be widely read at all, and that enabled me to write anything I wanted to. And even once I realized that they were being read, I still wrote as if I were writing in secret. That's how one has to write anyway--in secret.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Write
  • Secret
  • Books

• One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!

  

  Oliver D. Crisp
  • Good
  • Tradition
  • Very Good

• In writing a novel about George Sand, I hoped to present her as the talented, beguiling, complicated and occasionally infuriating woman I think she was, but I hope, too, that readers will enjoy the people she surrounded herself with.

  

  Elizabeth Berg
  • People
  • She
  • Hope

• I know that one of the things that I really did to push myself was to write more formal poems, so I could feel like I was more of a master of language than I had been before. That was challenging and gratifying in so many ways. Then with these new poems, I've gone back to free verse, because it would be easy to paint myself into a corner with form. I saw myself becoming more opaque with the formal poems than I wanted to be. It took me a long time to work back into free verse again. That was a challenge in itself. You're always having to push yourself.

  

  Barbara Hambly
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Challenges

• I don't think there's any topic a writer should feel afraid of tackling just because it has already been discussed. If you feel you have a fresh perspective and an understanding of a certain emotional truth, it's always worth writing.

  

  Jami Attenberg
  • Truth
  • Understanding
  • Emotional

• Women have been writing strong women characters for a long time - hello, Maxine Hong Kingston! - it's just taken mainstream comics a really long while to catch up.

  

  Marjorie Liu
  • Up
  • Time
  • Long

• People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself. Meanwhile, they'll keep writing and you'll have hanged yourself.

  

  John Gardner
  • People
  • Difficult
  • Impossible

• I grew up writing songs in my room on GarageBand, and I would make the beats just out of layering my vocals over and over again. Very Imogen Heap-inspired.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • Up
  • Inspired
  • Songs

• Everyone is free to write and say whatever he likes, without any restrictions.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • Writing
  • Likes
  • Restriction

• As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

  

  Amy Sherman-Palladino
  • Great
  • Want
  • Actors

• There's a lot of writing in television that can sound like it's taken out of a package, and the way to get around that is to not allow yourself to deliver it that way.

  

  Ben Bass
  • Writing
  • Taken

• I'm pretty social so it's hard for me to find solitude, but I need to have solitude to write.

  

  Catie Curtis
  • Needs
  • Hard
  • Social

• Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Book
  • Wish
  • Form

• When I'm writing the poem, I feel like I have to close my eyes. I don't mean literally, but you invite a kind of blindness, and that's the birth of the poem.

  

  Eileen Myles
  • Writing
  • Eyes

• I have no interest in writing, generally speaking, about America at all - even if it does continue to terrify me.

  

  Peter Carey
  • Writing
  • America

• My first TV job was on an episode of 'Hannah Montana'... Since then, I've been fortunate to end up on shows that are just such a high quality, where the writing and material is incredible.

  

  Alison Brie
  • Up
  • Job
  • High

• I think our songwriting has evolved. We can show that we have continued to branch out and do different stuff and incorporate different instruments. When it comes to writing, I think that we have pushed the envelope. We can do whatever we want to try - a longer song or a shorter song, some different instruments, some piano, an intro with just vocals, something that's scathing. Whatever. However we feel the song should go, that's what we will do. With that mindset, I think it's made us better writers.

  

  John R. Bush Armored Saint
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• I just finished writing an essay about William Maxwell, an American writer whose work I admire very much.

  

  Donna Tartt
  • Work
  • Writing
  • American

• I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.

  

  Sara Zarr
  • Long
  • Voice
  • Class

• I write plays because dialogue is the most respectable way of contradicting myself.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Writing
  • Dialogue
  • Contradicting

• Words are both my vocation and my avocation - reading, writing, editing, teaching.

  

  Christina Baker Kline
  • Writing
  • Words
  • Reading

• When I submitted samples, I had only written stories to give myself something to draw. I was told, "The art is good, but not quite professional yet. But, I like the writing." I've been a writer for almost a half a century. It's very cool.

  

  Len Wein
  • Good
  • Art
  • Cool

• There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.

  

  Alan Dean Foster
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Future

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